Word: bushed
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When he last ran for President, Bill Clinton fixed on the nation's drug problem to blast George Bush savagely. "Bush confuses being tough with being smart," Clinton told me in 1992. "You can't get serious about crime without getting serious about drugs. Bush thinks locking up addicts instead of treating them, or teaching kids to resist using them in the first place, is clever politics. Maybe so, but it's lousy policy and the consequences of his cravenness could ruin...
From there, Clinton pleaded passionately for treatment on demand and drug education for all. Under Bush, two-thirds of the $13.1 billion federal antidrug budget went for interdiction and law enforcement, only one-third for education and treatment. "I'll invert that ratio," Clinton promised...
Stung by last week's survey, the Administration's spin machine countered with a three-pronged strategy. First, conveniently forgetting Clinton's own Bush bashing, the President's troops slammed the G.O.P. for "politicizing" a problem affecting "all our kids." They then repeatedly carped that the increase in drug use began before Clinton took office. And, shrewdly, the Administration deflected focus on the drug report by leaking its forthcoming (and welcome) attack on tobacco companies for hooking children on cigarettes...
...born-again Christian and am deeply sorry for this incident [in which Perot said that due to a Republican Party plot to embarrass his family he was dropping out of the campaign]. Yes, there was in fact a very involved conspiracy to remove President George Bush from the White House, and yes, I was one of the many people involved in that episode. I admit my wrongdoing and accept full responsibility for my own actions. But there are errors both in Posner's book and in the article Time published. I publicly wish to again admit my involvement...
...said. He looked less like Bill Clinton. I'm not sure I believe the plastic-surgery talk. There are any number of American men who, with some adjustment of hairstyle and accent, could more or less pass for Bill Clinton. The same was true of George Bush. James Carville is another matter...