Word: gloatingly
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...forget the transgressions, because he "understands that transitions can be times of difficulty and strong emotion." (Loosely translated, that means: "I have no interest in getting sucked into a debate over who has precipitated more undignified pranks in his lifetime.") Instead, GOP officials are taking this moment to gloat, shaking their heads sadly whenever the "incidents" are mentioned, and sagely murmuring that we could hardly expect any better from the likes of the Clinton family...
...does Bush want to give Clinton one more occasion to gloat. Each time Clinton eludes the noose, he practically nominates himself for a Nobel Prize for defending the Constitution. As he told Esquire magazine, "They"--we all know who "they" are--have "spent over $100 million on these special prosecutors and congressional investigations...and they have yet to come up with one example of official misconduct in office--not one." What's more, he said, "they" owe the country an apology...
...practice serenity. Let us study acceptance. Don't demonize, don't gloat. This abundant democracy tolerates all manner of idiocy and license; now isn't the time for those. God knows the next four years will witness an institutionalized vindictiveness sufficient to make the incumbent wish he were back in Austin...
...discourse, the people of America (or the electoral college as it may be) put an end to the statistical dead heats and elected either a stiff-necked Tennesseean or a record-dodging Texan to be the next leader of the free world. However, now is not the time to gloat about how the smarter man won out in the end. Nor is it the time to plan your emigration to Canada in the case that he didn't--at least, not quite yet. As counter-intuitive as it may seem, now is the time to be thinking about the next...
...Yankees win, well, so much the better. A fitting and glorious way to close an epochal chapter in baseball history. But the town bully doesn't get to gloat...