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...Clinton's, but I find all this exhilarating. Perhaps the only thing Clarence Thomas ever said that I agree with is that kneeling is not a position of strength, and begging is not an effective tactic. I'd much rather see blacks throwing their weight around; using every parliamentary tactic to protect their interests; being as single-minded, stubborn and selfish as, say, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay. I just wish the effort was being made in a more worthy cause...
GIMME A HAND Tip O'Neill famously said that all politics is local. Proving that point, Somerville mayor Michael Capuano [4] won the Democratic primary for O'Neill's old House seat (once also held by J.F.K.), swaying voters with aggressive campaigning. That tactic was better than that of his closest competition, former Boston mayor and Vatican ambassador Ray Flynn, who showed pictures of himself with the Pope and Mother Teresa...
...ignores the careful standards that the courts have mandated to prevent the misuse of perjury allegations... By selectively presenting the facts and failing to set out the full context of the answers that it claims may have been perjurious, the OIC has presented a wholly misleading picture. This tactic is most pronounced in the OIC's astonishing failure to set out the initial definition of "sexual relations" presented by the Jones lawyers at President Clinton's deposition... The burden that must be met by the OIC extends beyond showing that the President was wrong on the semantics, it must also...
...Their tactic is one the White House employed to great effect last year during the campaign-finance scandal--the "prebuttal." The idea is to put forward information--even the damaging or not-so-believable tidbits--before the other side can, on the assumption that he who spins first has the advantage...
...Clinton is an unusually good liar," Senator Bob Kerrey once told Esquire magazine. "Unusually good." But this isn't quite true either. President Clinton is an extraordinary politician, a uniquely gifted product of a political culture in which telling the whole truth about small matters is simply one possible tactic among many. He is a master of the fudges, fibs, hedges, exaggerations and omissions that grease the wheels of public relations. Most pols will employ them now and then to various purposes--to flatter allies, condemn opponents, cast themselves in a happy light--and more often than not the public...