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As the other candidates took potshots at the leader of the pack for (according to them) coddling China, wanting to federalize education policy, equivocating on abortion, and endangering Social Security with a huge tax cut, Bush ducked, smiled and declined to take the charges entirely seriously.
The GOP was gearing up to criticize Clinton for coddling dictators, but the Kosovo bombing short-circuited this argument.
Both blast the president for coddling China and ignoring its grotesque human-rights violations.
As a candidate during the 1992 presidential election, Clinton attacked President Bush for "coddling" the "butchers of Beijing."
He was appalled by the way federal courts were intervening in state and local governance, coddling criminals, and expanding individual rights.