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Actually, he veers drunkenly between these two poles, now mocking Hillary for thick ankles, dowdy outfits, and résumé padding, now excusing her involvement in Travelgate and Whitewater.
(George W. Bush spent his 1978 congressional campaign excusing his father's membership in the Trilateral Commission.)
We seem to have lost sight of the fact that democracy is as much about procedures as about preferred outcomes, excusing Boris Yeltsin's use of tanks against his own Parliament and his dispatch of troops to Chechnya a year later.
Most pundits follow Ellen Goodman (CNN's Late Edition ) in excusing the White House's anti-Willey smear campaign as "inevitable" while characterizing it as far from "appealing."
Remember what those 30s communists were excusing in the Soviet Union--a hideous state terror.