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According to the NYT , the Clinton inner circle realizes the major political drawback of this line: reinforcing the notion of Clinton (in the NYT 's choice phrase) as "a lawyerly manipulator of language use to evade responsibility.
Judges--who, in one sense, are merely lawyers in robes--when they are on the bench also continue the lawyerly practice of begining with a desired result and then working backwards to arguments that perhaps support it.
However, this is not good lawyerly advice.
What compels the lawyerly approach is not priggishness on the part of the Times (well, not entirely) but limitations of space.
The consensus is that Bumpers' aw-shucks style and his rhetorical flourishes were viewed by the Senate audience as a refreshing contrast to the lawyerly nit-picking (such as that displayed by Clinton private attorney David Kendall, who also spoke yesterday) that had heretofore carried the day.