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They were at least in part the reaction of a decent and thwarted person tacking out in search of love and eminence.
Now that Clinton staff attorney Lanny Breuer is invoking executive privilege to keep from having a Starr grand jury sit-down, the WP usefully documents the White House's legal tacking by quoting White House counsel Charles Ruff's comments from two months ago: "We have no intention of asserting the privilege, executive privilege, in any situation that I'm aware of."
I see candidates--some, anyway--really trying to stake out new middle ground; you see tacking and opportunistic positioning.
Garry Wills wrote in the New York Review of Books a few years ago that "tacking"--back and forth, between left and right--was an honorable way of getting from the status quo to a new philosophy and a new vision.
True enough (I concede in advance), there aren't many pols out there who actually live up to this standard-but let's not give the vital center a bad name by pretending that it's no more than dishonest tacking.