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Christine Todd Whitman, refers either to your ability to make up your own joke, or to Hillary Clinton's thwarting the governor from shaking hands with newly arriving Kosovo refugees.
It's not so hard, however, to imagine the GOP following the pattern set by the Democrats after 1972: pulling themselves together momentarily to field a winning centrist candidate four years later--and then thwarting his ability to govern (as the Democrats in Congress did Jimmy Carter's)--thereby producing an era of domination by the opposition for the next two decades.
The government introduced a package of measures to support families--by thwarting "quickie" weddings, making prenuptial agreements legally binding, and improving mediation services.
She would "divert resources from other candidates, politicize their races in ways that don't play well beyond the Upper West Side, and become a rallying point for conservatives still itching to exploit anti-Clinton sentiment," thus thwarting Democratic efforts nationwide.
The paper said, "US troops in Kosovo are vital, because the key is the decisive thwarting of Slobodan Milosevic's campaign, as destabilising as it is criminal, against its people."