Looks like a lot of folks are getting ready to backpedal on the Bummer.
What amazes me is the lack of what I will call an “H.L. Mencken ‘conscience’” in the White House speechwriting department.
Mencken defined “conscience,” you see, as (paraphrasing closely) “that little voice inside your head whispering, ‘you might get caught.’”
Well, shouldn’t it occur to WHITE HOUSE speechwriters that their anecdotes about this or that “victim” will be gone over with thousands of fine-toothed combs? and therefore that the anecdotes had better be the truth, the WHOLE!! truth?