After seven long months, what we got was four minutes of petulance and prevarication. It felt less like a speech than a slap.
The President's speech was a disaster, a historic failure that will be ever noted and long remembered. It was, in fact, a reverse Checkers speech. The Checkers speech was a defiant and manipulative statement that saved a career. The Monica speech was a defiant and manipulative statement that will, I believe, ultimately undo one.
The speech had to do four difficult things. First, it had to both be forthcoming and seem forthcoming. Second, it had to elicit from...
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