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It still strains credulity to believe that a Democratic President would dare tamper with the aura of entitlement that envelops Social Security, which must be part of any reform package large enough to make a budgetary difference. But the President knows that three more years of fiscal austerity would be a dubious platform for re-election. The tenor of the budget debate is fast changing -- and Clinton may soon be forced to choose between the sanctity of Social Security and his dreams of ambitious programs to grow the economy.