Eureka, nuance!
It’s amazing what almost six years in office can do to a President. Clinton had an affair, and Bush has discovered nuance! If you look for it, it’s everywhere. “No, the government is not eavesdropping on phone calls of innocent Americans,” he says. Of course this does not answer the charge that the NSA is scouring everyone’s phone records and then conducting warrantless wiretaps of those the government deems non-innocent. Or how about on immigration? How does a President satisfy the rabid zenophobes of his party, and at the same time provide cover for the big-business wing of the party who wants greater access to cheap immigrant labor? Why you use a litte nuance, of course! You send troops to the border to crack down on illegal immigration and agree to build a bad-ass wall to keep Mexicans out. At the same time you support legislation that would give illegal immigrants already in the country a path to citizenship. And to think Bush used to treat nuance like it was a dirty word!
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