Call it the Clinton effect.

I’m not trying to be political here. But what seems to upset most people about Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton for that matter, is this habit of parsing.

Barack Obama is not a Muslim as far as I know. I made a mistake in calling my trip to Bosnia heroic. It depends on what the meaning of is is.

I’m not lying, but I’ll let my rhetoric go right up to the line, and if you call me on it then I have reason to attack you because I wasn’t lying.

Microsoft also likes to have it both ways. They want to be seen as cooperating with open source, but their actions show they see the open source movement as their chief competitive threat, and will continue to treat it as such.

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