his travails: Gennifer Flowers, the draft, the charges that he waffled on the issues and massaged his rhetoric to conform to the expectations of his varied audiences. Others have been hobbled by less. Clinton tucked it in, bit his lip (an expression that signals deep thought, extreme satisfaction, or consuming anger; an observer rarely knows which), and plowed on.
In retrospect, his fellow Democrats were as savage as the Republicans: Paul Tsongas called him a "pander bear,'' Bob Kerrey predicted the opposition would "open him up like a soft-shelled peanut,'' and Jerry Brown struck at his wife. A consensus formed early and resurfaced regularly throughout the long winter and spring of primaries: Clinton was hopelessly crippled. It was only a matter of
