But still, it's notable that just a few weeks before that speech she was revising history and the rationale for her and her husband's support of DOMA -- just like Bernie Sanders at around the same time revised the history of his vote against DOMA by claiming he'd been in favor of marriage equality at that time when he wasn't.
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Senator John Edwards, was a notable exception when she told Salon.com last summer that Mrs. Clinton was "just not as vocal a woman's advocate as I want to see" and relied too much on her sex as a rationale for her candidacy.
Dolan also said Browne Sanders's work was declining, but in asserting that he fired her for tampering, he raised a potentially more inflammatory rationale for her dismissal than what the Garden claimed when she filed her lawsuit and what it told the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Ms. Lacy — friendly, energetic, looking far younger than her 67 years — delivered a persuasive rationale for her brand of public art, now known as "social practice".
She undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that she is more qualified, right now, to be president than Mr. Obama.
"It's about life; it's about death; it's about process, man," she said, repeating the artistic rationale for her particular role: sitting in the middle of the gallery next to a pile of her own excrement.
Reflecting on her victory in the Pennsylvania primary, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday neatly summed up the chief political rationale of her enduring candidacy.
It also provides the rationale of her campaign.
Kirsten Moore, president of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project, said Ms. Sebelius had no credible scientific rationale for her decision.
"Sometimes," she said, adding a final rationale for her idea, "I think you have to have some compassion".
