11.   Also in both cases, the president will be criticized for barely putting a discernible dent in a couple of very big problems.

12.   But officials from South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique have also criticized the president.

13.   But like those gathered at Riverside Church, where the president was sharply criticized for signing the welfare law, they see things getting worse.

14.   Callers to the editorial page later lamented the shame of hearing protesters criticize the president.

15.   Conservatives who criticized Democratic presidents for usurping power became advocates of a strong presidency when Ronald Reagan was in the White House.

16.   Criticizing the president in a time of crisis is unlikely to score them points in the eyes of the electorate.

17.   Democrats have been hard pressed to figure out how to criticize a president with stratospheric poll numbers without looking unpatriotic.

18.   Democrats who had expected to spend the autumn excoriating Bush for his massive tax cut are now careful not to criticize the president directly.

19.   Despite that plea, Republicans were quick to criticize the president as returning to liberal, spendthrift ways.

20.   During the Clinton years they just criticized the president, and during the campaign they papered over their differences.