Matthews bases his opinion on a President on some weird combination of traits I can't quite get down. If he likes your personality, then he ascribes great significance to meaningless qualities. His babbling above about Bush makes him sound exhausted--what is he talking about? Just a bunch of generalities. When did Clinton or any president ever act on something right away, like in an action movie? His favorite living ex-president is Jimmy Carter, a model of action who waited MONTHS to do something about the hostages in Iran and screwed that up, who spent ages futzing with Congress on details of bills so his is the biggest failure of all the living ex-presidents.
Matthews is People magazine-level political "insight".