And a big improvement.
It sounds like you're saying, "George Bush, right or wrong." It is one thing to say, "My country right or wrong," since the alternative is to commit treason, or to renounce one's citizenship. (By implication, one is admitting that one's country is wrong.) But George Bush is not America. And as for whether he's an improvement over Bill Clinton, that once obvious truth is becoming more ambiguous by the day. But your statement is irrelevant anyway. It implies, "Bill Clinton was so bad, that Bush gets carte blanche." George Bush does not get a free ride. A free people does not give carte blanche to any leader.
No, that's not what I'm saying. It's important to criticize Bush, and most of those upset about his immigration proposal are pretty decent people, although my view is that the proposal is a lot better than the status quo.
What I'm saying is that whether you agree with this policy or not, or choose to vote for Bush or not, you have to admit he has character unlike our last leader.
He is not ducking this issue even though it would probably be of political benefit for him to do so.