I don't disagree with your assessment, but you folks are giving Dubya waaay too much credit in his supposed "hitting back at Clinton"...Any criticism of Bubba by Bush is "inadvertent."
Otoh, I realize he's made "deliberate decisions" to ignore the Border Invasion, refer to the Minutemen as "vigilantes," and spend like a liberal socialist...BUT oddly enough, he has "deliberately" decided NOT to veto ONE single thing.
As I said, I don't agree 100% with everything this Administration does, but we will have to politely disagree on whether GWB has ever criticized Clinton. Did you not see Bush41's response to Clinton's latest remarks?
I don't believe I made any reference on how his words were "hitting back at Clinton". I merely pointed out that he's consistantly expressed this same point over the years as his rationale for going in and staying the course.