Replies

Well, President Bush played that card in a risky manner if your assessment is correct.
---
This is America. There are always elections two and four years (or less) from now. If you want to have a policy that will take six, eight, twenty years to reap the rewards, you have to deal with it.
Playing it safe doesn't get you anywhere in the long run.
Clinton was obsessed with polls and tried to tailor everything he did to maximize his standings in the polls. Which means he didn't accomplish anything, except run a public relations campaign telling the American people what a great job he was doing.
If he had decided to do what he believed was right, his short-term popularity might have suffered, but he could have had a legacy, something he so ardently desires now.
Of course Clinton has no understanding of the concept of right and wrong, so trying to explain this to him would be like telling a blind man how blue the sky is.

Wow! That was an excellent post!

Leading means taking risks. President Bush leads, and will have a legacy that the debauched one can only dream of.

He will go around saying what a great President he was, but history will prove that he accomplished nothing...... other than being impeached as a slimy liar.