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"A close friend of Mr. Clinton put it this way: 'He has said there has to be a defining moment in a presidency that really makes a great president. He didn't have one.'"

Who could ever forget Bill's defining moment(s)?

"I didn't inhale."

"I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski."

"It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

One good lie deserved another.

Pathetic as he was as a president, he was an even more pathetic human being.

Pathetic as he was as a president, he was an even more pathetic human being.

What amuses me most about Clinton is that, while during his presidency he was able to call upon consistent job favorability ratings of 50% to 55%, the polls also clearly showed that the public was very aware that he was a "intensely flawed human being". Personal approval ratings rarely budged above 25%. Now, all that Clinton has left is personal approval. He's no longer president, after all. And the fact of the matter is that this is not the kind of guy that you want as your friend -- he'd try to sleep with your wife or daughter just for the hell of it. He doesn't have the full weight of the presidency behind him anymore: He can't send out armies of flacks to defend his countless immoralities. He can't give government jobs to friends and people he owes favors to. And he can't call his spook buddies and dirty tricksters to clean up his messes anymore (a la Fort Macy Park). So few people have any use for him now. Personal approval shines through ... and in the end, Clinton will be left a broken shell of a man. The fact of the matter is that our country is damned fortunate that nothing of the caliber of the recent hijackings happened on his watch. He would have capitulated to the Palestinians (some people believe that his many overtures to Arafat were due to covert intelligence that terrorists were targeting us during his administration -- and he wanted to pacify them). He would have launched cruise missiles to nowhere -- as George Bush said (paraphrasing) "to slam into a $10 tent and hit a camel in the butt". What Clinton failed and currently fails to understand is that leadership requires more than elected office and a button to push or a phone to dial. It requires moral courage, something that he knows nothing about. He's a poll-tested, blown-dried empty suit of a man. There's nothing inside but a smarmy, cocky, two-faced, worthless conniver who confused winning elections with being a leader.