If something needs to be done to perform that duty, it needs to be done even if it is politically devastating to your own career or the re-election chances of you or your party. If not, politics is being put in front of American lives.
Clinton showed that his administration put politics ahead of the lives of Americans. And Hillary is here, stating it as a matter of course, instead of begging the families of September 11th's dead for forgiveness.
Heck, he didn't even try to move public sentiment towards backing action. Instead, he pardoned some FALN members.
It is the public that was in need of a wake up call. Would Dubya or any president been able to do what is being done now without that major wake-up call? I don't think so. . .I just THANK GOD, we have the President that we do at this time.