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"the Clinton administration did have a declaratatory policy"

"A Declaratatory Policy" -- wonderful euphemism for it. "It" being declaring anything as long as it sounds good and gets good coverage. Completely empty of intent, void of commitment, antithetical to action, just a sound bite with absolutely no regard for reality. Pathological lying.

You hit the nail on the head. Clinton was always about style, never about substance. It seemed most of the time that he was playing the role of president on a bad television show.

As for Stephanopoulus: It is so obvious that he is still a shill for the Democrats, the network should be embarrassed to put him forth as a supposedly objective host.

I watched just one program after he took over the top job. He interviewed Condoleeza Rice and kept interrupting her every 10 or 15 seconds. She was the lone Republican she interviewed that day. Then he had three Democrats on, and let them ramble on extensively without interruptions. One guy, I forget his name, actually made a self-serving speech for a minute and a half while Stephanopoulus smiled approvingly and didn't open his mouth.

This travesty of what used to be a good political show is disgusting. But then, it is probably produced by someone who is part of the Hollywood/New York liberal establishment that thinks the New York Times is a centrist newspaper.