[shaggy eel]

"The year before Bill Clinton put together a farewell video, in which the former president pretended to be at loose ends in the final lame-duck months of his presidency. "

LOL! CNN can't help looking back to better years... in their opinion. I'm surprised they even mentioned President Bush.

Sunday morning [yesterday, NZ time] I heard one Prof. Fred Greenstein being interviewed on Radio New Zealand. The interview related to his book "The Presidential difference", in which he outlines the different styles, strong points and Archilles heels of America's recent Presidents - recent being from Nixon onward, as far as I could tell. Having said that, Roosevelt and Truman were mentioned too.

Has anyone read this book? I'm inclined to pick it up but it could be smart to ask first if anyone here has any opinions before I shell out some hard earned tax paid dollars?

[mrsmith]

Hey! This gives me a chance to point out that this CNN article completed omitted any mention of last night's video clips.
But CNN thought Clinton's, from two years ago, were an important facet of this 'story'.
They're sick, sick, sick.

BTW: FRED I. GREENSTEIN
Haven't read the book, here's the author's page about it: it will give you a good idea of the quality.