When he answered, I got the feeling he was also saying "Oh, no, you aren't going to trap me with that one!"
If he'd said YES, we'd have loved it, (and according to a poll I saw today, most people would have agreed) but how do you think that one would have played in the mainstream media?
I don't think it would have been very pretty, and it would have given Hillary! more ammo.
Bush's answer of "No" to this question in no way implies support of Clinton's crimes.When he answered, I got the feeling he was also saying "Oh, no, you aren't going to trap me with that one!"
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I agree, Amelia.
If President Bush made an issue of Clinton's wrongdoing, Hillary would use it to attack Bush and the Republicans.
Here is where we will probably disagree, though. I believe that if Hillary started a shooting war with the Republicans, the Democratic Party would never recover.
The Democrats could not survive a full disclosure of their actions during Clinton's administration.
I can't be the only one to realize that. President Bush is not dumb, we all know, despite what his Democratic opponents said about him. He has to know that a public fight about these issues wiuld give him a second term, and fill both houses of Congress with Republicans.
I consider his avoidance of the fight either an act of corruption, or of cowardice.