WRONG AGAIN

Here’s Clinton’s apparently subtle description of George W. Bush: “If you go back and read what (Bush) said in the campaign, he’s just doing what he’d said he’d do. You’ve got to give him credit for that.” Huh? Isn’t it the most remarkable fact about this president that he will be remembered primarily as a radical interventionist in foreign policy, while he campaigned in favor of moderate, realist isolationism? And wasn’t he supposed to be a “uniter, not a divider,” reaching out to the socially moderate center? Yet he has governed domestically as a member of the hard-core Christian right and polarized the country more deeply than even under Clinton. Sorry, Bill. Try another back-handed compliment.