You wouldn't think so, looking at today's White House. He seems, moreover, to face no real opposition. Al Gore is havering around, saying he may not decide to stand next time. The ex-president has shot himself, unpardonably, in both feet. The new administration pounds on, building none of the promised bridges.
Healing is a word dropped from the Republican lexicon.
You may, perhaps, have caught something of the flavour of the non-debate here in recent weeks. Bang goes Kyoto and up pop our own Bruce Anderson and Stephen Glover. Bang goes the ABM treaty. Good riddance to old rubbish, says William Hague, saluting briskly. An archetypal Perle of wisdom.