The only way he can retain that is to create more of what a chief is required to command. In her maddening manner, Madeleine Albright has blundered the president into this war, and he has gratefully grasped for the salvation he senses it may provide him. Of course, but that assumes a nation focused on what's really important, which in turn depends on a press doing its job. And neither is. May the farce be with them.
Reality awaits when they walk out of the movie, blinking.