Reply #7: Like you PeteNYC I was puzzled by Clinton's remarks

[jmcgowanjm]

There was an unreal air to the press conference. Here was a roomful of people walking on eggs, as it were. The assembled journalists shared the sense that to put Bush on the spot about any one of a range of questions—the quagmire in Iraq, the budget deficit, the growth of unemployment—carried the risk of a presidential meltdown. The timidity and banality of the questioning was, in large measure, a reflection of THE GROWING FEAR WITHIN ALL SECTIONS OF THE MEDIA AND POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT, DEMOCRATS(insert Clinton
Support here) AS WELL AS REPUBLICANS (my emphasis), that a crisis is looming in America that could set off an unprecedented wave of social and political struggles.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/aug2003/bush-a02.shtml