he's a modest, modest guy.

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Clinton, just build some houses already.

 Asked his perspective on how the country fell into such economic hard times, Clinton responded in an NBC ''Today'' show interview by asking rhetorically: ''Did any of them seriously believe that if I had been president and my economic team had been in place the last eight years, that this would be taking place.''

In another interview, Clinton was asked which president he would most identify with.

''Personally, I'm not sure,'' he told CNN. ''One guy wrote a book saying that I was most like Thomas Jefferson, but the times in which I governed were most like Theodore Roosevelt's. And we had -- and the results I received were similar. We had -- he had enormous success. The country was better off when he quit than when he started.''

Why does everybody want to be like TR?  He was psycho.  A psycho Lone Ranger wannabe.  We discussed that in Foreign Policy class, how in recent years TR's gotten a really good rep (no longer considered Hemingway: The President) and all the modern presidents say he's pretty fly, for a turn of the century guy.  Then again I've never understood why this dude's on Mount Rushmore either.  Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln... Theodore Roosevelt?  Please.  Ooh, I conquered the Philippines.  Ooh, I shot 512 big-game animals.  I'm such a man's man.