*snort*
What it actually suggests is that he's desperately trying to salvage what's left of his already battered "legacy". It was bad enough, he thought, that he was going to be forever remembered as the president who got oral sex in the Oval Office, then lied about it under oath.
Now he's facing sinking even deeper, to be remembered as the president who got oral sex while terrorists made their plans, and who perhaps is the single person most responsible for the American failure to head this tragedy off at the pass.
Unlike the old days, when he was able to issue national press releases for his self-aggrandizing spin, he's now reduced to buttonholing people on the streets and doing his "I'm greater than it would appear" speech one American at a time.
Pitiful.
