Most Americans still think it was worth going to war in Iraq. Two-thirds of Americans think President Clinton didn't take terrorism as seriously as he should have, and almost as many think President Bush has taken it as seriously as he should have.

About half of Americans, when asked, say Richard Clarke has acted like a personal and political opportunist.

That's all according to the weekly Newsweek poll, we now hear.

So any Clarke Bounce that Sen. John Kerry may have gotten in his bid to unseat President Bush seems to have not lasted very long. In a three-way race, according to Newsweek, President Bush leads Kerry 45 percent to 43 percent, with Ralph Nader holding steady at 5 percent.

And the Rasmussen Report, which is ignoring Nader, has found that while Kerry did get a bit of a boost during the days before, during and after Clarke's testimony to the 9/11 investigation commission, that boost has gone bust.

What does it all mean? It looks like Clarke's allegations were enough to get a lot of attention. But, eventually, that attention brought into focus Clarke's motivations of greed (his book deal), retribution (he was demoted by the Bush Administration) and politics (one of his best friends is Kerry's top foreign policy advisor).

The big winners last week seems to have been the pollsters. The big losers? Well, take your pick.