The Clinton Referendum

A good friend of mine sent me an article from the NY Times. (link here) He prefaced it with:

"This article is a little long and knee-deep in soft-focus intellectualism, but I've never seen an article that so clearly expresses the heart of the problem with the Democratic Party and the love/hate relationship with The Clintons. How Clinton and Ron Brown and a handful of other Democrats adopted the "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy after being pussywhipped by twelve years of Reagan and Bush. How Clinton exposed an inner hypocrisy from the very beginning that was the source of embarrassment from his supporters. How that hypocrisy has poisoned the Democratic Party through The Gore and Kerry elections and led to a Congress that caves in to Bush out of weakness despite a majority. Read it if you got time."

I have.

My problems with the article, while I agree with why the Democratic party and voters have a love/hate relationship with the Clintons - it fails to mention why he was able to beat George the First. It wasn't his compromised vision - it was because Pat Buchanan punched holes in George's armor, exposing him as a naked emperor. Then Ross Perot kicked him around a bit.

Perot did enough damage, and by bowing out, then coming back in was calculated enough to keep Perot and Bush out of the White House. This allowed Clinton in with 42%. Clinton was simply at the right place at the right time.

All this crap about his platform rebuilding in New Orleans Progressive' new ethos stuff -
Huh? What?
NAFTA
isn't named by name, I noticed...
nor his failures with 2/26 World Trade Center? TWA 800? Waco?)

Frankly - it's either Bill running for a third, illegal term in the White house, or it's not.

Again, Hillary will LOSE to ANY Republican. Obama and Edwards BEAT all the Republicans.
Once that poll came out, 'Inevitability' was no longer attached to Hillary's "Change Banner."

UPDATE: How much "experience" can Hillary really have if she never even had a security clearance while in the White House? I have been hoping that someone would finally call her on this one - she's either experienced or isn't. It's all starting to fall apart now. (link to the story)