Above: Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky and the Dress (of Sperm Stain Fame) which he bought for her
Bill Clinton was promoted from a strange background: Arkansas, and Yale Law School.
When you think about it, he more naturally would have been a Republican except that he was culturally left: a fan of rock music such as Fleetwood Mac ( Hippie Dippie types who are still around, the original Superannuated Hippies who refuse to leave the stage...)
Hillary Clinton: the Dragon Lady to mainstream America.
"Porgressives" have such mixed feelings about Hillary it is ridiculous.
Clinton introduced NAFTA and pushed the outsourcing of American jobs overseas with a fervor beyond anything shown by those bogeymen of the Left, the Koch Brothers.
Clinton has a certain kind of weird charisma and of course, sexual energy. Like Clark Gable, the male sex symbol star of the 1930's ( when Gary Cooper played the American "straight shooter" even though he was as much a libertine in real life as Gable) Clinton has this bad boy appeal and --which few people really see for what it is-- an adolescent charm combined with the gift of gab.
Unsurprisingly, Clinton has a lot of Irish ancestors. One of his main accomplishments was in going to Northern Ireland and trying to calm down "The Troubles" there.
He blew the minds of the Irish as he visited his Catholic relatives in Northern Ireland and talked about how the Catholics and Protestants there were like " drunks in a barroom fight who get tossed out but kept making their way back to the bar to carry it on again."
He catered to and pandered to America's blacks with particular zeal in the realm of razzle dazzle rhetoric and posturing but in practical terms gave them nothing. A neat trick.
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