I don't see the comparison. Bill Clinton was not the ideologue, that was Hillary. Bill just wanted to "be the president", and was actually good at that role. When America panicked about Hillary's direction for the country and voted in the Republican majority, Hillary was blocked from radical policies. Because of that and of course the time taken defending himself from scandals, Bill settled into a nice Lazze-faire presidency, chasing women and "being the president," which made him perfectly happy.
In contrast, Obama doesn't seem to like "being the president," and is absolutely not good at it. His aloofnes from that role, and withdrawl to the golf course, is more of a sign to me that he does not like the job at all. Like Clinton, the Republicans were voted in again in a panic, and he has sort of retreated, but into a role that doesn't suit him, and he didn't want.
My favorite person to compare Clinton to is actually Zaphrod Beeblebrox, the president of the galaxy in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
The President in particular is very much a figurehead --- he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had --- he has already spent two of his ten Presidential years in prison for fraud. Very very few people realize that the President and the Government have virtually no power at all, and of these very few people only six know whence ultimate political power is wielded. Most of the others secretly believe that the ultimate decision-making process is handled by a computer. They couldn't be more wrong.
I stand corrected. You all make excellent points. I was comparing Obama only to Clinton’s opportunism and narcissism, but Clinton at least knew something about what he was supposed to do as President. Obama neither knows nor cares about the job at hand.