His legacy is the blue dress.
What's to analyze? He's a shallow human being and was a shallow president. No one's denying he's a clever politician, but that's really all he had going for him.
At the same time, it says 100 years from now, people still will be trying to figure out the lessons of the Clinton era.
Clinton should be remembered for several things: a fatuous foreign policy plus military and security policies that set the stage for 9/11; for blocking any action that might have prevented the Rwanda genocide, the worst mass-murder since the downfall of Pol Pot; for an unparalleled record of corruption that puts all previous scandal-ridden administrations in the shade. The Lewinsky scandal, useful for exposing some of Clinton's methods, is just the tip of the iceberg.
He actually did VERY little as President. You can always stump a Clinton supporter by asking them what Clinton DID that was so great.
One hundred years from now people will point to him as an example of a corrupt charlatan who fooled many and was akin to the snakeoil salesmen from an earlier American era (and perhaps worse, if a thorough assessment and evaluation of that administration is examined). He'll be looked upon with scorn and contempt.
They won't be personally emotionally invested as some of these "analysts" clearly are, so they won't be struggling to "figure out" the obvious: Clinton won due to Ross Perot and a President Bush 41 who, during the '92 campaign, came across as detached and apathetic (but history will record that affection for 41 grew as the years went by, while revulsion of clinton did the same).
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Better: "The Clinton Piddle."
Dan
I get less angry thinking about the Clintons when I put them in their proper historical perspective... as the murderers of the Democrat party, the agents that took it so far out of the mainstream that they can no longer win an election.
The Clinton administration was so devoid of any real accomplishments that nobody will be talking about it 100 years from now.
That's exactly what makes these platitudes about "the Clinton economy" so idiotic. If there is anyone who thinks "the economy" is ever a major issue in a historical sense, I would ask them what the growth in GDP was during the administration of Chester Arthur, or what the average U.S. unemployment rate was during the Franklin Pierce administration, etc.
If the media covered Clinton like they would have a GOP president both he and Hillary would have ended up in JAIL PERIOD