Yeah, Bill Clinton could have been a great president. He is a political genius and he read every biography of every president he could get his hands on. However, he chose the side of the lesser angels. When good and honest historians in the future compare him to all the other presidents, he will be deemed about the worst. Obama will be noted as the worst.
“He is a political genius and he read every biography of every president he could get his hands on.”
Precisely the kind of person who I personally wouldn’t want as a President. I give Clinton credit for getting through the difficult time he did in his youth (losing his father in a car accident, defending his mother from her abusive alcoholic husband, etc.), but his willingness later in his life to use people for his own gain is not indicative of the kind of person who I want to see in the White House.