Clinton Revisited

Does anyone still hate Clinton? I’m sure there are a few. And many people today feel a similar unfocused rage towards Bush II. In both cases there’s a reasonable basis for the disagreement, but hate seems overblown.

I saw some of the coverage of the opening ceremonies for the Bubba Pavilion down there in Little Rock. It always strikes me, when they line up presidents current and past, how they make up a strange and lonely fraternity. For all of their differences, who else could understand the unyielding pressure of the presidency?

And seeing Clinton in the rain, hatless, thinner, and recovering from surgery, it seems like so long ago. I think he must feel it each day, the footnote to his legacy. But looking back on that era, don’t we wish we had those kinds of problems today?