What had the most influence on Bill Clinton's effectiveness as president and ability to win?

[calteacherguy]

For those who say Hillary is the best choice because of her "experience," I rest my case.

[saltpoint]

1. His selection of Maya Angelou to read at his Inaugural.

That rates tops with me.

[Forkboy]

11. That was very cool.I had forgotten all about that.

[jobycom]

2. His innate skills honed by relevant experience.

One without the other would be useless.

[MichiganVote]

3. The tighty righties...they sought to define his presidency.

[saltpoint]

4. The sax solo on Arsenio Hall's program wasn't half bad either.

[napi21]

5. Without question, it is his connection to people!

Even when he speaks today, you can see it! That's not something anyone can learn or copy either. There are few people in this world who have that ability.

[illinoisprogressive]

6. What democrats are slowly, and at times have to be dragged to, is that

you have to have someone as president you like. people of both parties vote when they are excited and jazzed about a candidate. They do not vote on policy papers, or some obscure thing. Experience, well we would be nominating Biden or Dodd wouldn't we.
You look back at all the establishment, cold and wooden nominees we kept electing over and over again.
Are we going to make that same mistake for the umpteeth time? Are we going to learn what the republicans already knew years ago. You have to give them credit for learning it faster than us.
I hated Reagan. But, he charmed and attracted alot of people including many in our own party. Why in the world would Reagan still be so popular if not for his personality.
Same with Kennedy and FDR. They were larger than life.
But, somewhere we lost that ability to see winners like FDR or Kennedy and instead go not with our heart but, with our head and nominate people like Dukakis or even, heaven forbid, the possiblity of Hillary. she is in that mold.

[Imagevision]

7. No Bill put down but after Monica, what did he accomplish? enlighten me...

[rinsd]

8. Relyijng on a DU poll to "rest your case" is very funny (nt)

[Totally Committed]

9. There is no rhyme or reason to whom the American electorate will support for charisma....

And, it's not only Bill that rode that pony to the White House, some for better and some for worse.

Bush2, Reagan, JFK... they all had "it" in spades.

It trumps intelligence, experience... everything else. Except money, of course.


TC

[wyldwolf]

10. you're using today's level of exposure to define a pre-internet candidate

[MadHound]

12. His close adherence to pro-corporate policies

Just another corporate whore, selling out his principles and the US population to corporate America. NAFTA, the Telecom Act, etc. etc. ad nauseum.

[MH1]

13. I voted for him because he chose Gore as Veep. n/t