Back during the Lewinsky scandal, a lot of jokes were flying about the Clinton legacy. One of the best came out after 2000 when someone penned "Clinton: Having sex amid the Bushes".
Ok, so his legacy will be about his pecadillos as that does not appear to be going away even now. But now comes news out of Bean town, that bastion of the right wing conspiracy, that Clinton, without a father from Birth, now has a family.
And that family is? The Bushes! Yep, the Boston papers are saying that Clinton is as thick as thieves with George and Dubya. Seems he might even campaign for Jeb should he ever decide to run!
But George Sr. and Jr. are kind of unique in modern American Politics. They are a close family where son truly followed father into the family Business, and regardless of whether you love them or hate them, they are a tight family. And in that, Americans see hope and draw strength for their own family, and now apparently so does Bill.
WHile that is a nice tale for the kiddies as they go to sleep, I am not myopic enough to think it is really true. For the 3 of them, Jr, Sr, and Bill, are in a very elite club that only 40 other people can share membership with, and 38 of them are dead. And most of those who passed really would not understand it as America today is not America of 100 years ago.
That club is made up of members who have had a common job. The POTUS. And in that, love them or hate them, no one will deny that there is a tremendous burden that the job exacts. We watched over the 8 years that Clinton was in the office how his hair whitened almost daily. It is a job many have sought, but few have won.
Bill Clinton really does not have a lot of friends who understand what he went through. But now, apparently, he does have 2 men who share his experiences and can relate to him, partisan politics aside.
That is all it is. Being able to talk to someone who knows what you are talking about. But perhaps in that, Americans can learn to bury their hate. Just as our leaders seem to have done.