Team Clinton
Bill says ‘a million things can happen,’ but he’s already launched Hillary’s presidential campaign. Can he get her elected.
Suddenly Bill Clinton is everywhere, solving poverty, tackling AIDS, hosting Laura Bush, crafting the Democrats' message and deflecting questions about his wife's likely run for president. He doesn't know if he wants her to run, or if she'll run, and if she runs, he doesn't know that she'll win. “A million things can happen,” he said. But he does know one thing, that if she got elected, “she would be a magnificent president,” he told CNN’s Larry King this week.
Clinton is a force of nature, the shade tree for Hillary as she ventures out of the senatorial cocoon to vie for the presidency. Shade is mostly a good thing, but not always, and the yin-yang role of the former president in his wife's political life is understood by both of them. Unlike Al Gore, Hillary is at ease with her husband’s idiosyncrasies and has learned over a long marriage how to mitigate the damages.
As for Bill, he is her best strategist, with a fingertip feel for the electorate that is unrivaled. Thanks to the therapy he went through, says a friend, "He more than anyone can be objective about himself." Clinton has settled into his postpresidential life with gusto, and an approving public is rewarding his global good works with poll ratings that dwarf the current president’s.
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