Ambition gone with the tabloids

William Jefferson Blythe Clinton is, of course, the most famous living person almost impeached over an ill-judged sexual relationship with a woman (not his wife, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton). Clinton’s legacy is truly almost great – he turned a monetary deficit into a trillion dollar surplus that George Bush blew like an irresponsible heir, leaving Barack Obama holding the economic ruin.

Bill Clinton was the first ‘black’ president, before Barack. He failed the Rwandese, but atoned by forcing peace in both Kosovo and Sierra Leone. Before Bush, junior, he was Africa’s first anti-Aids champion. Yet for all his accomplishments, Monica Lewinsky – and that little black dress – will always be a dark stain, pardon the pun, in his history’s footnotes.