Reply #34: Not at all. A mixed bag doesn't cut it [View All]

[MindMatter]

A mixed bag is not much better than an empty bag. He is correctly seen as essentially a lifelong politician. Even though he might have mixed in the occasional selfless act, it is not enough to change anybody's thinking about him.

There really is a certain threshold, and it is a fairly high one, that a person has to meet to get on the sort of path that Jimmy Carter and Al Gore have taken. These guys have created legacies that completely transcend whatever opinion you might have held about their their prior service. Bill Clinton doesn't seem to have any interest in building that kind of legacy. Again, he served his time. He can decide what to do with his life and what kind of legacy he wants to leave behind.