Without Bill Clinton, Hillary would not be considered to be president. Ken Starr was first going to use Whitewater as the grounds for impeaching Bill Clinton but getting evidence that he was linked was too hard. That was mostly Hillary's ball of wax. Bill Clinton is supposed to be the shining distraction to make Hillary look good, not bad. But if we want to focus on Hillary, that makes her look even worst.
In Travelgate, the White House travel office staff was fired at the behest of Mrs Clinton so that she could fill those "slots" with "her people". Filegate had nine hundred FBI background files on Republican officials illegally in the possession of the White House. During Fostergate, White House officials obstructed an FBI investigation into the suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster. In the Whitewater affair, taxpayers were defrauded of millions of dollars while the White House obstructed the investigation every step of the way and paid off the silence of indicted counsel. The White House was rented off like a common bed-and-breakfast and coffee house. The Clinton Administration used IRS audits as an instrument of threat and vengeance on its enemies.
Perhaps worst of all, in what comes horrifyingly close to treason, the Administration permitted the release of CIA briefings and classified missile technology to China in return for staggering campaign contributions. But then again, that is going back to Bill Clinton.
He was, I'll tend to agree, most effective when he approached things from "the center."
