I think I am a verb, instead of a personal pronoun. Clinton is all verb. Dole had no instinct for the nation's chameleon qualities. Clinton is the verbalizing chameleon of all time. Some politicians, for reasons almost mysterious, tap into deep subterranean streams of popular passion.
Demagogues certainly do.
Huey Long did. Maybe Clinton, as a Southern populist of great political gifts, should be located in that slightly dangerous Southern tradition. Maybe it is not J.F.K. who is Clinton's model and political ancestor, but Lyndon Johnson. That would be 1965 or 1966 for Clinton, still in the idealistic beginning of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, before Vietnam overwhelmed and destroyed it. It would be an irony if Clinton were L.B.J.'s heir, given Clinton's antiwar history.