Highly, highly reccommended reading -- Matt Bai's NYT Sunday Mag article on "Clintonism."

The democratic primary, he posits, is really a referendum on not only Bill and Hill, but the new Democratic direction they forged, an outsider movement that has essentially become the core of the Democratic establishment today. At issue: was the movement that catapulted Clinton to power and dominated the 90s a partial sellout to the Right that weakened progressivism (and led to Bush), or a "Third Way" that saved liberalism from going off a cliff and put the Democratic Party back on the map? Was it both?

-jw