Actually, he's pretty sleazy when you get down to it. He came into office poor by Washington's standards (IIRC he was worth something in the six figures), and even with the constraints of office on him, he managed to turn 'blind' trust fund investments and his 'foundation' into an extended family fortune in the high two-figure millions if the estimates can be trusted. He's not above doing favours and a lot of his success in the Mideast and East Asia is down to selling out allies and spending US cash on slush funds.
Plus, there is his record on 'domestic security'. The economy isn't everything, much as he would love to believe that. I have problems with extended police rights to search and seizure of assets, federal e-mail snooping, and undercover activities in 'extremist' groups. Hell, I'm not even sure the whole 'World Trade Center Hijacking' plot was even real. And no, I am NOT a wingnut. It just came at too convenient a time, I'm sure he found it hard to resist the temptation to talk a half-assed plan by some dumb Islamist would-be terrorists into the next great global threat. Takes the eye off China and Enron and the dotcom bust (he couldn't know how benign the recession would eventually turn out, after all).
Nope, he's good, but he's not *nice*. Look at how he strongarmed the UN into effectively partitioning Iraq and clamping down on the south, even now that Hussein is finally dead. Look at his continuing support for the murderous Fatah thugs in what he calls the 'Palestinian success story'. Two-state solution my arse! though I hae to admit it's intreresting to see an armed dictatorship of radical, violent moderates oppressing ultranationalists for a change. Look at how he's pandering to the Chinese over Tibet and Taiwan. He didn't stand up to the Russians over Ossetia and left Iranian stooges in control of Afghanistan. And yes, I *do* buy the theory that he tacitly invited Tehran to invade. the Taleban were a bloody embarrassment to him. But guys, anyone recall that Bush (he ran in '00) wanted to engage them? He even had diplomatic contacts back when he was governor. That was another opportunity wasted.
With Clinton, it's his way or the highway. That's no way to run a democracy.