Bill is buffoon who was enabled by gutless suckups.
Not necessarily a contradiction.
Bill had some real political instincts. Hillary doesn't.
And as for the suckups, every politician has them. Every upper-level political candidate is as much a group as an individual.
The differences between candidates have much to do with whether they're smart enough to pick competent advisors and smart enough to listen to the ones who know what they are talking about.
Hillary strikes out: no good political instincts, no talent in choosing competent advisors, not enough sense to listen to them.
For whatever reason, Bill Clinton wasn't as incompetent as his wife is.
It was clear going back to Bill’s debates with Bush and Perot that Clinton owned that room.
That certainly wasn’t the case with Hillary against Trump, she just came off as whiny.