Nevermind his escapades with Monica and who knows who all else, if we just look at how he acted on the campaign trail, he acted adolescent. Sure, he's one of the chosen ones (see college pedigree), but his power was his "charm," in a sort of affable frat-boy way.
I love that story of the young reporter who was wearing a suit at some outdoor function where President Clinton was, when Clinton pointed out to him a buxom young beauty and told him to get her number for him. So the reporter goes over and tells the young lady the President would like to have her phone number. She was flattered and wrote it down for him.
Then the reporter didn’t quite know what to do. He thought that if he tried to approach the President of the United States and pull something out of his pocket, he’d be taken down. So he went up to a Secret Service agent to tell him to pass the paper to the President, when Clinton pulls him aside with an angry face, and hisses, “Don’t you DARE go to your boss for permission when I give you an order! Give it directly to ME!”
Too bad Clinton thought the guy was one of his SS, i.e. his pimps.... This guy was a reporter and only too happy to pass along that little story!