At some point in their career, every future President will go on a late-night show.
The goalposts have been moved, and theyll never move back.
But Clinton helped to define the late-night swingby as some essential part of a presidency.
And appearing on such a show was a way to appear endearing because everyone is supposed to seem endearing.
It was a strange conversation.
Clinton insisted no, no, he was overweight and his hair was too long.
What a laugh were having here, the Yalie and the Harvard Man!
Do you think that we have profoundly changed since then?
Clintons response: Yes and no.
Well, there we go!
Different, but the same, and more moderner!
Hes learned the fine art of listening, something that only really comes with experience.
He even got marvelously wonky discussing voting demographics, cross-indexing economic status with proximity to economically ascendant urban environments.
The answers got long, and the pauses got longer, too.
The studio audience applauded intermittently, eventually at odd moments.
The clapping that followed that line seemed… oddly timed?
Thats the nature of the presidential late-night show guest appearance, though.
Everything even profound conversations about major drug epidemics and troubling economic disparity and the importance of immigration reform!
circles the drain towards laughter or clapping or (worst of all) clapter.
So maybe you think a victory lap is what he deserves, or is all we could expect.
Less than 280 characters, so theyll fit in a tweet.
