He is superb, when he manages to stick to his points and not wallow in them too much. He doesn't speak. He talks. To you and only to you. You listen, because it's as though he were standing in front of you engaging you in conversation, not standing behind a podium hundreds of feet away or on the far side of a television screen. He can make subtle points like his "strength and wisdom" line or his understated request to "take a look at John Kerry", and those lines have the oratorical punch few other speakers could give them, because you are emphatically listening and you pick up the meaning behind the subtlety.

It does make you wonder how much better he could've come out of his transgressions with Monica Lewinsky if he'd simply said, "I did it." :)