The difference is this:
Bill Clinton is an amiable sociopath who stands for absolutely nothing except getting his end wet in every female who crosses his path, and in his amoral but clever brain he basically understands that having more people like him, and having more power, is critical to that primary goal.
Barack Hussein Obama actually believes all his own stupid bullshit Liberal ideology, and is too arrogant to consider that the people who disagree with him on anything might be right, and therefore he inevitably ends up thinking they are evil, and the ends justify the means to achieve his goals.
No, triangulation is totally out of the question for Obama.