What changed Hillary Clinton's public persona?

[Reaganfan]

Is anyone else surprised by Hillary Clinton's changing public persona?

I remember sitting with my parents in the fall of 2000, watching David Letterman make jokes about Hillary "Carpetbagger" Clinton. I remember after 9/11, Hillary was loudly booed at a Concert for New York City and a popular but distasteful internet meme at the time was "The Sexiest Picture" of Hillary Clinton, which had her in a mask around Ground Zero. In 2003, many people made a big deal about her Gandhi and the gas station joke/gaffee.

Then, she runs for President and loses the primary to Barack Obama in 2008.

Now, I do believe she's done a good job as SOS, but even still, what changed the public perception of Hillary Clinton?

[Reaganfan]

I think there is also a bit of 90s nostalgia, perhaps with rose colored glasses. Look at Bill Clinton's ratings. The last 11 years have been one calamity after another and I think people look back on the Clinton era more fondly now.

Yeah public perception changes. If I would have told you in 2001 that Hillary Clinton would be as popular as she was in 2011/2012, it would have been hard to believe. Also, if I came back from the future and told you that the President of the United States five years from now is President Bush, you might scratch your head, but it could happen. That's politics.

In 1993 when President Bush left office, who would have thought that 10-15 years later, the White House would be occupied by a President Bush?