Bill Clinton
We saw this photo pinging around the web yesterday. It’s of a young Bill Clinton, future US president, meeting John F. Kennedy.
So we were wondering - have you had any brushes with fame? Perhaps even before the famed were famous?
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“This is enough to choke a horse,” confided Bill Clinton - “this” being climate change, “one of the two or three biggest challenges in the world”. Clinton was speaking in April in a joint interview with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Together, the “big dawg” former president and the diminutive, billionaire mayor have formed what amounts to an informal, two-man committee to save the world.
It’s not a new concept. The original ‘committee to save the world’ was conjured up in 1999 by the journalist Joshua Cooper Ramo, who appointed the then-Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, US Treasury secretary Robert Rubin and the man who would succeed him, Larry Summers.
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TheRaptured says:
Enter the EU as a entity into the UN security council and end England and France as sovereign nations. Framework for world Currency (BANCOR), based on Carbon taxing rich countries. They are deciding on the next IMF chief. Probably from Mexico. Confirmed, Iran has detonated a nuclear device. Censorship of… Read more »
What do you think happened on Australia Day?
If you said it’s the day the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour you would be right. But a few other things happened on this day as well.
In 1808 the Rum Rebellion occurred. In 1950 India became a republic. In 1998 President Clinton denied having “sexual relations with that woman”.
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Relying on your instanct is tough for most of us. It takes years to build confidence. It doesn’t really just happen if you know what I mean. Read more »
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Greg says:
James1, just read any of the status reports, and look at the photos. Haiti is still a disaster area, one year later, as all the locals wait for the foreigners to fix their problems, and blame them for being too slow. And most of the foreign aid is coming from… Read more »
Bill Clinton made an official visit to Vietnam today in 2000. It was the first trip made by a US president since 1969.
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I could give you the strangest story you’ve ever heard in your life. But we’ll have to save that for another day.. I’ve spent the last 6 years solving riddles.. Well, i sort of always known but…... as I said, another day… Read more »
Last week a woman fainted during a speech former President Bill Clinton was giving for a Democratic senate candidate in West Virginia. Clinton immediately demonstrated exactly why women still see him as the most rockstar-charming world leader in living memory. “I’m going to save her reputation,” he drawled as the woman was led away, his honeyed southern vowels slow and sweet like January molasses. “It was the sun and not me that made her faint.” Such a dude.
It’s no secret that power is sexy. Add a little Tabasco-splash of Arkansan charm (Clinton), a sprinkle of George Clooney salt-n-pepper (Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway) or some smouldering Latina sizzle (President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina) and you got yourself a recipe for hot that no ordinary civilian can match.
But there are a few world leaders that don’t fit the obvious parameters of sexy – yet are.
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Then United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having an “inappropriate relationship” with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky today in 1998.
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I see the TAC are celebrating 40 years of seat belt laws. I recall as a young underage teenager at a pub one day, a guy telling me that the seat belt laws are the most dangerous laws ever introduced into this country. His believed that those laws would open… Read more »
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It was invested in a blind trust. Meaning he had no idea where the money was invested until he got told he was likely to lose it. Read more »
In news just in: Kevin Rudd’s been in an incident in New York involving a shower and a delegation from New Zealand. Apparently it also had something to do with a horse.
Things are definitely hotting up for the PM in the United States. As I write this Mr Rudd is addressing the United Nations General Assembly about his plan for world domination. There’s a lot of talk of a “grand bargain.”
In a brief moment of lucidity during his address Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi appeared to endorse KRudd’s ambitions for the UN Security Council to be expanded.
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Now we have our pretty New World Order to govern us and the rest of the world, we dont need Krudd anymore. We now have a world government that overrides local governments and the ebst part is, we have no say whatsoever on who leads it. We just lost our… Read more »
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Trudy says:
The media are making out Kevin has made the G20 THE most important rather than the G8. What a load of bulls@#$% There are 12 other countries involved in this. My brother lives in the States and said there has not been a mention of Australia or Kevin Rudd at… Read more »
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