Bill Clinton
In 1987 we had Fatal Attraction convincing us of the crazed capabilities of the Other Woman. When Glenn Close’s character Alex said: “I won’t be ignored, Dan”, she made every philanderer’s old fella shrivel in fear.
Ten years later, Monica Lewinsky cemented the star status of the Other Woman by forcing a sitting president to admit he had an “improper relationship” with her.
Her trump card came in the form of a stained blue dress, but her triumph was short-lived. In time, the only stain that stuck was the one on Lewinsky’s character.
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Running for Governor of Arkansas in 1982, Bill Clinton had some folksy words to reassure voters he had learned from the mistakes of his disastrous first term which had seen him booted out after only two years.
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“When I was a boy growing up,’’ Clinton said, ”my daddy never had to whip me twice for the same thing.’‘
If only one could be sure the same were true of some of the current crop federal Liberal MPs. But alas when it comes to industrial relations - their party’s Achilles’ heel - some of them want to make Captain & Tennille’s “Do That To Me One More Time’’ this year’s campaign song.
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Paul says:
Christian Real you repeat the same lies and get corrected nearly every day and then you repeat them anyway. Like pretending that Gillard didn’t go back on her word about the carbon tax. Like bringing up that “trust” fund nonsense. Everyone knows that they only apologised for saying “trust” instead… Read more »
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Robert S McCormick says:
Wakey, wakey, “Shane from Melbourne” the Libs are not proposing to introduce WorkChoices type of legislation! They are proposing, as any possible future government, of whatever ilk has the right to do, to amend the existing FairWork Australia Legislation & make it Fairer for BOTH Employer & Employee. Mmassive retrenchment”?… Read more »
The US election is going to be a squeaker. An absolute squeaker, if the presidential debate today (mostly about the US economy and the president’s health care reforms) was any indication.
Obama sounded like he needed a strong cup of coffee. Maybe with a double shot of something much stronger.
He was lethargic and mathematical - sometimes incomprehensibly so. That was particularly the case in the first half of the debate, which focused on the economy.
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Jo says:
It’s just so incredibly unfair the media have made Obama the golden boy, when it is obvious the man has no business management or financial sense. I’m astonished at the total block on accountability. Obama is never asked any serious questions, even when it’s starkly obvious the man’s got alot… Read more »
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Spruiker says:
Romney will win. There’s no doubt. Americans won’t want commie health care and will want a tax cut for the rich so they can give them more $7 an hour jobs! Read more »
Bill Clinton - the Big Dog - took to the stage at the Democrat convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, today and gave an unashamed display of conducting a crowd like a perfectly pitched cathedral choir.
It was almost a religious experience for the Democrats desperate for some sign from above that Barack Obama would defy a sick economy and trashed expectations to regain the presidency.
They looked up and there was Bill, 42nd president from 1993-2001, a man who is no saint, but whose confidence is always heading heavenwards and who can take people with him.
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Martin H says:
Trillion Richard. They’ve past the point of no return, the once mighty USA empire is no more. Read more »
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Martin H says:
I hope Romney romps it in…watching the USA slide further into economic trouble will be fun to watch. They already have an unserviceable debt, it will take more than Romney to pull them out of the mess they are in, they need a miracle, perhaps being the god lovers they… Read more »
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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RyaN says:
Well we all know that Labor and the Unions are the very same thing, that being said, this is a travesty for yet another liar in the ranks..http://www.news.com.au/national/new-footage-shown-of-tent-embassy-protest/story-e6frfkvr-1226271166562 How can anyone ever trust Labor and the unions, their word is utterly worthless. Read more »
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RyaN says:
@M: because they are that thick that they think that the ammunition is being bought from legal gun stores. OR They just want to erode your rights further and this is a great excuse. Read more »
“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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Kayleen says:
I’m out of league here. Too much brain power on dsipaly! Read more »
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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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harveybirdman says:
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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Peter says:
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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Peter says:
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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A Bob says:
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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David says:
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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