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Reports of Bill Clinton becoming Ambassador to Ireland are nonsense - Headcase Lindsay Lohan has a better chance of getting the job than Bill

Posted on Saturday, December 01, 2012 at 07:22 AM

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According to reports in the U.S. press, former United States president Bill Clinton could be taking up residence in the Phoenix Park, as Ambassador to Ireland as soon as next year, when incumbent Dan Rooney returns.

To which I say garbage.

There’s a better chance Lindsay Lohan would become envoy.

Reports suggest that Clinton, a regular visitor to Ireland, might be eying up the post.

The worst piece of blather was in the Chicago Sun -Times which noted:

“He and his exhausted wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, could still work on their Clinton Global Initiative and have a tranquil place for Hillary to wind down after leaving office before gearing up for her run for the presidency in 2016, and he has a grateful President Obama who would do almost anything for him.”

Utterly untrue Clinton could not keep up his Clinton Global Initiative if he became Ambassador to Ireland, It would be an immediate conflict of interest.

Clinton is booked through the end of 2013 with his Global Initiative which he sees as his passport to his most coveted goal -- a Nobel Peace Prize.

The diplomatic backwater of Ireland holds no such charms as a result.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of it.

Hillary Clinton, currently the US Secretary for State, will visit Ireland next week. She will travel to Belfast to discuss the peace process and investment opportunities. She will also attend a meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and deliver a speech on US achievements in support of human rights in Dublin.

The Clintons visited Ireland three times during Bill Clinton’s time as President of the United States, from 1993 to 2001. The most memorable was when he turned on the Christmas lights in Belfast one year after the IRA ceasefire.

In 1999 Hillary Clinton gave the keynote address to a women’s conference and in 1997 she gave the Tip O'Neill Memorial lecture at the University of Ulster's Magee campus in County Derry. She has also addressed the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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Frosty38 | Dec 02, 2012, 09:47 AM EST

I really think she is tired. when she was a lawyer she saved her friend from being taken for everything. Who is a TV commentator. I think Bill would do get. I would vote for him again as anything

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Lacy | Dec 02, 2012, 12:37 AM EST

Don't call her a headcase..sh**..I would think a person writing the headlines would have enough manners or something to not put these labels on people..its not like the girls a murderer..I kinda like Lindsay I think she's got a likeable side..you can just feel it..I think she's been a domestic violence victim and bad events in a life..like alot of people reading these articles.

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myhomenj | Dec 01, 2012, 08:53 PM EST

Is it true The Clintons own a home outside Dublin?

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pilib04 | Dec 01, 2012, 07:07 PM EST

Niall, sorry, but I pretty sure Bill Clinton could do it if he chose to. He is quite the man. More interested though, in the Hillary rumours. Would love to see her follow President Obama in the White House.

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alisaann | Dec 01, 2012, 02:29 PM EST

i don't see why it would be a bad idea....i think, he'd do a GOOD job....but, that's just MY opinion. alisa

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RedBranch | Dec 01, 2012, 12:52 PM EST

Thats too bad i was hoping ole Bill would be getting the orientals out and getting the astroturf in at the US Ambassadors residence. Too much like hard work I suppose and as you declare 'Ireland's a diplomatic backwater'. Too small for the Clintons' ambitions..

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donbooker | Dec 01, 2012, 11:16 AM EST

'Headcase?' Unfortunate use of word when referring to someone with many obvious problems and in light of recent mental health issues in Ireland.

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