Bill Clinton Potrait

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The world must be near its end when an art appreciation thread appears in After Hours...

It's a fine painting, showing his decline to a generally very positive Irish audience which is well aware of the enormous power he once had. Very humbling. The man is almost 73 and he is, as many people have pointed out, looking noticeably frailer these days.

I distinctly recall his election being a breath of fresh air in Ireland in the early 1990s. He was a very good friend to the Irish economy and he made a critical judgment call when he decided to back the Peace Process against enormous British lobbying. Hume at the time was enduring a barrage of abuse on a quotidian basis from O'Reilly's Independent rags, most notably the Sunday Independent. And when Clinton sided with Ted Kennedy, Bruce Morrison, Chris Dodd etc, and a number of wealthy Irish Americans - Chuck Feeney, Bill Flynn and Donald Keough spring immediately to mind - it tipped the balance enormously in favour of the Hume-Adams Agreement/Peace Process succeeding.

That Clinton's Republican opponents decided to focus on his sex life as the major stick to beat him showed them up to be backward little troglodytes. Surely they could have found something much more serious to base impeachment proceedings upon?