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Bill Clinton as Secretary General of the United Nations?

Grendel's Mother

12:32 / 07.02.05

Jesse Helms, a terribly conservative former U.S. senator, has been sending around a fund-raising letter that refers to the supposidly pending threat of Bill Clinton becoming Secretary General of the U.N. next year. I find the prospect fascinating, because if there's one politician in the U.S. that the Republican party fears, it's Clinton. So, could the world get a perverse kind of revenge on Bush by putting Clinton in charge of the U.N.?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

16:43 / 07.02.05

I don't understand why Republicans don't like Clinton. I assume it's because he's a leftish-wing Republican that insists on calling himself a Democrat. Whether the UN would take on a representative from a country that has spent the last four years explicitly trying to undermine and destablise them and has said they should all pack up and go home is another matter.

sleazenation

22:13 / 07.02.05

Well the UN have already appointed him the UN's tsunami envoy... but that notwithstanding I think this is a non-starter...

Axolotl

08:39 / 08.02.05

I don't think that with the current geo-political situation that the U.N would appoint an American as its Secretary-General. Though I suppose it could be seen as a way of slapping Bush and his cronies down peg or two.

fluid_state

17:19 / 09.02.05

Well, it could be a response to the last month's talk of firing Kofi Annan. And a damn funny one at that.

ibis the being

21:05 / 09.02.05

I don't understand why Republicans don't like Clinton.

I've assumed it's because he's a glaring exception in their decades of political dominance.

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