President Bill Clinton Buys Golfing Holiday Home in Ireland [ So Much for Legal Bills]

The Ireland Examiner ^ | July 10, 2003 | staff report

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Former United States President Bill Clinton has bought a holiday home at an exclusive Irish Golf Club it emerged today.

Mr. Clinton who was this week pictured playing golf at Royal County Down is expected to take over the duplex at the K Club in Kildare County later this summer.

His purchase includes two full memberships at the Irish course, which is host to the Ryder Cup Golf Competition [between the United States and Europe] in 2006.

He is said to have been invoved in negotiations with developers over a number of months and to have deferred the deal on several occasions.

Prices at the development range from about $950,000.00 to 1.4 Million.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I think the other membership may be for that Canadian Billionaire lovely that Bill has been recently following all around the globe.

More like Bill following her checkbook around, like a dog following a porkchop on a string.

Can't wait for the British tabloids to report what goes on in Bill's pied a terre'. Hillary will probably want to gasp for air and want to strangle him. ROTF!!!

[mikeb704]

Former United States President Bill Clinton has bought a holiday home at an exclusive Irish Golf Club it emerged today.

My guess is someone told him that he'd love the links and he thought the guy said sinks.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

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[CougarGA7]

Well, I will say this much. When I look at Hitlery, I can understand why he's going elsewhere to chase tail.

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Hillary may be in cardiac arrest when she hears about this story!

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And that book picture is with some heavy trick photography..

[Eala]

I think the phrase we are looking for is . . .
"Pog mo thòn!" Pronounced more or less "pawk moe hon"
This literally doesn't mean "kiss it" -- it means "kiss a certain part of my anatomy", i.e. "*&%^*%^ off!"

I know Ga\idhlig and not Gaeilge, but in the former it would directly translate to "Pog e."

(One of our classmates had the class in stitches when she used the phrase "Kiss me, leave me" in a role-playing exercise -- "Pog mi, fa\g mi!")

[aShepard]

And, when interviewed by the Belfast Times, Slick Willie exclaimed:

"Ah nevr done a freckley redhead yet, so's I thought I'd get me a pad in Ireland."

[CougarGA7]

They took it by candle light. Everyone looks better by candle light........Then they airbrushed the sh!* out of it.

[fishtank]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385418493/qid=1057851333/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1381497-8297759?v=glance&s=books

Your homework reading assignment.

[pabianice]

I HAVE to laugh when I think of all the Liberal lawyers and consultants who defended the Clintons and now will never get paid.

[AnAmericanMother]

Tha Gàidhlig Albannach agam. Ch'an ann ach beagan agam (ch'an ann annam ach Ameiricanach). :-D

I was just suggesting that it might be more useful to tell XXX42 to kiss a particular part of ones anatomy, rather than "it".

[MrConfettiMan]

Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on Monday announced that his government will donate $158.2 million over the next five years to the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation to purchase anti-HIV drugs to treat HIV-positive people in Mozambique, the Irish Examiner reports. The grant will allow health groups in Mozambique to treat up to 500,000 HIV-positive people. The Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative aims to help developing nations in implementing treatment, care, and prevention programs.

Hmmmm, could it be BillyJeff is trying to compete with Dubya in providing funds for AIDS relief in Africa?

[vikingcelt]

"You are not supposed to talk either religion or politics in an Irish pub. Didn't you know that?" Yes, I know that but I didn't start it and on 9/22/2001 I felt that I had a right and a duty to defend my country and the President of my country and I was simply not in the kind of mood to be told that we "needed to talk" to those who attacked the US on 9/11 and that we were the bad ones if we retaliated. Why do some Irish people (and lots of other people too) think that talking after a traumatic event of that magnitude will solve anything? Just exactly whom were we supposed to talk to anyway? People who want us all dead?

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I just saw an article from the other day where one firm in Washington was still looking for big time restitution from the grifters in the White House years.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Hillary may be in cardiac arrest when she hears about this story!

Hill's next book title: "It takes an Irish Village (to satisfy that man of mine)".

A plus for our side is that if Bill's behavior becomes outrageous enough, it might ruin Hillary's chances of continuing her political career. Will she save face by divorcing the bum and give up immunity from testifying; or stand by her man, and look like the power hungry hypocrite that she is? This is going to be fun!

[TheSpottedOwl]

They took it by candle light. Everyone looks better by candle light........Then they airbrushed the sh!* out of it.

Yep, bet the candles were black and there was a full moon that night, too :)

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Hillary will only get divorce after she is finished in politics, then she gives up her rights to not have to testify against Bill..

[Right Wing Professor]

'Kiss it' in Irish would be póg é or póg í, depending on whether the item to be kissed is masculine or feminine gender (Irish, like French, has no neuter).

Irish is not a difficult language, but I'd be astonished if Clinton were really trying to learn it.

RWP, who is disgusted the way the country has fallen apart since he left.

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How about 'put some ice on it' in Irish?