DONNYBROOK OVER CLINTON: Bill's Looking Bronzed and Sculpted

NY Daily News ^ | 10/26/01 | Rush and Molloy

[Liz]

The townsfolk of Ballybunion, Ireland, thought they had an irresistible magnet for American tourists when they erected the world's only statue of Bill Clinton. They have found out otherwise.

Former roller-rink owner Frank Quilter talked his fellow businessmen into coming up with $39,000 to create a bronze likeness of our former President whacking a golf ball. But now the villagers have discovered that some of their visitors are Republicans, who have nightly donnybrooks in the pubs over the statue.

"It drives them mad," Quilter says. Tees them off, you might say. Clinton has visited the town twice. Mike Scanlon, who caddied for him, claims there were no presidential mulligans. But Scanlon tells T&L Golf, "He has a reputation for dropping balls, but none of us were going to say anything." (Clinton's office has denied reports of links chicanery.)

Clinton, who has spent a grand total of two hours in the village, doesn't seem to have done much to get his countrymen to linger. "It's worse that business has gotten," grouses a local woman.

Back in Little Rock, Clinton Presidential Library president Skip Rutherford is trying to have a groundbreaking by the end of the year — despite protests over the demolition of an 1899 train depot built by former slaves.

"It's a freight depot," Rutherford told us, adding that the foundation has given more than $30 million to restore the nearby passenger station, railroad bridge and park.

There isn't a statue planned for Clinton's library. No need: The former chief executive's Elvis memorabilia will be a draw. "The president has a large collection" of hundreds of Elvis objects, says Rutherford. Among them: a dancing Elvis phone and an Elvis clock with pendulum legs.

"You know," said Rutherford, "the most frequently requested presidential picture is the one of Elvis with President Nixon." Yeah, but then you have to go to all that trouble cutting Nixon out.

[mountaineer]

I'm surprised there's no mention of the Hillary sculpture:

[tophat9000]

Ah, I for the day when they throw a rope around its neck and pull it down like they did in the fallen Soviet block with Marx and Lenin

[dead]

Might not have to wait too long! I just found this little amusing tidbit:

A quaint little seashore vacation village with the No I rated golf course outside the US of A, where Clinton played two years ago. They now have a lifesized statue to him. The locals refer to his statue as the "the prick with a stick".

[Freemyland]

I would swim the Atlantic for the chance.

[TEXASPROUD]

Oh mah Gawd!! Now I understand why the statue is still standing in one piece. They placed it in front of the local Garda "Police" station.

[Paul Atreides]

There isn't a statue planned for Clinton's library. No need: The former chief executive's Elvis memorabilia will be a draw. "The president has a large collection" of hundreds of Elvis objects, says Rutherford. Among them: a dancing Elvis phone and an Elvis clock with pendulum legs.

Tacky is as tacky does. What a rube!

[Liz]

.... Clinton Presidential Library president Skip Rutherford is trying to have a groundbreaking by the
end of the year — despite protests over the demolition of an 1899 train depot built by former slaves.

What? Where's the outrage? Jesse? Kweisi? Al? Whoopi? Anyone?

Disturbing sacred ground of former slaves? Sure looks like a "hate crime" to me....

[Liz]

What a rube!

Oh please. Do you think America is finally "getting it" that they elected a couple of hillbillies.

[Publius]

The statue should have sculpted from fertilizer.

[tacticalogic]

They need to saw that golf club off at the grip and add a sink to the statue.

[texasbluebell]

I wish I could post the picture of clinton and mcauliffe in the golf cart. They looked totally hungover, with their flabby bloated bodies barely sitting up, cigars hanging out of their mouths. Two wastrels, pale and pathetic. Clinton never looked like that statue. What a joke!

[mewzilla]

Thet should have cast the statue with a pose of the DIRTPOTUS taking a leak on the golf course. Wasn't this the place?

[bert]

>>>>Why doesn't one of the enterprising pub owners take Clinton's statue off the city's hands, install it in the Men's Room as a urinal and charge guys to take a piss on it!<<<< ,

That's what the LIEbrary's for.

People will come from all over to piss on the front steps or pour their samples on the carpets.

[Attillathehon]

Time for a few choruses of "Up went Nelson, I mean, Clinton in the morning."

[Charles Henrickson]

They need to saw that golf club off at the grip and add a sink to the statue.

Or add a sculpture of a knee-padded Monica.

And make the "club" very short. A putter, maybe. For miniature golf.

[NYCVirago]

There isn't a statue planned for Clinton's library. No need: The former chief executive's Elvis memorabilia will be a draw. "The president has a large collection" of hundreds of Elvis objects, says Rutherford. Among them: a dancing Elvis phone and an Elvis clock with pendulum legs.

Wow, Clinton has the Elvis clock, which cost $19.99 and is available at every two-bit souvenir shop within a hundred miles of Graceland. Whoopee!

[DebtsPaid]

In place of the golf club, it would be more suitable to show a desk with Monica's head sticking out.

[Happygal]

*ROFL*...They had to put it outside the Garda Station (cop shop) so they could keep an eye on him. Even cast in bronze you couldn't trust Clinton to keep out of mishcief! *L*
As for the shower in Ballybunion putting up this piece of `civic art', all I can say is...now you may finally understand where the Kerryman jokes originated!!!!! *ROFL*

[DebtsPaid]

What was it that PT Barnum always used to say?

[Happygal]

BTW...what is a `nightly donnybrook'. I'm Irish and I've never heard the expression before.