Paisley denounces Bill Clinton

[jman0]

Former US President Bill Clinton was tonight denounced as a political has-been by the leader of the Democratic Unionists, the Reverend Ian Paisley.

The North Antrim MP launched a savage broadside at Mr Clinton after the former US President challenged, during a visit to Dublin, Mr Paisley`s claim that the Good Friday Agreement was dead.

Mr Paisley said: "The discredited ex-President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton, simply revealed his unmitigated cheek in going to a country that wants to destroy Ulster`s place in the United Kingdom and then lectures us that our democratic expression of our own future must be set aside to conform to the will of the country that claims supremacy over it.

"The Belfast Agreement, which in itself is devoid of democracy, has made it clear that we must have a new beginning, and that beginning must close and bar the gates of its government to terrorists of whatever side they come from.

"Clinton cannot have his way to force IRA / Sinn Fein terrorists into the government of this part of the United Kingdom, as I told him to his face when he was in Belfast."

Mr Clinton, who is in Dublin to help launch a national suicide prevention scheme for young people in the Irish Republic, insisted that there was no viable alternative to the Good Friday Agreement.
http://www.u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?pt=n&id=60670

Nice guy isn't he?

[trotsky]

1. Bill Clinton is revered as a hero throughout the world.

This guy is an idiot wanker.

[bemildred]

2. Swell. A beacon for the rest of us.

:banghead::puke:

[JerseygirlCT]

3. Paisley's a theocratic terrorist

So glad he feels the need to correct Clinton.

[Bridget Burke]

4. Paisley has links to Bush....

During the 2000 primaries, Bush's speech at Bob Jones University was considered a turning point. He'd lost New Hampshire to McCain & badly needed to win South Carolina. So, he spoke at Bob Jones, despite its history of racial & religious prejudice. And won the primary--using dirty tactics.

Bob Jones Sr was active in the campaign against (Catholic) Al Smith--long ago. Bob Jones Jr flew to Northern Ireland to give Ian Paisley an honorary degree on his release from prison. At the time, Catholics were fighting for Civil Rights in the North & Paisley was in stern opposition. This was just before the old IRA got involved. Paisley has spoken at BJU many times & two sons are on the faculty. Other recipients of BJU honors: George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Strom Thurmond & (more recently) John Ashcroft.


Bush invited Paisley to his first St Patrick's day celebration at the White House. His administration has not done much to foster the Good Friday Agreement--one of Clinton's accomplishments.

The Constitution of the Republic of Ireland once expressed the need to reunite the island as one country--this was removed. However, the Good Friday Agreement had officials from the Republic & the North working together in some matters.

And Paisley is wrong to refer to "Ulster." Three counties of the old province were excluded from Northern Ireland--too many Catholics.

[tanyev]

5. Discredited?

Sez who? I don't think a "discredited ex-president" would get so much attention from Poppy Bush, and even Dumbya.

[ChoralScholar]

11. It's interesting you should say that

My father said just a few days ago...

"It's the people that hate Clinton that make him so popular, and make sure he'll go down in history. They still can't quit talking about him, and he's been out of office for 5 years."

[lancdem]

14. Paisley's full of shit

Always has been. Anything he says about Clinton is laughable.

[coloradodem2005]

6. Yeah. I really care what he thinks.

[DivinBreuvage]

7. Paging Father Murphy... n/t

[MaineDem]

8. Now more people will see Paisley for what he is

A hateful, spiteful, nasty, arrogant man.

[aden_nak]

9. Hmmmm, there must be SOMETHING else I can blame Bill Clinton for. . .

[tabasco]

10. What a big surprise. A unionist asshole.

I hope someday that Ireland will be their own island without the colonist pigs like Paisley.

[mirandaod]

12. Scary old dinosaur.

It's shocking to me that anyone still listens to the old bastard, but they do. His party is doing way too well in NI.

[Binka]

13. Paisley Is A Hate Filled Fuckwittage

Get on board the RaptureMobile Paisley and drive off the cliff with the other fuckwits.

[xchrom]

15. shut up, paisley

go spend some time at the pig farm with bush shoveling shit.

[ourbluenation]

16. who cares what that tired old orangeman has to say about anything

isn't he dead yet?

[MisterP]

17. I thought it said "Paisley denounces small children"

wouldn't be surprised.
"Ian, you give Protestants, Europeans, and hominoids a bad name!"

[DS1]

18. Sounds like just another IRA apologist asshole to me

:eyes:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Wow, even GOING TO DUBLIN is bad for this nutcase???

What does he want, that the UK annex the entire island again?

[AP]

20. A badge of honor.

[Chimpeach]

21. double dip of shit

eom

[patcox2]

22. Paisley's a bigoted, spittle-emittting racist who is completely irrelevant

Really, who gives a flying rats ass what the leader of the ulster nutjob anti-catholic rabble has to say about anything?

[Kelvin Mace]

23. Northern Ireland is Britain's last colonial holding

and has Ireland been a vassal state for about 800 years. There will never be peace in Ireland until Britain gets out and stays out. I do not approve of terrorism by either side, but the Protestants in NI are simply wrong, morally and ethically.