Next you’ll be telling us this isn’t really all those musicians’ favourite place to play.

They all do the same, they say what the people of the country they’re in want to hear. I’m sure Obama has someone to translate “Yes we can” into whatever native language he happens to be in at the time. It wasn’t just for us.

Durty slut

We should have know after the Monica Lewinsky incident that we could never trust him to stay faithful to Ireland. When the Greek government ask him about his Irish connections connections he will probably say! I never had a business relationship with that country.

Is Clinton being paid for these comments?

If anyone wants a laugh look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erYpXzE9Pxs&feature=youtube_gdata_player,

it turns out Ireland isn’t the only country that Obama thinks it punches above its weight.

Thats Bill. Rhodes scholar or was it Rode scholars.

Typical American leaders, they pretend to be everyones best friend we believe in you…. Fake.

Vulture capitalist

He is a fine one to talk when he helped cause the financial crisis in the first place by deregulating the banks.

He repealed legislation that was brought in after the great depression forbidding retail banks to act as investment banks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm–Leach–Bliley_Act

Politics is a game and slick Bill is a master. Honesty and Integrity are possible strategies but generally do not win the game. Charm and the ability to speak your audience’s language (metaphorically, though literally always wins kudos -ref Queen E’s few words and of course Obama) and either feed fear or butter up egos are much more successful approaches in the game of politics.

Well said mark

Clinton won’t die in his bed!

Us Irish need to get over ourselves, most people around the world still think of the Irish as greedy, stupid, drunks. I regularly come across people in my work from outside Ireland who have this opinion of us. When we see people from around the world celebrating st. Patrick’s day is mainly because they have a relation with Ireland or like my wife who was from Hong Kong think its a US holiday.

Why would Clinton tie his rep to Ireland only?

Actually, he is a shareholder of Noble Energy, the company that has the agreement with Cyprus to get their oil and natural gas out.
And Greece is actually full of both oil and gas, amongst other (plenty) valuable things.
He was basically there (besides everything else) to make sure that the Greeks will make the right choice when issuing licenses for these resources to be exploited.
And of course, he was there to tell the government that things in Syria are speeding up, and that they should be sensible and choose the right side (first of all), and then provide all the help that will be requested from them.
Besides the financial crisis and all, there are some pretty major events underway.
So, there will probably be many more people coming to the area, as there are huge and conflicting interests, and lots of things are at stake…