Ban Ki-moon, South Korea’s foreign minister, is Kofi Annan’s much-awaited successor. Clicking around some online backgrounders, I found this bit of trivia from far back in his past…
…he once got his picture taken with President Kennedy, along with other highschoolers in the VISTA program. Think that’ll help tip things our way in the UN in the coming years? Someone who grew up seeing CARE packages everywhere, and who got glad-handed by our most mythic modern President must have received some kind of imprint from all that.
(photo is from the Chosun Ilbo newspaper)
Big deal. I shook hands with Kennedy, and look how I turned out.
Clinton had his pic taken with kennedy too.
Well Clinton definitely followed in at least one of Kennedy’s footsteps…
Rather poorly.
– We can’t be sure. Monica never gave a detailed rating, other than he likes cigars, prefers the kneeling position, and is definately a “lefty”.
I’m more thinking Monica vs. Monroe. Means Clinton was a rather poor imitator.
Yeah, a lefty with about five-and-a-half inches of piledriving power.
Let me put it this way: We’ve got a good chance of bringing the UN back to its senses, so long as Ban Ki-moon doesn’t read this thread.
Someone who grew up seeing CARE packages everywhere…
..is never going to forgive us.
You forget Kennedy as he was then would be more like Lieberman today. And you know where Lieberman is–kicking progressive ass.
Guess I’m old, but what besides the obvious does “lefty” mean?
TW: steps38 too many…
Means Clinton was a rather poor imitator.
Not sure. Has anyone ever seen pictures of Fiddle and Faddle?
JFK wasn’t exactly particular if one believes even a third of Hersh’s accounts of the pool parties.
SMG
Lefty…
Imagine a tree that grows all by itself in the middle of a field. It would grow straight and tall.
Now imagine a tree that grows in someone’s cellar with a source of sunlight that gradually moves to 5 feet to the *left* of where the tree is planted.
Now imagine that Bill Clinton’s penis is curved to the left.
Gawd, mgroves, thanks, though now I am aflicted with a nameless horror…
Your not a true Kennedy unless you have been responsible for a young womans death. Clinton has got a ways to go there (as far as we can prove) and Vince Foster is not a young woman and does not count. Oh and Hillary is not going to count either……sorry slickWilly. Plus you need to ride her all the way back to the white house…….pun intended.
Nope. The one thing you never get from a welfare recipient is gratitude. Just complaints about the size of the check.
– Most asked question if Hillery were to make it to the WH somehow:
“….Anyone seen Bill?”
Let’s see, Kofi Annan, screwed up UN operations at Srebenica and Kigali (Rwanda) when he was
head of that department, so naturally, some one
who presided over the horrible “sunshine” bribe
policy with N. Korea, gets promoted, as a reward;
(Oh, and by the way, BSG almost redeemed itself
from last week’s episode)