Now that Bill Clinton’s been out of office for a few years, what’s he doing? We have seen him traipsing around Harlem, stumping for one cause or another. We’ve seen him paired with Bush 41, making nice with the political Center and raising money and resources for tsunami relief. Now he wants his William J. Clinton Foundation to partner with the American Heart Association "stop the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity" in the United States by 2010. I guess that means no more trips to McDonald’s…
He certainly wants to stay in the public eye and in the headlines … but for what? Several sources, including (most exhaustively, the Washington Post) have reported that his dream job is Secretary-General of the United Nations. From Leader of the Free World to Leader of the Whole World, why not? Under his assignment of coordinator for tsunami relief, he has already been given a United Nations office, a UN identity card and diplomatic passport. Kofi Annan’s second five-year term officially ends Jan 1 2007, but with the oil-for-food issue that still doesn’t seem completely resolved, his tenure may be over sooner than that.
To be honest, I hadn’t thought about Bill Clinton as UN Secretary-General until a friend mentioned it this weekend, and compared to the blistering personalities of Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and Javier de Perez de Cuellar, Bill would be a breath of fresh air, don’t you think?
(And yes, there are internships available at the UN. I looked it up http://www.un.org ) Only half-kidding, NATHAN
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