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Talk about a bad week.
Hillary Clinton may be riding high in the U.S. following her showing in Texas and Ohio, but she’s taking a beating in the British press this week.
First was a report in London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper that quoted former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, as saying that Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and that she was a “wee bit silly” for exaggerating the part she played.
“I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland,” she told CNN. But Trimble and other negotiators who helped broker the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 told the Daily Telegraph that her role was peripheral and that she played no part in the grueling political talks over the years.
“I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill Clinton going around,” Trimble said. “I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player.”
What might be worse is a column by Andrew Sullivan in the London Times newspaper with the headline: “The Clintons, a horror film that never ends.”
“The Clintons have always had a touch of the zombies about them: unkillable, they move relentlessly forward, propelled by a bloodlust for Republicans or uppity Democrats who dare to question their supremacy,” Sullivan wrote. “You can’t escape; you can’t hide; and you can’t win. And these days, in the kinetic pace of the YouTube campaign, they are like the new 28 Days Later zombies. They come at you really quickly, like bats out of hell. Or Ohio, anyway.”
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