Walk on by Citizen Bertie

The passport story allowed the Taoiseach’s extraordinary U-turn to slip back

AT the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal Bill Clinton still had the nerve to say that even presidents have the right to a private life.

That assertion would have been perfectly fine if he hadn’t just seduced the work experience girl in the Oval Office and then blatantly lied about it after hypocritically exploiting the image of being a loving family man whose marriage was back on track.