George Dubya makes me glad there isn’t a drop of oil here

WATCHING the interview with former US president Bill Clinton on the BBC’s Panorama programme the other night, it was inevitable to compare him with the present incumbent. George Dubya Bush came third.

It may not have been too plain during the 50-minute interview with David Dimbleby that Bill Clinton regretted the Monica Lewinsky affair, until the name of Kenneth Starr came up.

Understandably, he became rattled and angry at the persecution he and those around him were subjected to by the special prosecutor, and the rabid Republicans who were hounding him over his relations, or lack of them, with "that woman".