Tony Blair has penned a six-page introduction to the American version of his blood money memoirs, in which he had this to say about recent U.S. presidents:
‘Mere mortals are still inspired by a certain awe,’ he gushes.
Bill Clinton is ‘an extraordinary mixture of easygoing charm and ferocious intellectual capacity. Probably … he is the most formidable politician I ever met.’ President Bush ‘has great intuition.’ And of Barack Obama, he says: ‘The personal character is clear: this is a man with steel in every part of him.’
Stay classy Blair.
Meanwhile he’s been pelted with eggs and shoes at a book signing in Ireland:
Skirmishes broke out between protesters and police at the first public signing for Tony Blair’s memoirs, with shoes and eggs hurled at the former prime minister.
Protesters shouted … “Hey hey Tony hey, how many kids have you killed today?”
“It really is shameful that somebody can be responsible for the death and destruction that he was responsible for in Iraq and Afghanistan and walk away without any accounting for that and become a very wealthy man off the back of it.”