The Big Dawg has still got it

I'm no great fan of Bill Clinton. He's the one who started out this business of capitulation to Republicans (and look where that got him), he squandered a fair chunk of his presidency because he never really dealt with his childhood baggage, he's needy, he's a pain in the ass, and he was horrible to Barack Obama in the primaries.

That said, no one does overseas negotiation better (even if the unheralded involvement of the Secretary of State is going to give the Freepers fits about Klinton Konspiracies (and about Bill Clinton on a plane with two young women):

Former President Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday morning after a dramatic 20-hour visit, in which he won the freedom of two American journalists, opened a diplomatic channel to North Korea’s reclusive government and dined with the North’s ailing leader, Kim Jong-il.

Mr. Clinton departed from Pyongyang, the capital, around 8:30 a.m. local time, along with the journalists, Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, on a private jet bound for Los Angeles, according to a statement from the former president’s office.