WTF is Bill Clinton doing in NK?

[balli]

double post

[clambake]

This thread:

Idiot: WTF is Bill Clinton doing in N. Korea? Something about bicuits.

Idiot #2: Asian Women

Idiot #3: It's a Global Warming scheme

Rational human: He's there to negotiate the release of imprisoned Americans.

Rational Human: They've been released.

Idiot #4: ... Hillary.

idiot #4 is a bitter vaginahurt

[Crookshanks]

idiot #4 is a bitter vaginahurt

And you are an idiot prick - so we're even.

[balli]

I too have a passionate dislike for Idiot #4.

[Crookshanks]

I too have a passionate dislike for Idiot #4.

And the feeling is mutual! You're even more of an idiot than clam - you're a waste of oxygen.

[clambake]

at least she knows she's idiot #4.

[ElNono]

I hope he warns them about partisan hacks before he leaves...

[SonOfAGun]

Balli is my beacon of all things rational.

[DarrinS]

News is breaking that Clinton got them out.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapc...ton/index.html

[DarrinS]

If this photo was taken by a NK digital camera, I'm not worried about their nuclear tech.


That thing looks like it was broadcast on circa 1974 TV.

[clambake]

News is breaking that Clinton got them out.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapc...ton/index.html

good morning.

[Stringer_Bell]

How did the journalists "accidentally" wander into the craziest ing country in the world? Does anyone know if they were working on some kind of expose for CNN? Or possibly the Tyra Banks show?

Congrats to Bill for getting the job done when Hillary was supposed to be the one wearing the pants, anyone else think Kim sees women as inferior?

[hater]

If this photo was taken by a NK digital camera, I'm not worried about their nuclear tech.


That thing looks like it was broadcast on circa 1974 TV.

looks like the Korean leader got some luvin oval office style

[CubanMustGo]

I find it amusing to be considered a right winger now just because I had the temerity to take exception to something done by a former Democratic president. Idiot, I'm used to ... but anyone who thinks the US Gov't has nothing to do with this trip is an idiot, too.

Here's the drill:

KIS wants attention.
KIS throws a tantrum, launches some missiles, nobody does much of anything.
KIS arrests a couple of American journalists and throws them in jail.
Ex-US President shows up to plead for release of journalists.
KIS, in a display of "humanitarian and peace-loving policy," releases the journalists, now that he has gotten someone meaningful to kowtow to his desires.
NK media use the episode to once again prove that KIS is a god and that he can get the imperialist lackeys to do whatever he wants them to do.

I'm glad Clinton was able to get the two released - but in so doing, the US once again has fallen into the trap that is so typical of US-NK relations over the last couple of decades. It's too bad the journalists put the US in this 'must negotiate' position in the first place.

[DarrinS]

I knew Clinton could do it.

Bill just promised Kim he'd bring that blonde "babe" back for another "Hags gone wild!" party.

[Trainwreck2100]

That fat one's husband is gonna be pissed, there goes 12 years of sympathy lays

[DarrinS]

looks like the Korean leader got some luvin oval office style

They somehow managed to make Kim 10 years younger, 6 inches taller, and Bill 10 years older. That's a strange image.

[balli]

Does anyone know if they were working on some kind of expose for CNN? Or possibly the Tyra Banks show?

Actually Al Gore's channel, Current.

But shhhhh, if any of the hacks had bothered to read a news story, they'd have known this awhile ago and started ing about it early on page 1.

[Stringer_Bell]

They somehow managed to make Kim 10 years younger, 6 inches taller, and Bill 10 years older. That's a strange image.

Are we playing along like it's not photoshopped?

[ChumpDumper]

Actually Al Gore's channel, Current.

But shhhhh, if any of the hacks had bothered to read a news story, they'd have known this awhile ago and started ing about it early on page 1.

Quite an incurious lot.

[hater]

Are we playing along like it's not photoshopped?

that's the worst part. If it was photochoped it would look better. Looks like NK can't even affort a Pshop license. they used MS paint

[DarrinS]

I like Kim's jumpsuit, but why does it have nipples?

[baseline bum]

This thread:

Idiot: WTF is Bill Clinton doing in N. Korea? Something about bicuits.

Idiot #2: Asian Women

Idiot #3: It's a Global Warming scheme

Rational human: He's there to negotiate the release of imprisoned Americans.

Rational Human: They've been released.

Idiot #4: ... Hillary.

[sam1617]

Former presidents travel for non-government sanctioned diplomatic missions all the time. Get over it.

Not all former presidents are married to the current Sec of State. I'm just saying that if a spouse of the Sec of State goes to a foreign nation to negotiate something, chances are the vast majority of the world is going to view that person as being sent by the US even if the US claims differently.

[ChumpDumper]

I find it amusing to be considered a right winger now just because I had the temerity to take exception to something done by a former Democratic president. Idiot, I'm used to ... but anyone who thinks the US Gov't has nothing to do with this trip is an idiot, too.

Here's the drill:

KIS wants attention.
KIS throws a tantrum, launches some missiles, nobody does much of anything.
KIS arrests a couple of American journalists and throws them in jail.
Ex-US President shows up to plead for release of journalists.
KIS, in a display of "humanitarian and peace-loving policy," releases the journalists, now that he has gotten someone meaningful to kowtow to his desires.
NK media use the episode to once again prove that KIS is a god and that he can get the imperialist lackeys to do whatever he wants them to do.

I'm glad Clinton was able to get the two released - but in so doing, the US once again has fallen into the trap that is so typical of US-NK relations over the last couple of decades. It's too bad the journalists put the US in this 'must negotiate' position in the first place.

1) I think you mean KJI.

2) The arrests were made before the missile launches.

3) What else would we do but negotiate?