Clinton’s Coup, Obama’s Dilemma

Oh get real George. This isn’t a dilemma for President Obama no matter how hard you spin it. The Koreans realize they screwed up. Nothing wrong with letting them save a little face while they may straighten up and realize they are better off without the nuclear B.S.

Oh a real delimma, we talk with countries. I thought he campaigned on this.

My question is who paid for this trip by Clinton and the girls- taxpayers or Al Gore who should be paying as these stupid individuals work for him!!

Negotiations, dignity, cooperation, and success. What a concept! Credit where credit is due. We have a good President. We have a good Secretary of State and we have a wonderful ex president. Things around the world could start running smoothly for a change.

Do you really think that President Obama had nothing to do with this? I have a bridge to sell you! How on earth would a Private citizen like Bill Clinton get to “waltz” into NK to free those Women? Stop trying to start somthing and give credit to both men for sticking their necks out to bring home citizens. Thats what good and effective Presidents do!

I think it is silly to paint this as a dilemma for President Obama. It’s called diplomacy. I realize it looks so strange b/c we are used to 8 years of “you’re either with us or against us!: bomb them until they say uncle” foreign policy, but this is what the american people voted for. This may make the talking head’s jobs more difficult, but I have confidence that you guys will figure out how to make it work. Hopefully you’ll dump all the retired generals you’ve hired as “analysts” and go round up some real foreign policy experts and we can start having substantive discussions in the country again. This is a victory for the Obama Administration and a wonderful moment for the journalists and their families period.
Regarding those hikers now captive in Iran, has anyone bothered to find out what the heck those hikers were thinking? Who goes hiking in a war zone?

Can’t we just celebrate a happy ending? I am so thankful we finally have grown-ups in charge!

Regarding those hikers now captive in Iran, has anyone bothered to find out what the heck those hikers were thinking? Who goes hiking in a war zone?
wsb – Bethesda, MD
The same kind of people who think its smart to run around the Chinese/N. Korean Border!

I wouldn’t have wanted my daughters riding alone in a plane with that leecherous old man…once again it looks like the government is just going to cave into any and every demand made by a foreign country…odrama’s got none

What a can of worms this has opened! Does the administration really not think that every rogue nation will demand the same respect and attention? Here we go!

No matter what good the Obama administration and the democrats do, the republicans are going to be critical.
Too criticize bringing those two girls home is outrageous. And they are suppose to be the FAMILY VALUE party. Baloney!

Give credit where due. Of course there was groundwork from Obama, State Dept, and others prior to Bill Clinton’s effort.Obviously, he wouldn’t have gone if certain assurances didn’t exist.
This is a huge plus for both the Clintons and Obama not to mention the 2 reporters who are now free.
This had to be accomplished “privately”, hence Bill’s friend Bing supplied a private jet. This was well done by all and it proves that using the Clinton’s was a plus for all concerned. The Clinton’s are terrific.
The right wing will put this effort down and say stupidly, “we don’t negotiate with terrorists”. Their position to critize anything this administration does,along with an added new twist of sending shills and political operatives [reminiscent of Gore/Bush thugs] to disrupt and intimidate Democratic meetings on healthcare.
Nevertheless when everyone in the administration is on the same page and uses all available talent to craft a strategy, we see something terrific like the release of two reporters.
I believe Obama must come to realize the GOP is toxic and not ready to see a doctor.

George… N. Korea new what he was doing… he followed the DOTS
Journalists …to Al Gore…to Bill Clinton…to Hilary Clinton… to President Obama Just follow the dots… it worked!!!!

welcome home…too bad we couldnt keep politics out of this. What a touching moment how Ms. Ling talked about walking through the door to a “meeting” and Bill Clinton is standing there. I didn’t care for him too much but this was a good moment for all. And the hugs with the family off the plane…it just made you feel good.
Why does everything have to be so negative? Rejoice for a change.

Jeanine wrote:
USS Cole, First World Trade center bombing, Khobar Towers and freedom to plan 9/11. Yeah, I do miss the peace and diplomacy under Bill Clinton. The world truly understood and appreciated his ability to talk
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You may miss the peace, but under his watch all of the bad things you mentioned happened was being orchestrated. As a good talker Bill did not pay attention and let his guard down..Now we have a GREAT talker…hmmmm

I am happy that the two ladies are back safe.
What price will the USA pay for this stupidity.
Clinton scores some face time on international news. If these ladies had not been doing illegal work for Mr.Gore who seems to not get enough publicity, these two would have never been an issue. Chalk it up to Gores ego.
You can trace almost all the trouble happening in the USA today back to the Clinton Era. Nafta, Failed Health Legislation, deregulation of utilities and banks , etc etc. Whitewater relived.
Now the neophyte Obama wants to follow in the masters shoeprints.

This was a regrettable loss from a number of points of view.
Aside from the childishness of our new, unfortunate administration, which absurdly thinks it can charm the world with the same puerile drivel he provoked nitwits in sufficient number to vote him in (most of these delta minuses now experiencing buyers’ remorse, big time), we have kowtowed to a rogue government that has slapped us in the face publicly a half-dozen times since the start of this numbnuts administration [that is quickly bankrupting the US and sending us into inflationary overdrive].
We have given props to a dictator starving millions and selling nuclear secrets and missile tech to our direst enemies. Despite our warnings, he has laughed at us, and continues to arm our worst foreign affairs problems: Syria, China, Iran. We have given street cred to a pornographer and unbounded gourmand who has ignored his people’s lifeneeds since his advent began, taking over from his equally corrupt and cruel father, Kim Il Sung.
We have now also encouraged the continued figleaf cover for kidnapping our nitwit citizens and so-called journalists–a readymade excuse to garner world press and ink and photogs with the snap of a court order.
Calling Bill Clinton, folks? Just kidnap and falsely charge our dazed citizens wandering around without a clue. The leftist lib ‘hikers’ who somehow ignored the warnings of guards not to cross into unfriendly borders are another opportunity to humble and abase the US–and just watch the dreadful, naive Mr White House waste more hyperbolic press ops (and our fast-eroding tolerance) on trying to spring these indigenous Marxist boneheads-with-an-agenda. This time, his efforts will not resolve with an embarrassing and cheapening effort like a pointless beerfest on the lawn. How low we have fallen, with a president who so little understands the nuances of international diplomacy, and crawls and humbles the US to every tinpot cracker the world over.
This hugely embarrassing administration cannot end too soon. Of course, however soon it ends, we will have been financially, economically, diplomatically, governmentally and even sociologically compromised.
A success? A swift gander at the ashen face of our former president will show his opinion of this joyride into the darkness of the DPRK.
Luckily, the opinions expressed by so many children on this thread is dismissible as wishful thinking, unrelated to reality, fact or history. Alas, these are the people who continue to support this strange and unsupportable administration.

FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON WAS A VERY WELL LIKE PERSON TO THE WHOLE WORLD HE SPEAKES FROM THE HEART. I WISH WE COULD HAVE THE CLINTON WHITE HOUSE BACK, THAT WAS EIGHT YEARS, I THOUGHT OF THE BEST OUR NATION WAS. IF IT TAKES A FORMER PRESIDENT TO SAVE A LIFE SO BE IT. HIM AND HIS WIFE ARE THE BEST OUR GOVERMENT HAVE RIGHT NOW.