I watched Laura Ling and Euna Lee, get off Bill Clinton’s big white airplane that he borrowed from his friend Bing when it arrived at the hanger at Burbank Airport.
I watched Al Gore hugging people — Clinton; one of the two girls – this after I had watched Bill walk down the steps from the airplane and stand basking in adoration. I watched all the hugging and tear-jerking reunions and all the warm fuzzies that were going on and listened to some CNN reporter telling us what we were looking at.
She was lying.
We were looking at two dumb, “members of the media” — bargaining chips — who should have been left where they were because eventually they would have returned to their homeland, one way or another, bargaining chips always are. These two work for some lawyer, an ambulance chaser fronted by Al Gore … a minor television service, I gather.
I watched Laura Ling wresting the glory from her big sister Lisa (who is a legit media person) while crying and blubbering, playing on the nations heartstrings. I saw pictures, flashed on the screen, of Bill Clinton sitting next to that little ratfink Kim Jong-Il which in itself was enough to undermine the United States even if the two twits hadn’t got caught where they should never have been in the first place. Did they somehow think their names were Amanpour?
Amatures, one holding a camera … and one doing some kind of dance and flitting to and fro between the China/North Korea border. Meanwhile here was Obama –trying, along with five other countries — to curb Kim Jong il from completing a nuclear device on a rocket capable of doing great harm, most likely so that he could job his technology to the likes of Hugo Chavez, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, and the leaders of the rogue terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan including Al Qaida. And at a sensitive time: to wit – Kim testing rockets. Then … along comes Clinton on his white airplane (horse) and rescues a couple of stupid little girls. (Laura needs help reading copy).
The Secretary of State has been diminished in the eyes of many by association. The United States has been diminished in the eyes of many by falling for such an obvious PR stunt — bowing to a renegade leader. What kind of message did that send the world? Huh?
Obama was weakened — he has to accept the blame for part of the whole mess but as it turned out this was a coup by the Clintons and a slap on the face to the man who beat one of them and fought with the other during the campaign of 2008. This was “gotcha”. It was worse; it was dealing with a terrorist. It was disgusting and a blow from which Obama may not recover.
He has been one-upped at a time when his major push in Congress is to pass an important piece of legislation (The Health Bill) that could have implications resulting in busting his chances of governing in the manner of which he has chosen to govern, be it right or wrong. He’s been horns-waggled by Clinton, Gore, a hedonistic head of state and two twit nincompoops who should never have been near a mic or a camera in the first place.
And the sad part of it is… they will make millions because the gauzy, glamour-guzzling American Mainstream Media will sit back and make sure that these two are kept in the spotlight. Their books will get more free publicity than warrants a titanic work of fiction. Meanwhile
Clinton looked more asinine than he did trying to lie his way out of his infamous sex scandal. Bury the s-o-b, Barry. Great God… what would Walter Cronkite have thought?
