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"Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists against the DPRK after illegally intruding into it," the news agency reported. "Clinton courteously conveyed to Kim Jong Il an earnest request of the U.S. government to leniently pardon them and send them back home from a humanitarian point of view.

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Former President Bill Clinton met Tuesday with the two journalists jailed in North Korea, as he wrapped up the first day of his high-stakes mission to win their release. A U.S. official confirmed to FOX News that Clinton met with Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the reporters sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor after North Korea accused them of sneaking into the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts."

Yes, you read that right. I wasn’t a big fan of the 42nd president, his personal behavior, or his policies. In terms of foreign policy, while I would consider Clinton’s intentions to be good, in so many ways he was a failure, e.g., Middle East (Oslo Accord) and especially North Korea. (And Secretary of State Madeline Albright was certainly no help.) But today the former president is in North Korea again, trying to get Kim Jong-(mentally) Il to release two detained American reporters, as AP reports: Clinton was in communist North Korea on a mission to secure the freedom of...

Here is a video report and discussion with Mike Chinoy on former President Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea where he has met with reclusive Dictator Kim Jong Il. The video shows photos of Clinton's face-to-face meeting today with Kim Jong Il. Clinton is seeking to win the release of American Journalists imprisoned there. The health of Kim Jong Il has been in question of late, but the photos in the video show him looking better than expected. Chinoy believes the Americans are likely to be released following the trip. He doubts Clinton would have ever made the trip unless...

Here is a video report on former President Bill Clinton arriving in North Korea to reportedly seek the release of two American Journalists held by the North Koreans in prison. The two were convicted by North Korea of illegally entering the country, and were sentenced to 12 years hard labor. North Korea is led by the maniacal dictator Kim Jong Il. Let's hope Clinton can succeed on this mission. The conditions those two women have had to live in since March are undoubtedly horrific. Below is raw video of Bill Clinton's arrival in North Korea . . . . ....

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The Obama administration is rewarding North Korea for its bad behavior by sending ex-president Bill Clinton to Pyongyang to win the release of two US journalists, the former US ambassador to the UN said Tuesday. John Bolton, an outspoken hardliner in the previous administration of George W. Bush, told AFP that Clinton's mission to Pyongyang undermines a number of public stands held by his own wife, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "It comes perilously close to negotiating with terrorists," Bolton told AFP when asked about Bill Clinton's trip to secure the release of journalists Laura Ling...

August 4. 2009, Juche 98 Bill Clinton Arrives Here Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- Bill Clinton, former president of the United States, and his party arrived here Tuesday by air. They were greeted by Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, and Kim Kye Gwan, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs. A little girl presented a bouquet to Bill Clinton.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Bill Clinton may no longer occupy the White House, but the abortion advocate can still make use of his fundraising prowess. Clinton penned an email fundraising pitch for the big pro-abortion group Emily's List that it sent out today to its members. The email focuses on the 2010 Congressional elections and Clinton asks abortion advocates to give Emily's List money to supports it efforts to keep pro-abortion stalwarts in control of the House. "We can't afford to lose our Democratic majority in 2010, and women -- our nation's most progressive force -- will be crucial to...

Note: The following text is a quote: Former President Clinton Visits CIA July 27, 2009 Former President Bill Clinton visited the Central Intelligence Agency today to thank the men and women of CIA for their essential work in protecting the United States from foreign threats. Welcoming the former President back to CIA, Director Leon E. Panetta said: “President Clinton understood very well the role of intelligence and its vital importance in the post-Cold War era. He relied on this Agency for information and insight, as he and his team confronted an array of foreign challenges.” In remarks to hundreds of...

Former President Bill Clinton is one of the featured speakers at today’s inaugural “Weight of the Nation” conference in Washington, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control to focus on obesity prevention and control. Clinton’s battles with his own weight, of course, are famous -- punctuated by fast-food runs during the early days of his presidency, and the heart bypass operation he needed to undergo in 2004. How to fuel up for an appearance like today’s conference? According to The Washington Post’s “Reliable Source” column (which has the photo to prove it), the former president waited in line Saturday night...

Here is video of former President Bill Clinton in a speech today saying to those who are questioning the Democrats' plan to bring Government Health Care to America: "Give me a break!" Clinton, looking over his glasses like a college professor, lectured the crowd that "this generation of kids" won't be saved if the health care bill does not pass. Clinton said "it's kind of fun to sit up in the peanut gallery and watch who the manager sends up to strike out the other side." But he said this debate matters for the health of the American people. ....

Debt MattersOver the last two decades it became an article of popular faith that budget deficits did not matter that much. Conservatives began to talk of annual red-ink in vague terms of percentages of the gross domestic product rather than in real billions of dollars — as in “Don’t worry about the 2004 shortfall of $605 billion; it’s still only 5.3 percent of GDP.”Ronald Reagan ran large deficits; so for a while did Bill Clinton. Both Bushes did every year. And Barack Obama, who admittedly came to office amid a liquidity crisis that called for fiscal stimulus, trumped them all...

Today’s NY Times carries a story on Hillary’s efforts to regain her stature as Secretary of State after she failed to accompany Obama on his trip to Russia, and talk she was being elbowed aside by the White House. The Times puff piece follows an earlier story in the same vein from AFP via Breitbart. Island Turtle covered the changing relationship between the two in an article last week entitled: Is Secretary of State Clinton on the way out? The Times story describes her speech yesterday to the Council on Foreign Relations as a muscular approach, especially on Iran, and...

Black Frat Inducts Bill Clinton as Honorary Member By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS July 10, 2009 NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A historically black fraternity has voted to induct former President Bill Clinton as an honorary member. Phi Beta Sigma President Paul Griffin Jr. said Friday that Clinton is the first U.S. president to be inducted into a historically black fraternity. The fraternity voted Tuesday for Clinton's induction at its 95th Anniversary Conclave in New Orleans, La. Stevie Wonder, Al Roker, the Rev. Al Sharpton and jazz musician Ramsey Lewis are also honorary members of Phi Beta Sigma. The fraternity was founded...

Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain? Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for...

I remember all of the reverberations from the Dems during the Lewinsky affair that "it was only sex," and that "it's his private life" and that "it doesn't affect his job performance." Well, if this is true, then why is it only true for Democrats?

Bill Clinton’s Wild Night In Buenos Aires Oops, he did it again... Former US President Bill Clinton reportedly spent a wild lecherous night in Buenos Aries strip clubs, taking a shine to certain Argentine stripper/porn star there. The report, printed in mainstream newsoutlets The Washington Post and The Daily Mail, is all the talk in South and Latin America. Clinton, in Buenos Aries to raise money for his Clinton Global Initiative, later dined with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband, former president Néstor Kirchner. Afterwards, the “randy” and pot-smoking former president decided to go, along with some of...

Bill Clinton’s Wild Night In Buenos Aires Oops, he did it again... Former US President Bill Clinton reportedly spent a wild lecherous night in Buenos Aries strip clubs, taking a shine to certain Argentine stripper/porn star there. The report, printed in mainstream newsoutlets The Washington Post and The Daily Mail, is all the talk in South and Latin America. Clinton, in Buenos Aries to raise money for his Clinton Global Initiative, later dined with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband, former president Néstor Kirchner. Afterwards, the “randy” and pot-smoking former president decided to go, along with some of...

Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee gala banquet dinner in Washington Saturday, June 13, 2009. ADC President Mary Rose Oakar, right, and Dr. Jack Shaheen listen. Former President Bill Clinton is seen in the background as the Fisk Jubilee Singers sing 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' during a memorial service for John Hope Franklin at Duke Chapel on the Duke University campus in Durham, N.C. Thursday, June 11, 2009. Franklin, a Durham native and the nation's preeminent scholar of black history, died March 25, 2009 US Former President Bill Clinton receives a gift from a group of...

CINCINNATI (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton says the need to push for racial equality is far from over. Clinton said Saturday that despite such racial progress as the election of Barack Obama as president, economic, educational and other social divides remain. Clinton spoke at Major League Baseball's Beacon Awards luncheon in Cincinnati. As president, he took part in a 1997 ceremony retiring Jackie Robinson's No. 42 uniform number.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday officially named former U.S. President Bill Clinton as special envoy to Haiti. The position calls for Clinton to work to create jobs and access to basic services for the people of Haiti. “All I want to do is help the Haitians take over control of their own destiny,” Clinton said. The U.N. Office for the Special Envoy for Haiti said unemployment reaches 70 percent nationally and 78 percent of Haitians live on less than $2 a day. Even though Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Ban said he believes that it...

Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe writes in "Renegade: The Making of a President" that Barack Obama's campaign struggled with figuring out how to respond to former President Clinton's attacks. President Obama accused Bill Clinton of peddling "bald-faced lies" during the presidential campaign, according to a new book on the 2008 race. Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe writes in "Renegade: The Making of a President" that Obama's campaign struggled to figure out how to respond to former President Clinton, who during the early primaries was a fierce defender of his wife Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination. "We had to figure out...

The bitter rift that developed between Barack Obama when he was running for president last year and Bill and Hillary Clinton was one mean fight. In the new book, "Renegade, The Making of a President," by former Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe, President Obama -- then in the midst of a tight Democratic primary battle with Hillary -- accused the former president of being a "bald-faced liar" and a "loose canon." Obama also said Bill Clinton was potentially "too much of a liability" when he was trying to decide whether to add Hillary to his White House team once he won...

Former President George W. Bush has defended former President Bill Clinton and called him his "brother" in their first ever appearance together on stage. Bush said in their Friday appearance at a Toronto forum that he never liked it when previous administration officials criticized his government but says Clinton was respectful and never did. Bush declined to criticize the Obama administration. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been a very vocal critic of Obama.

The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton BY PETER BAKER Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet. Standing all by himself, the former president of the United States moved his eyes methodically across shelves of wooden carvings, jewelry and sculptures...

Here's a fascinating politics/energy/international relations story that's flying below the radar now, but feels as though it could get huge. The news starts with Uranium One (UUU), a Toronto-listed uranium miner, whose shares plunged 38% on news that the Kazakhstan government was probing whether certain Kazakh mines it owns were acquired illegally. Specifically, it's looking at potentially illegal asset sales by Mukhtar Dzhakishev, the former head of state-owned uranium miner Kazatomprom, who later sought favors from the man who sold the assets to, Frank Giustra, and Bill Clinton. Reuters: [O]ne deal in question was the sale of a 30 percent...

A massive amount of sensitive, national security-related information from the Clinton administration has gone missing from the national archives. The Inspector General of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) told congressional committee staffers Tuesday that a hard drive containing over a terabyte of information -- the equivalent of millions of books--went missing from the NARA facility in College Park, Md., sometime between October 2008 and March 2009. The Department of Justice and the Secret Service are conducting an investigation, but it's so far unclear whether the drive was lost as the result of a crime or an accident. That...

Former US president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. And he was caught on camera groping the actress. It seems that he likes to keep his fingers on the pulse of the important issues. Former president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. What happened was an embarrassing brush between the two. The jury is still out on whether giving a hand in this way can happen accidentally. (pic in link of Bubba grabbing a hand full of Nanny...

Somebody somewhere might be surprised: Bill Clinton is still a womanizing cad. Times Of India: Bill Clinton Caught Groping ‘Nanny’ Star (Fran Drescher) May 19, 2009 Former US president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. And he was caught on camera groping the actress. It seems that he likes to keep his fingers on the pulse of the important issues. Former president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. What happened was an embarrassing brush between the two. The...

Former US president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. And he was caught on camera groping the actress. It seems that he likes to keep his fingers on the pulse of the important issues. Former president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. What happened was an embarrassing brush between the two. The jury is still out on whether giving a hand in this way can happen accidentally. Drescher is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominated American film...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to name former U.S. President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to Haiti, U.N. officials said on Monday, in a move that could attract investment in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation and help stabilize the country. "The announcement is expected to come soon," one U.N. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The official said a formal announcement could come as early as Tuesday.

Former President Bill Clinton, who has committed his philanthropic efforts to helping hurricane ravaged Haiti, has been named a special envoy to the Caribbean nation on behalf of the United Nations. The honor comes two months after Clinton visited Haiti along with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in an effort to raise global attention to the country's effort to rebuild following a year of natural disasters that wreaked havoc on the Haitian economy, its people and its already fragile landscape. The four back-to-back storms left almost 800 dead and created nearly $1 billion in damage.

VIENNA – "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Parker, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and singer Katy Perry attended a flamboyant Austrian charity gala Saturday dedicated to raising money for people with HIV and AIDS. Other celebrities spotted at the Life Ball were actress Fran Drescher, former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson and model Amber Valletta.

New York—Not to be outdone by Elizabeth Edwards, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has decided to publish a series of books on her husband’s trysts. The book will detail affair after affair, and all of the excrement she had to eat during her time in Arkansas and Washington. Reportedly, the first two volumes are complete. However, the White House years—a lengthy series of books—won’t be finished until late 2010. Hillary has grown weary of the attention the media paid to Elizabeth Edwards for just one affair, and feels it’s time she got her dues.

Since I am about to make a sacrilegious statement, I also want to point out that I stand by my earlier thesis that said that history will place Clinton somewhere nearly Calvin Coolidge. Still, I will give Clinton credit in this way. He was the consummate politician, and when that politician happens to be your ideological opposite that isn't so bad. Just think about this. Clinton's best years were from 1995-1999. His best years he worked mostly with Republicans to get things done. Frankly, what are Clinton's signature legislation and actions? NAFTA, a balanced budget, and welfare reform...aren't all of...

From history, we see greatness: * ‘One man with courage makes a majority.’ - Andrew Jackson * ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ - Franklin D. Roosevelt * ‘The buck stops here.’ - Harry S. Truman * ‘Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’ - John F. Kennedy \ And from today’s Democrats we see… well, you figure it out. * ‘It depends what your definition of ‘IS’ is?” - Bill Clinton * ‘Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac are not in crisis’ - Barney Frank (fall...

Former chief White House political advisor Dick Morris revealed Tuesday that his former boss Bill Clinton cared so little about global terrorism that his own Assistant Secretary of State had trouble getting him to pay attention to a bomb threat against the Khobar Towers Air Force barracks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. "In 1996, I got a phone call from Dick Holbrooke," Morris told WABC Radio's Sean Hannity. "He said, 'We're getting hard intelligence that terrorists are planning another hit on our guys in Riyadh.... They're in the exact same building they were in when it was hit last time.'" In ...

President Obama has made a number of controversial appointments during his first 100 days in office, but perhaps none more so than activist judge and ACLU alumnus David Hamilton. In a nomination that may be voted on as early as this week, the president has chosen Hamilton to sit on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, an important Chicago-based bench whose jurisdiction extends over Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. The appointment serves as an early warning that Obama’s judicial nominees, presented as “moderates,” will be anything but. Born in 1957, Hamilton began his judicial career when he was nominated by President...

Slouching Toward Columbine: Darwin's Tree of Death April 20, 2009 David Klinghoffer I've long been fascinated by the image of the Tree of Death, parallel to the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden and cryptically referred to in mystical texts explaining the Hebrew Bible: And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:9). Come and behold: as soon as night falls, the...

A new effort to pay off Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign debt includes a chance to “spend a day with Bill Clinton” as one of the prizes for contributing as little as $5 online. And talking heads stroke their chins about the “American Idol”-ization of American politics, but now it’s literally the case: Another prize is a trip for two to the show’s season finale. Here’s the e-mail, sent by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: “From James Carville … “I knew it was going to take an extraordinary effort to help pay off Hillary Clinton's campaign debt. But...

Jerry and Carol Ptacek bounced from one cramped apartment to another most of their adult lives, so they could hardly believe their luck when they were able to buy a San Bernardino house for the bargain price of $63,000. Nine years later, they are renters again -- a testament to the failure of the federal government's Dollar Homes program. Congress launched the program in 1998 to clear the Department of Housing and Urban Development's books of foreclosures and provide affordable housing. Local governments would buy the homes for $1, fix them up and resell them at a discount to poor...

Fictional parody video poem related to Bill and Hill. Click to watch video. While opening his bills, he found her envelope. Its fragrance made him think of perfumed hotel soap. The razor blade inside it almost cut his hand. Note said: "Your hour glass will soon run out of sand. That girl you met last week was my paid prostitute. You never saw the signs beneath her business suit. Don't worry married man. No, I wont tell your wife. The gift you received from me will soon take your life. You've lied so many times, and, now, your payback's here....

I tend to listen to Rush Limbaugh via his website rather than on the radio. An advantage is that during breaks, instead of hearing commercials, I get to listen to Rush’s great parodies. Among the favorites that still pop up is the I’m Richer Than You Are! game show starring Bill Clinton. Responding to statements from the audience, Clinton manages to work in the fact that he makes much–much–more money than they do. Has Pres. Obama inherited that bragadocious tendency from Clinton–or might he be a secret Rush fan who subconsciously let the parody sink into this own consciousness? I...

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah (R) greets former U.S. President Bill Clinton at the Royal Palace in Riyadh March 24, 2009. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (C) greets Haitians during his visit to a U.N. base in Port-au-Prince March 10, 2009. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former Clinton visited Haiti on Monday and urged the Caribbean state to use international backing to haul itself out of grinding poverty. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon talk during their visit to a factory in Port-au-Prince March 10, 2009. Ban and Clinton visited Haiti on Monday and urged the...

Watching faith healers is fun, if you can overlook the pain and desperation in the eyes of the supplicants, and cheerfully endure the mosquitoes, gnats and other night bugs flying in tight formation through gaps in the tent flaps. You have to ignore reality and just enjoy the show. But the next morning, with the sound of the singing and the scent of the sawdust lingering on the cool air, the sick, the halt and the infirm are well advised to call the doctor. Barack Obama conducted the picture-perfect campaign with the skill and bombast that any smooth-talking piney-woods charlatan...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to have adopted a "Goofy Talk Show Strategy" when visiting Foreign Countries. Here is video of her on a Turkish version of "The View," where she was asked when the last time was she fell in love. Hillary said he met Bill Clinton in 1971, and "we've been, you know, talking to each other and enjoying our life together ever since." She sounded very convincing! Question: What does this kind of thing possibly have to do with being Secretary of State? . . . . . (Watch Video)

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-Key-State-Department-Appointments/ THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6, 2009 President Obama Announces Key State Department Appointments WASHINGTON – Today, President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals for key State Department posts: Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations; Phil Gordon, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs; and Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues. President Obama said, "Each of these individuals brings a deep knowledge and expertise in their field, along with a commitment to strengthen American diplomacy to...

Tennis great Billie Jean King waves to the crowd after remarks honoring her by former U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) during a tennis match at Madison Square Garden in New York March 2, 2009. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) speaks with other participants about the National Clean Energy Project and building a new smart energy grid for the U.S. following a round-table discussion in Washington, February 23, 2009. Former President Bill Clinton is greeted by neighborhood activist Annie Abrams during a luncheon for former Arkansas Treasurer Jimmie Lou Fisher at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday,...

DOJ Nominee ‘Shocked’ by Her Own Words Surprised at her own argument, Johnsen now says she did not mean what she plainly wrote. Indiana law professor Dawn Johnsen, Pres. Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s all-important Office of Legal Counsel, had her Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday. During questioning by Sen. Arlen Specter, the professor professed to be “shocked” by my contention that she had once analogized pregnancy to involuntary servitude, a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition of slavery. I made this contention in a profile of Johnsen for the current (March 9) issue of National Review, which...