He's a Bird, He's a Dog, He's a Bird-Dog

There was good news and bad news for the American journalists, both attractive young women, who were freed from a North Korean prison.

The good news is they were free to return home.

The bad news is they had to take a long plane ride with Bill Clinton.

Can you imagine what he was saying to them? "You girls are smart, but you sure are pretty, too. You know, Hillary spends a lot of time away from home. You ladies should come over one of these days." It's right about then the two reporters, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, started looking around for parachutes.

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I know what you people, at least you liberal, left-leaning Clinton lovers are thinking: Cheap jokes at the expense of a man who helped rescue two innocent Americans from a repressive dictator.

Yeah, so what?

Listen, I like Bill Clinton. Always have. He's a hard man not to like. Clinton, not George W Bush, is the kind of guy I'd like to sit and have a beer with. He's the kind of everyman W could never be. Clinton is the son George H W Bush wished he'd had. I didn't think Bill was a great president, yet I voted for him twice. I wish he were still president sometimes. I certainly did during the Bush years. Whether it was his doing or not, Clinton presided over eight years of peace and prosperity. But, as his Arkansas state trooper guards used to say when Clinton was governor, "He's a hard dog to keep on the porch."

That's the gist of it. Clinton was, and possibly still is, a bird-dog. For whatever good he did as president, he will best be remembered for some icky Oval Office moments involving a cigar, a blue dress, and an intern.

So the cheap jokes will always be there, to his dying day. And then, hopefully, we'll just say nice things about him and let him rest in peace.