The bulletin from Pyongyang that Bill Clinton has arrived to negotiate for the two abducted American journalists is a political stunt that will enhance the Kim regime and weary the Obama administration. The opera of missiles and nuke tests and incoherent villainy now rules. Bill Clinton is a spectacular actor. The Kim regime is paranoid, brutal, self-satisfied, fragile, in transition. The two journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, are excellent props. The week has a fresh melodrama to replace last week's Crowley/Gates narrative. The risk to the White House is that the narrative is well away from POTUS. Also, it was not a secret that Bill Clinton ended last year's campaign with hard feelings for the abuse he received from the Obama supporters. The additional twist is that Bill Clinton is likely coordinating with Al Gore, since Lee and Ling are employee's of Gore's network. There is also the puzzle as to the unusual coincidence of the visit of George W. Bush to President Lee Myung-Pak in South Korea on August 1.  Two presidents on the Korean peninsula within days.  Unusual opera?