A scary thought ... and another

CLINTON SEES ROLE FOR HUSBAND / CAMPAIGN 2008: Senator tells S.F. crowd the former president could be a diplomat:
"In response to a question from the audience, she called her husband 'the most popular person in the world right now'' and said that when she reaches the White House, 'I will continue the tradition of using former presidents' as diplomats around the world."

A scary thought, isn't it? Bill Clinton roaming the globe with the imprimatur of the president of the US, eclipsing by orders of magnitude anything that might be heard from a constitutionally-accountable secretary of state.

And, to pick up the slack, our only other living former Democrat president, that world-improver par excellence, Jimmy Carter. Yikes!

Of course, I wouldn't be too surprised if Bush 41 got tapped from time to time as well, but there is little comfort in that.