Let’s have some fun. Imagine if Sarah Palin was Secretary of State, and she is in Hillary’s place on her trip to Europe. She is at a conference in Brussels, and during her speech, she comments as Hillary did – “Clinton told young Europeans at the European Parliament that global economic turmoil provided a fresh opening. “Never waste a good crisis … Don’t waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.”
Now I wonder…how would the media respond to that comment, if it was Sarah who gave it? I mean admitting that she would use a “crisis” as an advantage, instead of getting people on board with an intelligent plan. (Of course her boss is doing that now). Never waste a good crisis, Clinton says on climate
As Sarah is answering questions, she responds as Hillary – “when she answered questions in front of 500 young Europeans at the European Parliament, where she was the highest-ranking U.S. visitor since the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1985.
A veteran politician, Clinton compared the complex European political environment to that of the two-party U.S. system, before adding:
“I have never understood multiparty democracy.
“It is hard enough with two parties to come to any resolution, and I say this very respectfully, because I feel the same way about our own democracy, which has been around a lot longer than European democracy.”
The remark provoked much headshaking in the parliament of a bloc that likes to trace back its democratic tradition thousands of years to the days of classical Greece.
One working lunch later with EU leaders, Clinton raised more eyebrows when she referred to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who stood beside her, as “High Representative Solano.”
She also dubbed European Commission External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner as “Benito.”
Hillary represents the most powerful democracy in the world, and yet she is totally unaware of the history of democracy! (That is pretty telling in itself, isn’t it?). But then to admit that she doesn’t understand Europe’s multi-party system – you’re the Secretary of State! I know Hillary is supposed to be really smart and all, but how would folks respond if it was Sarah who admitted this ignorance? Remember Katie Couric?
And then call poor Benita – Bonito: does she look like Mussolini to you?
Tongue-tied Clinton gets warm EU welcome
The President has just been embarrassed by Russian leadership, by not only exposing a secret letter sent by Obama, but disregarding it entirely. It would be up to Sarah not only represent the United States with dignity, but follow this slight with competence and professionalism.
She wants to start off the meeting with a gift as did Hillary – “Note to self: When trying to improve ties with a former Cold War-era foe, check a dictionary.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton learned that lesson the hard way Friday when she presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a gift bearing an incorrect translation — one that implied hostility, rather than peacemaking.
Clinton presented Lavrov with a gift-wrapped red button, which said “Reset” in English and “Peregruzka” in Russian. The problem was, “peregruzka” doesn’t mean reset. It means overcharged, or overloaded.
And Lavrov called her out on it.
“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” Clinton asked Lavrov.
“You got it wrong,” Lavrov said. “This says ‘peregruzka,’ which means overcharged.”
Again, I know that Hillary is supposed to be really smart and all, and is supposed to have all this experience that she could be president: but can’t she get one word right? She is representing the United States of America – not the PTA!
May I ask – does it have to be Russia? Again I ask: of all countries, does it have to be Russia?
And what about the gift itself? It looks like something made in a middle school shop class – even a memento from the Elvis museum would have been better.
I am sitting back and wondering: how would this blunder appear if it was Sarah? What would the network media, cable media, left-wing blogoshere, late night guys and liberal funny people do
with all this information?
I can assure you they wouldn’t be spending all this time on Rush Limbaugh.
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We all know that if were any Republican that each of these gaffes would be a proof of their total lack of intelligence as well as proof that they were not qualified for the job. What is funny to me is online the stories on top of Yahoo news are real heavy hitters like “Brad Pitt on Capitol Hill” and “How To Get The 1st Ladies Biceps.” The press just fills the intellect of the average voter with tabloid fluff. If the tables were reversed and especially if it was Palin every possibility of a stumble would be reported on preemptively. Does she have a grasp of the issues at hand…. Can she handle it…. Will she fail …. instead we have front page… Michelle Obama to be on cover of Oprah’s magazine….
Is it just me, or does the left seem to take joy from their mistakes? I mean, as Sec. of State, one would think that Clinton’s staff, and she, would be up on protocol. For for a gaffe to have been made is absolutely dumb. What if it offended? Who knows? Calling her on it was smart.
Now we know she isn’t firing on all pistons. The media, however, will of course, give her a pass… as is custom with the left.
You hit it on the head with protocol. I would have figured that they could bring my kids on a whistle stop tour of every continent and have the staffing in place to advise them how to properly handle at least the fundamentals of each meaning. To me the sad part is that when the left does it, the press treats it like a cute mistake with no consequences and if it was any Republican it would be proof of their disastrous foreign policy and cowboy diplomacy. No matter how they report it these first impressions of our sorry administration are just that, first impressions. Things like this just serve well to show the bias of the leftist press.
Well on top of the fact that Sarah is Republican she’s also beautiful. So maybe being ugly like Hillary garners you a reprieve from media scrutiny. Maybe they feel sorry for her or maybe they are just all left wingers (that’s it).
I doubt it has anything to do with thier looks though clearly, Sarah is a stunner compared to Hillary’s old shoe looks. It’s justthat the media is so damn liberal that they do not report the news, they manufacture it to suit thier liberal political agenda. In spite of that, we all still know that Hillary is a joke. If only she knew.
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This whole party in office is a scam, lets see,
We have a dummb Secretary of State (goofs up in Europe)
We have a Sec. treasurey that didn’t pay his taxes
We have Dodd and Franks (two bank cheaters)
We have a Vice President that gave $350.00 a year to charities
We have a President who is dumber than dumb, doesnt have a clue what to do next.
We have a congressman hiding money in his freezer
We have a Governor ousted for corruptness, selling Obams senate seat
We have a new Senator who lied all the way to his seat that the corrupt Governor gave him
We have a Senate Leader Harry Reid who is probably more crooked than any on his land deals.
We have Maxine Waters who supposedly got money like 50 billion for her husbands bank
We have Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who is one of the richest women in America, pretending the Air Force jet is her own private Jet
and taking her family and friends all over the world. The way I figure it this has cost us about a half billion dollars a year.
You can come back with well the repubs did worse, guess what there is no worse. The president has lied through his teeth and the libs will still defend him.
This is the worse money grabbing government we have ever had.
These people don’t even pretend to be honest. They think all the money that they are spending grows on trees, I would guess.
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