This is change I can believe in.
Instead of a president who makes embarrassing gaffes, we now have a secretary of state who seems to be shooting for the record in the Dumbass Olympics:
In the last couple days she has:
-Claimed she "doesn't understand" multiparty democracy. (Its mean of me to point this one out because she was making the point that its hard enough to agree with 2 parties in the mix, but I think she could have phrased it better. And I like being mean.)
-Stated that US democracy is older than European democracy, forgetting about things like the Magna Carta, The Roman Republic and the Greek city states.
-Called Javier Solana -- a man who has been on TV nearly every day for the last 10 years -- Javier 'Solano'
-Referred to European Commission External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner as "Benito."
-Presented the Russian Foreign Minister with a symbolic 'reset' button symbolizing a new start for US-Russian Relations. Her staff managed to get "Reset" right in english, but the Russian word was "Peregruzka" which means overload or overcharge.
This doesn't seem like 'smart power' to me.
Monday, March 9, 2009
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