When I first saw this clip on FoxNews, I thought “how lame.. using a ‘reset button’ as a prop”. Reminded me of one of those commercials where some guy presses a red button and POOF! he has a new chair.
But it got better.
On the heals of that nifty 25 DVD set KP (Karaoke President) presented to PM Brown, we have yet another classic blunder that would have brought howls of indignation and laughter from the left wing wackos if it were Bush.. you know.. like NBC.
Check out the video if you haven’t seen it (hat tip to Gina Cobb for the vid):
KP and his staff are the epitome of leader wannabes. It could be amateur night every night for the next four years folks. And when is the KP administration going to let go of the past and start leading to the future… never? What is this obsession with Bush? The relationship between Russia and the US was quite good until Russia decided to invade Georgia.. so that’s Bush’s fault. What’s KP and HRC’s problem?
Gina Cobb and Ed Morrissey both have it right here:
Update: Ed Morrissey has some painfully appropriate comments on the gaffe itself:
Yeah, I’m sure Lavrov laughed. Later, he probably told his deputy, “Tell the crypto guys they can take it easy.”
Some will say, Come on, it’s just a light moment, but let’s think about what Hillary was doing here. She was making fun of the previous administration’s diplomacy with her “reset” button, a rather nasty piece of work. I’ll bet the Bush administration and Condi Rice would have gotten the translation correct before making that joke — and I’d bet even more money they wouldn’t have thought to make fun of Hillary’s husband in that fashion in the first place.
Can we get a reset button?
He’s right. It wasn’t just that Hillary Clinton and her staff committed a diplomatic gaffe. They committed the gaffe while in the process of engaging in a mean-spirited ridicule of their predecessors’ diplomacy. Who looks like a fool now?
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