Thursday, June 18, 2009
Hillary breaks elbow
Sunday, March 29, 2009
So Hillary, Ms. Smartest-Woman-In-The-World and Ready-To-Lead-On-Day-One, manages to ask the dumbest question possible while visiting The Basilica and the shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe:
Who painted it?
How in the world does that come about?
Is Clinton still surrounded by her team of amateur-hour Clinton loyalists instead of career State Department professionals?
Why?
First the Russian 'reset' button and now this.
Sprout a pair, Mr. President! Enforce a Stalinist purge of Clinton hacks at State. Clinton won't do it, and they're letting you and the country down.
Can you imagine the media coverage if Sarah Palin did something like this?
Splash, out
Jason
Who painted it?
How in the world does that come about?
Is Clinton still surrounded by her team of amateur-hour Clinton loyalists instead of career State Department professionals?
Why?
First the Russian 'reset' button and now this.
Sprout a pair, Mr. President! Enforce a Stalinist purge of Clinton hacks at State. Clinton won't do it, and they're letting you and the country down.
Can you imagine the media coverage if Sarah Palin did something like this?
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: Catholicism, Democrats, Hillary, State Department, stupid
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
About that "reset" button
...that Hillary Clinton gave to the Russian foreign minister.
It's worse than I ever imagined: It's not that they got the translation for the word "reset" wrong. This carnival of clowns didn't even use the right alphabet!
I can understand missing the translation. Actually, it happens all the time, though it would be unusual at this level. But not realizing that, gee, I've noticed over the years that Russians seem to use some sort of crazy backwards alphabet, but still taking the idea, running with it, and getting all the way up to the Secretary of State without any adult supervision looking at the damn thing even once on the way up the flagpole takes incompetence to a whole new level of stupidity.
But it's not just incompetence. All administrations have teething problems in the early weeks. All administrations make some bad hires and accidentally let morons through the vetting process (though after the Livingstone thing, Hillary seems to have taken that practice to a high art.)
That kind of incompetence is understandable, and will eventually weed itself out as the incompetent staffers are identified, let go, or placed in positions where they can't do any more damage. Like Secretary of Education, for instance.
But this incident belies incompetence for the worst of all possible reasons:
Why in God's name does the Secretary of State still have a "small political team" of commissar loyalists? She's the farging Secretary of State, not the President. She's not a politician. She's a diplomat. Apparently, she's congenitally incapable of telling the difference.
And why is she allowing her small, political team of operatives to stick their juvenile, incompetent noses in protocol functions, where they have zero expertise? Why isn't she putting them on a leash and limiting their functions (to, say, making coffee at Foggy Bottom)?
Why? Because Ms. "Ready-To-Lead-On-Day-One" doesn't have much executive experience herself, and apparently doesn't know when to rely on her career Russia experts. Instead, she's allowed herself to be surrounded by Clintonista sycophants who don't know shit from shinola. And as a result, Hillary Clinton, the executive, doesn't know shit from shinola either.
If President Obama has any testicles, he'd tell Hillary to punt her private praetorian guard. Give them their walking papers, pronto. They are on the public payroll now, but they aren't serving the public interest. They are there to serve Hillary's interests, and preserve her option to stab the President in the back should she desire to run again in 2012.
You know they are running roughshod over the career State Dept. professionals, throwing their weight around. If Obama has them ousted, he'll be a hero at State. And Clinton will be a better Secretary for it.
Splash, out
Jason
It's worse than I ever imagined: It's not that they got the translation for the word "reset" wrong. This carnival of clowns didn't even use the right alphabet!
I can understand missing the translation. Actually, it happens all the time, though it would be unusual at this level. But not realizing that, gee, I've noticed over the years that Russians seem to use some sort of crazy backwards alphabet, but still taking the idea, running with it, and getting all the way up to the Secretary of State without any adult supervision looking at the damn thing even once on the way up the flagpole takes incompetence to a whole new level of stupidity.
But it's not just incompetence. All administrations have teething problems in the early weeks. All administrations make some bad hires and accidentally let morons through the vetting process (though after the Livingstone thing, Hillary seems to have taken that practice to a high art.)
That kind of incompetence is understandable, and will eventually weed itself out as the incompetent staffers are identified, let go, or placed in positions where they can't do any more damage. Like Secretary of Education, for instance.
But this incident belies incompetence for the worst of all possible reasons:
The error appalled some in the State Department, because the button – which was inscribed in Latin script, not Cyrillic – hadn’t been assembled with the help of State’s cadre of Russian speakers and professional translators, but rather by Clinton’s small political team.
Why in God's name does the Secretary of State still have a "small political team" of commissar loyalists? She's the farging Secretary of State, not the President. She's not a politician. She's a diplomat. Apparently, she's congenitally incapable of telling the difference.
And why is she allowing her small, political team of operatives to stick their juvenile, incompetent noses in protocol functions, where they have zero expertise? Why isn't she putting them on a leash and limiting their functions (to, say, making coffee at Foggy Bottom)?
Why? Because Ms. "Ready-To-Lead-On-Day-One" doesn't have much executive experience herself, and apparently doesn't know when to rely on her career Russia experts. Instead, she's allowed herself to be surrounded by Clintonista sycophants who don't know shit from shinola. And as a result, Hillary Clinton, the executive, doesn't know shit from shinola either.
If President Obama has any testicles, he'd tell Hillary to punt her private praetorian guard. Give them their walking papers, pronto. They are on the public payroll now, but they aren't serving the public interest. They are there to serve Hillary's interests, and preserve her option to stab the President in the back should she desire to run again in 2012.
You know they are running roughshod over the career State Dept. professionals, throwing their weight around. If Obama has them ousted, he'll be a hero at State. And Clinton will be a better Secretary for it.
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: Hillary, Leadership, Obama, State Department
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Mistranslation
Apparently, despite "working hard to get the right word," the Secretary of State doesn't have access to a competent Russian linguist.
God help us.
Wow. A simple meeting could "reduce the frostiness" between the U.S. and Russia?
What the f-ck did we just give away to make that happen?
Can't anyone here play this game?
Splash, out
Jason
P.S. Condoleeza Rice was near fluent in Russian.
Hillary's a HUGE step down.
God help us.
Despite the shoddy translation work on the U.S. side, Clinton and Lavrov emerged from their meeting a few hours later saying they had accomplished their initial goal—reducing the frostiness in U.S.-Russia relations that had taken hold by the end of the Bush administration.
Wow. A simple meeting could "reduce the frostiness" between the U.S. and Russia?
What the f-ck did we just give away to make that happen?
Can't anyone here play this game?
Splash, out
Jason
P.S. Condoleeza Rice was near fluent in Russian.
Hillary's a HUGE step down.
Labels: Government, Hillary, Obama, stupid
Monday, June 30, 2008
Red on Red
Libtards are still at each others' throats. Instapundit links to the pro-Hillary blog No Quarter, who compares Obama -- I shit thee not -- to a wife beater and a rapist.
Dunno who Keith is. But here I was thinking all the unhinged morons in the Democratic party were OBAMA supporters!
Splash, out
Jason
And now seeing these articles and photographs of Senator Clinton and Senator Obama together, him with his hand on her back, just makes me cringe. Frankly, it makes me almost physically ill. See, I have done a lot of work in the Domestic Violence movement. And I have seen this cycle before: the man abuses, attacks, and lashes out at the woman. The woman makes excuses for, and accepts blame from, the man for his attacks. Not unlike Senator Clinton saying now that they are friends, respect each other, and support each other. I know what respect looks and feels like - Senator Obama has shown NONE for Senator Clinton. Senator McCain has, but Obama? No. Seeing these photos of her with him now reminds me of battered women wearing sunglasses to hide the bruises, and saying, “Oh, he didn’t really mean it. It was my fault, really, I shouldn’t have made him mad. He really does love me, in his own way, really! Don’t be mad at him!” Not only did Obama make sexist remarks about Senator Clinton, INCLUDING at the fundraiser the other night, but he reaped the benefit of the sexist and misogynistic remarks made by others, the veiled death threats (talking to YOU, Keith), the threats of violence, the degradation, not on her record, or on her speeches, but because she was a woman.
Dunno who Keith is. But here I was thinking all the unhinged morons in the Democratic party were OBAMA supporters!
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: Democrats, Hillary, Obama, The Left, women
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Hillary Lied About Bosnia Trip
This has been going around for a while. But some Democrat lies are too blatant even for CBS.
Hillary cheapens the experiences of everyone who ever DID have to brave sniper, mortars, and the like.
Splash, out
Jason
Hillary cheapens the experiences of everyone who ever DID have to brave sniper, mortars, and the like.
Splash, out
Jason
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Hillary: The Ego That Ate Iraq
Here's the Queen B on Meet the Press:
Me me me me me me. What a narcisisstic, egomaniacal piece of work.
This has been a Democrat fantasy for a long time. To accept it as true requires a willing suspicion of disbelief. In reality, it is the latest in a long string of lies propagated by the Democratic party PR machine. There is no evidence whatsoever that it is true. If it were true, we would have seen progress in Iraq earlier, while the power of Pelosi/Reid axis of acquiescence was at its brief zenith.
She'd be better off claiming to have invented the Internet.
Splash, out
Jason
My commitment to begin withdrawing our troops in January 2009 is a big factor in pushing the Iraqi government to do what they should have been doing all along.
Me me me me me me. What a narcisisstic, egomaniacal piece of work.
This has been a Democrat fantasy for a long time. To accept it as true requires a
She'd be better off claiming to have invented the Internet.
Splash, out
Jason
Labels: Hillary
Monday, January 07, 2008
So what do you make of Hillary's crying spell?
Not much.
Running for president is an incredibly draining thing, no matter who you are. (Being president is even more draining!) I don't want any president who bursts out crying every other day. But Hillary is human, all appearances to the contrary. Emotions can get the better of people at strange and unpredictable times.
I got emotional in a truck in Waimanalo a couple of months ago, just describing the Al Anbar awakening to my dad, and how it went down in Ramadi.
Hillary's ego - her sense of entitlement - was just so monstrous - that when she fell flat on her face in Iowa it must have been an emotionally shattering, disorienting moment. Sort of like when Marie Antoinette first got a clue what was in store for her.
Sure, she had it coming. Hillary, not Marie Antoinette. And it may be the best thing in the world for her. I hope she can emerge a more humble and human candidate. But the experience has got to be deeply wounding.
The first cut is the deepest.
Everybody gets one crying spell. And her's wasn't exactly a "leave Britney alone" moment.
Slack shall be cut for her here on CounterColumn.
Splash, Out
Jason
UPDATE: Anchoress, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!!!!
Running for president is an incredibly draining thing, no matter who you are. (Being president is even more draining!) I don't want any president who bursts out crying every other day. But Hillary is human, all appearances to the contrary. Emotions can get the better of people at strange and unpredictable times.
I got emotional in a truck in Waimanalo a couple of months ago, just describing the Al Anbar awakening to my dad, and how it went down in Ramadi.
Hillary's ego - her sense of entitlement - was just so monstrous - that when she fell flat on her face in Iowa it must have been an emotionally shattering, disorienting moment. Sort of like when Marie Antoinette first got a clue what was in store for her.
Sure, she had it coming. Hillary, not Marie Antoinette. And it may be the best thing in the world for her. I hope she can emerge a more humble and human candidate. But the experience has got to be deeply wounding.
The first cut is the deepest.
Everybody gets one crying spell. And her's wasn't exactly a "leave Britney alone" moment.
Slack shall be cut for her here on CounterColumn.
Splash, Out
Jason
UPDATE: Anchoress, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!!!!
Labels: Hillary
