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Big Muddy rancher

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Gaffe Watch: Hillary Tells Europeans U.S. Democracy Much Older Than Europe’s
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By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive)
March 6, 2009 - 12:06 ET

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Who will cover this gaffe? In a story headlined "Tongue-Tied Clinton Gets Warm E.U. Welcome," Reuters reported that Hillary Clinton mispronounced several names and claimed American democracy’s been "around a lot longer than European democracy." Reporter David Brunnstrom tried to make excuses – she’s not gaffe-prone, just tuckered out:

Tiredness appeared to show Friday 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."

Will Katie Couric and everyone else who tried to suggest Sarah Palin wasn't bright enough for the big jobs notice Hillary bumbling around and confessing (like a Couric) that "I have never understood parliamentary democracy"?

Will Tom Brokaw and the Today crew reconsider their declarations of her "mastery" of detail and her sizzling smarts?

The Reuters reporter noted she's still way more popular than those odious Bush officials:

Still, Clinton has been well received in Brussels, where the Obama administration has been viewed as a breath of fresh air after the unpopular leadership of George W. Bush. His secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, often drew protests on her travels.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center
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hypocritexposer

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Is Bush back in Politics? Is he representing the Country to others?

This isn't a tit for tat, if you cannot stick up for your choice (and their intelligence), what does it matter if you can say, he did it?
 

Big Muddy rancher

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So was that funny or sad.

We were told how smart she was and Palin was the dumb one. :roll:


You sure are learning reader. Your getting good at the cut and paste. I thought you bitched about that before. Or was only when somebody else did it. :roll:
 
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Anonymous

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Reader- speaking of the worlds biggest polluter-- Former Prime Minister Blair was in D.C. today- and he was praising the change in direction the US was taking on energy- and promoting more clean air...He was commenting on how the US lags so far behind many of the other nations now that it is going to be costlier for us- but agreed with Obama's use of the Stimulus to promote a clean energy direction....
 

Sandhusker

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reader (the Second) said:
The point is that Hillary's gaffes are infrequent compared to some others, but most notably GWB.

Biden is mostly known for talking too long and being boring, more than for gaffes.

I always assumed that GWB and his father GHWB had the same neurodevelopmental issue that affected their language production, but of course with GWB it was acerbated by him being somewhat of a goofball and possibly by other influence.

Biden's three letter word; J-O-B-S :lol: :lol:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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reader (the Second) said:
The point is that Hillary's gaffes are infrequent compared to some others, but most notably GWB.

Biden is mostly known for talking too long and being boring, more than for gaffes.

I always assumed that GWB and his father GHWB had the same neurodevelopmental issue that affected their language production, but of course with GWB it was acerbated by him being somewhat of a goofball and possibly by other influence.

Infrequent? She's only been on the job a month and has three on this article and the Russian overcharge button. Getting more frequent all the time.
 

Sandhusker

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reader (the Second) said:
The point is that Hillary's gaffes are infrequent compared to some others, but most notably GWB.

Biden is mostly known for talking too long and being boring, more than for gaffes.

I always assumed that GWB and his father GHWB had the same neurodevelopmental issue that affected their language production, but of course with GWB it was acerbated by him being somewhat of a goofball and possibly by other influence.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden has long been known a gaffe machine, and lately he's been living up to his reputation. Here are the most laughable Biden gaffes of the campaign so far:

5. "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." --Joe Biden

4. "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!" --Joe Biden, at his first campaign rally with Barack Obama (Watch video clip)

3. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened." –Joe Biden, apparently unaware that FDR wasn't president when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that only experimental TV sets were in use at that time

2. "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me." --Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire

1. "Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see ya." –-Joe Biden, to Missouri state Sen. Chuck Graham, who is in a wheelchair, Columbia, Missouri, Sept. 12, 2008 (Watch video clip)
 
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