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Tongue-tied Clinton gets warm EU welcome [mispronounced her EU counterparts' names and claimed....]
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Posted on 03/06/2009 8:30:24 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Tongue-tied Clinton gets warm EU welcome Fri Mar 6, 2009 10:59am EST

By David Brunnstrom

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe as secretary of state when she mispronounced her EU counterparts' names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe's.

Clinton has set herself a grueling pace on visits to Egypt, Israel and Brussels soon after touring the Far East, attending dozens of meetings and giving speech after speech, with little time worked into her schedule for sleep.

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; soshillary
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To: Sub-Driver

a gaffe a minute.

Lets not call them the Democrat Party, they hate that, lets call them the Donner Party


21 posted on 03/06/2009 9:08:06 AM PST by GeronL (Will bankrupting America lead to socialism?)
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To: Martin Tell

Oh, yeah, well, them... ;-)


22 posted on 03/06/2009 9:12:21 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Sub-Driver

Clowns on parade best describes the obama administration.


23 posted on 03/06/2009 9:28:41 AM PST by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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To: GeronL
Gaffe a minute, indeed.

Watch for the "sleep deprivation" excuse, cause she is working SO hard.

24 posted on 03/06/2009 9:29:01 AM PST by Jumpmaster (Defund the Left!)
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To: Sub-Driver
"I have never understood multiparty democracy. "

We don't have that here. The two parties have merged.

Plus the USA a Constitutional Representative Republic.

25 posted on 03/06/2009 9:33:48 AM PST by Syncro (Play by the rules and you're gonna miss all the fun--Jacky Don Tucker (Toby Keith)
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To: Sub-Driver
She also dubbed European Commission External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner as "Benito."

Whom can she have been thinking of?

.......


26 posted on 03/06/2009 9:59:34 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Sub-Driver

Amateurs all around in this adminstration!


27 posted on 03/06/2009 10:03:16 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: stormer
Iceland has the oldest continuously intact legislative body - 930 AD.

Did not know that thanks. To counter it though, Iceland is not really part of Europe.

28 posted on 03/06/2009 10:37:37 AM PST by Centurion2000 (01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
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To: chris_bdba

Children all around in this adminstration!


29 posted on 03/06/2009 10:41:31 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Sub-Driver
she can make up for it by giving cheap CD's to all the european leaders.

30 posted on 03/06/2009 10:59:39 AM PST by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: Sub-Driver
“manifestly unfit to serve” Keith Olbermann, 12/06/07 referring to President Bush.

"I don't think he has the intellectual depth." Joe Scarborough referring to President Bush

Well now that the shoe's on the other foot............

31 posted on 03/07/2009 10:43:47 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: Markos33

“Toungue-tied”?

Too much ware and tare on the old sex organ there Hillary?

Maybe it’s some kind of lesbian bondage thing?


32 posted on 03/07/2009 10:46:37 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Probably is...

If Huma went with her, then that appendage could have
had an Olympic workout the night before.


33 posted on 03/07/2009 10:51:14 AM PST by Semper Mark (Communism is Socialism with a gun to your head.)
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