We [as long as 0bama is in the WH] Are Marie Harf

National Review ^ | 2/19/2015 | Kevin D. Williamson

[Rummyfan]

It may be that she reads Marcus Aurelius in the original Greek in her spare time ...

Wouldn't that be in the original Latin?

[Rummyfan]

At the CIA, Harf was “promoted” from Middle East analyst to press liaison...

How did she get on with the CIA in the first place?

[TADSLOS]

It's really a puzzlement as to how much she enjoyes sitting on State Dept urinals to relieve herself.

Urinals not required. Marie has estrogen sniffing pajama boy handlers to change her "adult" diapers between media events.

[Rummyfan]

The writer forgot to mention that her Daddy is a big time Obama Donor/Bundler.

Explains a lot....

[GreenHornet]

Marie Harf and Kelly Bundy: Separated at birth?

[Night Hides Not]

And Meg Bundy morphed into Gemma Teller. lol

[Liz]

Oh, okay-—I did not know that (snort.)

[Stosh]

Whatever genetic sequence it is that codes for “smug”, that family’s DNA would be the place to look for it.

[TADSLOS]

I never thought that I would be wishing for the helicon days of George Shultz and Henry Kissinger... The USA is a laughing stock. Mission Accomplished- Obama.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Semper Fi! A 4 year hitch in the Corps is probably equivalent to a masters degree at most major universities. She would have been better off joining the Corps! She thinks those frat parties were fun, she’s never been on Magsaysay street in Olangapo. She would have gotten quite an education there.... : )

[LT Brass Bancroft]

You’d think, but it turns out he wrote in Greek.

[Rummyfan]

Noted.

[nascarnation]

IU Bloomington poli-sci grad.

It was either a govt job in DC, or selling blouses at Forever 21...

[The_Reader_David]

Unless things at the CIA are much worse than I imagine, I suspect her “promotion” must have been a decision taken because she was useless as a Middle East analyst, and somebody noticed she was well-spoken, if a bit dippy, and might be able to read press-releases well.

(Not that any agency of the U.S. government seems to have what we really need on the Mid-East desks, actual orientalists who know the history of Islam in fair detail.)

[The_Reader_David]

No, actually Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations in Greek.

Most of the ruling class in the Roman Empire, even in the Latin speaking West, had Greek tutors and were bilingual (very handy, that, when pretty much everyone in the more populous geographical half of the Empire spoke Greek), and curiously a lot of the Roman historians even before the Imperial period wrote in Greek rather than Latin.

[Cecily]

Do you get the feeling that the “Mayas” and “Carrie Mathiesons,” if there are still any such types left at the CIA, would mop the floor with Marie Barf’s “nuanced” thinking?

[MoochPooch]

However, WAY too much of America nowadays IS Marie Harf, which I think is the author's point. Electing 0bama twice is proof of this.

For that reason, she is scary.

(BTW your previous posts were hilarious!)

[Servant of the Cross]

Thank you. Kind of you to notice and share that.

[Frank_2001]

LOL :)

[x]

Marie Harf, the cretinous propagandist and campaign veteran installed by the Obama administration at the State Department — the misfit who plays Messy Marvin to Jen Psaki’s feckless Pippi Longstocking — has called down upon herself a Malibu mudslide of mockery and derision for suggesting that what’s really needed in the war against the Islamic State et al. is better employment opportunities — “jobs for jihadis,” as her critics put it.

I wish he'd just come out and say what he really thinks ...