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Diplomacy, Continued

What's the deal with gifts?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset button” on U.S.-Russia relations.

She handed a palm-sized box wrapped with a bow. Lavrov opened it and pulled out the gift: a red button on a black base with a Russian word peregruzka printed on top.

“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” Clinton asked.

“You got it wrong,” Lavrov said.

Instead of "reset," Lavrov said the word on the box meant “overcharge.”

Clinton and Lavrov laughed.

Hm. You work at the State Department, with thousands of native Russian speakers at your easy command.

You "worked hard" to get a fairly basic word right but got it wrong.

Excellent.

Unlike the Gordon Brown dis, this is just an error without much consequence.

However, it does demonstrate that none of these fucks have any idea what the hell they're doing.

Hillary could have called a native speaker of Russian, but apparently she decided to rely on, who knows, her good buddy Joe Wilson and BabbleFish.

Yes, it's a small thing... except Hillary intended it to be a big, charming, winning gesture. Which failed. Because she "worked hard" to get a word right but didn't think of making a phone call to an expert.

If they can't take the minute necessary to get the small things right, I don't see why I should have confidence they'll spend the hours and weeks necessary to get the big things right.


Thanks to anti-Harkonen Freedom Fighter Geoff.

Posted by: Ace at 04:49 PM



Comments

1 Piz Dietz

(spelt phonetically, or as close as I can get it as my russian sucks).

Posted by: lorien1973 at March 06, 2009 04:50 PM (IhQuA)

2 Is Biden the one really running the show up there?  It sounds like it.

Posted by: The Cows from Keith's Milking Class at March 06, 2009 04:51 PM (MMC8r)

3 Could have gotten one of the buttons from Staple and called it good.  That would have been easy.

Posted by: huerfano at March 06, 2009 04:52 PM (knHvu)

4 They should have consulted with the previous administration who had a woman in the cabinet who speaks fluent Russian. I long for the ineptness of the Bush Whitehouse.

Posted by: Dale at March 06, 2009 04:52 PM (vKmRo)

5 Damn cows beat me to it.

Posted by: nickless at March 06, 2009 04:52 PM (MMC8r)

6 Oops, she gave him the wrong red one--she meant to give him the "EASY" button.

Posted by: runningrn at March 06, 2009 04:53 PM (aC/SY)

7 Ah, "overcharge", Hillary must have accidentally given him the box meant for the American taxpayers.

Posted by: kefka at March 06, 2009 04:53 PM (OwIMw)

8 Miss me?

Posted by: Dow 36,000 at March 06, 2009 04:54 PM (AHrTm)

9

Something tells me that if this were someone in the Bush adm, every single paper, half hour radio news update, stupid morning show, Olby and Harry Smith would all be up in arms and mocking the stupidity.

But, of course the media is not biased so that wouldn't happen.

Posted by: Sen. Gov. E. Buzz Miller, PhD at March 06, 2009 04:54 PM (sf4Oe)

10 Smartest administration ever!

Will Sheriff Joe Biden give her a good spanking for wasting taxpayer money on this?

Posted by: DrewM. at March 06, 2009 04:55 PM (hlYel)

11 Hillary Clinton gave Russia permission to overcharge European oil consumers.

That goes lock in step with Obama's forfeit of our missile defense system in Poland.


Posted by: maverick muse at March 06, 2009 04:56 PM (qHQmV)

12 Oh and once again, nothing funny about the Obama or his administration.

Poor joke writers. If only the administration would do something stupid!

Posted by: DrewM. at March 06, 2009 04:56 PM (hlYel)

13

Ah, the good ol' days. Remember when Bill Clinton said he'd worked hard, harder than he ever worked in his whole life, to give the middle class the tax cut he promised -- but he just couldn't do it.

Apparently working hard while failing has a magical quality for these people.

 

Posted by: lyle at March 06, 2009 04:56 PM (aiizS)

14

0bama administration, top to bottom = EPIC FAIL!

Comming soon!

When Hillary says she'd like to have lunch with Vlad Putin, she says launch instead! Hillarity and mass destruction ensues!

Posted by: SuperCool at March 06, 2009 04:57 PM (a80B1)

15 Remember, nothing about this President or his Administration is funny.

Hey, did you hear about the one with Rush and his pharmacist?

Posted by: Techie. at March 06, 2009 04:57 PM (QYuCD)

16 Obama's intel best effort.

Posted by: maverick muse at March 06, 2009 04:57 PM (qHQmV)

17 Pathetic.

Posted by: bour3 at March 06, 2009 04:58 PM (9YONe)

18 We need an   EJECT REJECT   button for the Oval Office.

Posted by: sherlock at March 06, 2009 04:59 PM (jdXw+)

19

THEY. CAN'T. GET. A. WORD. RIGHT!?

Thanks, Team Obama.

We are officially the ones at the nudist colony with the smallest dick.

 

Posted by: Blue Balls The Pirate at March 06, 2009 04:59 PM (uw+0A)

20

Affirmative Action results in this kind of aggressive stupidity.

But to point that out?

Well, we just aren't allowed to do that.

Posted by: Sen. Gov. E. Buzz Miller, PhD at March 06, 2009 05:00 PM (sf4Oe)

21 What exactly does 'reset' mean anyway?

It seems the Bush administration was tough on Russia because of all of Putin's penchant for cracking the skulls of his opponents. Do Clinton/Obama want to support that shit? Really? Interesting.

Posted by: DrewM. at March 06, 2009 05:01 PM (hlYel)

22

It wouldn't have happened in the Bush Administration for two reasons

1. Condi Rice speaks fluent Russian

2. Bush would never insult the United States by insulting the previous administration by insinuation and bad symbolism.

Cunt.

Posted by: polynikes at March 06, 2009 05:01 PM (m2CN7)

23 I think that one of the Obama Administration's senior staff members doing something competently would be newsworthy at this point.

Posted by: kefka at March 06, 2009 05:01 PM (OwIMw)

24 I imagine those "EASY" buttons are sold out all over Washington DC. 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 06, 2009 05:01 PM (n2eCn)

25 FYI, Condoleeza Rice, a fluent Russian speaker, would not have made such a mistake.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 06, 2009 05:01 PM (T0NGe)

26 "Remember when Bill Clinton said he'd worked hard, harder than he ever worked in his whole life, to give the middle class the tax cut he promised -- but he just couldn't do it."

The year after Clinton took the Oval Office, families of 4 whose combined income was $24K/year owed $8K income taxes!!!!
 

Posted by: maverick muse at March 06, 2009 05:02 PM (qHQmV)

27 2 Is Biden the one really running the show up there?  It sounds like it.

Posted by: The Cows from Keith's Milking Class at March 06, 2009 04:51 PM (MMC8r)

I have a four-letter answer to this.  Y-E-S.  Yes!

Posted by: Mary Beth at March 06, 2009 05:02 PM (JPEqm)

28 AmishDude,

Exactly my first thought with the news.

Would the online English/Russian dictionary have translated correctly as well?

Posted by: maverick muse at March 06, 2009 05:03 PM (qHQmV)

29 For the record, Babelfish says the Russian translation for "reset" is: возврат

Posted by: Bogus Doug at March 06, 2009 05:04 PM (Cid/I)

30 I love how the dude just straight up with no hesitation or quiet politeness said, no dumbass "you got it WRONG!" snap, snap, photos snapping...

Hillary could have called a native speaker of Russian, but apparently she decided to rely on, who knows, her good buddy Joe Wilson and BabbleFish.

HEH.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at March 06, 2009 05:04 PM (uql7F)

31 James Brown,  I mean  Michelle O is in the Daily Mail UK in her prom dress....looks like a nightgown....bad gifts, scandal concerning her law degree, and patient dumping.....now this fashion faux pas.......jackie o.........not


no wonder she hates America....we have the paper trail.....and this glorious picture in the daily mail.....

Posted by: free at March 06, 2009 05:04 PM (cFwGO)

32

I posted this link in several threads today because I really have never been embarrassed, FOR my Country, as I am today.

We are strong. and great. and proud....

Well, we used to be. 

Posted by: outraged at March 06, 2009 05:05 PM (penCf)

33 Паника Кнопка

An Obama era global suggestion.



Posted by: Long Island at March 06, 2009 05:06 PM (XHzEP)

34 ...a red button on a black base with a Russian word peregruzka printed on top.

It was located right on the top, right between the toy Marine One helicopters and the 25 DVD set of the greatest American films at the White House gift shop.

Posted by: David in San Diego at March 06, 2009 05:06 PM (GF+6V)

35 I'm glad Palin is in the Whitehouse doing stupid things...we narrowly dodged that bullet.

Posted by: Bald Ninja at March 06, 2009 05:06 PM (4pdbX)

36 By "smart," we actually mean "peaux-meaux, affirmative-action, snarky, fuzzy new mathematical, anti-anti-anti intellectual dilettantism."   In other words, 6 ounces of Jimmy Dean sausage stuffed into a 12-ounce package.    

Posted by: Teh Obama Edminstration at March 06, 2009 05:06 PM (n2eCn)

37 Maybe there's no Russian word for "reset".

Why would there be?

Not that it matters.  So much for the so-called "Smart Power Diplomacy".  Pootie Poot just went to his bunk.

Posted by: SlaveDog at March 06, 2009 05:07 PM (LDTnn)

38

30 I love how the dude just straight up with no hesitation or quiet politeness said, no dumbass "you got it WRONG!" snap, snap, photos snapping...

Hillary could have called a native speaker of Russian, but apparently she decided to rely on, who knows, her good buddy Joe Wilson and BabbleFish.

HEH.

 

And why not?  They have no respect for idiots, like those currently in the US gov't. 

Posted by: Sasha at March 06, 2009 05:07 PM (W0B71)

39 The translation I saw was :

"peregruzka" — meant "overloaded" or "overcharged" rather than "reset."

As in "She overloaded and ready to bring down."

But that's just conspiracy nonsense.

Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie at March 06, 2009 05:07 PM (nIBd1)

40 You know, we could be making the world really nervous right now. Before, we had at least people who looked competent. Now we've got idiots out of The Benny Hill Show running the nation. It's got to have them freaked out- both our allies and our enemies.  Perhaps they think we are faking incompetence, and have Obama etc. as cover for our nefarious secret plan for World Domination.

Sigh.

What I wouldn't do for a nefarious secret plan right now...

Posted by: shibumi at March 06, 2009 05:07 PM (tZB/c)

41 Anyway, it's just a so deviously ironic that Hillary's "reset" the foreign policy dig at Bush just blew up in her fucking face...

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at March 06, 2009 05:08 PM (uql7F)

42 For the record, it's not "BabbleFish" -- it's "babelfish," which originated in the works of Douglas Adams.

Posted by: h2u at March 06, 2009 05:10 PM (TZKUw)

43 So our diplomatic ideas are coming from Staples ads now?

Posted by: Harry Callahan at March 06, 2009 05:10 PM (fagDq)

44

Did we retire the "WAF" acronym or something, and I just didn't get the memo?  Cause I never see anyone use it anymore, even when its perfectly appropriate.

WAF.

Posted by: Fred at March 06, 2009 05:10 PM (J5aoU)

45

In America you hit reset

In Soviet Russia reset hit you

Posted by: polysmirnoff at March 06, 2009 05:10 PM (m2CN7)

46 I can't wait to see some of the gifts we get in return, especially from the Russians.

Posted by: Blogluddite at March 06, 2009 05:11 PM (fDWFP)

47 The online dictionary I tried translated it as overload. 

Hey, Madam FatAss, Google it!

Posted by: O-Dub at March 06, 2009 05:12 PM (y5ZhH)

48 You have to think GWB is down in Texas just laughing his ass off....

Posted by: Saluki at March 06, 2009 05:12 PM (Lh1qk)

49 19
THEY. CAN'T. GET. A. WORD. RIGHT!?

Thanks, Team Obama.

We are officially the ones at the nudist colony with the smallest dick.

Blue Balls the Pirate will have the Cabinet position of his choice in my administration.



Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 06, 2009 05:13 PM (bu0Ek)

50 "overcharge"

Actually the button was meant for American taxpayers.

Posted by: Long Island at March 06, 2009 05:14 PM (XHzEP)

51 Oh, my sides!

Posted by: jaleach at March 06, 2009 05:14 PM (gHrZU)

52 Maybe they got a handle of Stoli in return.

Would seem appropriate.

Posted by: Techie. at March 06, 2009 05:14 PM (QYuCD)

53

Dammit, Ace --

She tried. That's all that matters.

Posted by: FireHorse at March 06, 2009 05:15 PM (5KNeJ)

54 By any standard or language, putting peregruzka on a reset button translates into moron, so it's nice to see Lavrov being diplomatic.

Posted by: Dusty at March 06, 2009 05:17 PM (4sMx3)

55 I just saw the video. Hillary barked out that fake-ass laugh she used during the campaign in an attempt to simulate human amusement.

She has to be boiling with rage. I bet she stomped the cock off of whoever was responsible for that little fuckup.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at March 06, 2009 05:17 PM (bu0Ek)

56 Or was that Lavrov's idea of a joke?

Posted by: ken at March 06, 2009 05:17 PM (SDc54)

57 How embarrassing. While giving the Bush administration the back of her hand, she stumbles over her own feet.

Reset, yea, reset the last election.

Posted by: Admr. Sebastian B. O. Buniontow VI at March 06, 2009 05:18 PM (NLtVk)

58 Oops... guess not.

Posted by: ken at March 06, 2009 05:19 PM (SDc54)

59

I'm going to laugh first, and then cry.

Just how fucked are we, anyway?

Posted by: Fallen Sparrow at March 06, 2009 05:19 PM (SOf9N)

60 I feel so safe and confident, knowing that at 3:00 AM, Obama is the one with his finger on the peregruzka button.

Posted by: Dr Mabuse at March 06, 2009 05:19 PM (AVYqB)

61

I want to know why these "intelligent" people are making mistakes, that even a red-necked farmer from Ohio, wouldn't make.

My neck hurts because I spend all day looking down and shaking my head in disgust.  There hasn't been one news item that has made me proud of 'our' Commander-in-Thief, or his (lack of) Admin.  Shouldn't people be crawling all over themselves to work with this 'historic Admin'?

Posted by: outraged at March 06, 2009 05:19 PM (penCf)

62 First of all, a button with the word 'reset' is suppose to be a charming gesture? Eh? I must be lacking the DNA to understand the logic behind that notion. And no one at the State Department knows how to use an online language translating tool, even if absolutely not a single person in the entire state department knows how to speak Russian?

Posted by: IC at March 06, 2009 05:20 PM (jZNCU)

63

Two major protocol screwups in one week . . . and protocol is run by the State Department . . . which is run by Obama's bitterest rival.

 

Nothing to see hear, move along!

Posted by: Cobalt Shiva at March 06, 2009 05:22 PM (4NIVG)

64  Let me point out that 'peregruzka' means "overcharge" in the sense of electricity, not money, but its main meaning is overload.

Pere = over
Gruzit' = v. load


Posted by: JB at March 06, 2009 05:24 PM (rVxHX)

65 During grad school a few years back we were in Uzbekistan for a project and I traveled everywhere with m English-Russian pocket dictionary and did not make such a dumb ass mistake. Should have send my copy to our state department.

Posted by: IC at March 06, 2009 05:25 PM (jZNCU)

66 This would be grand comedy if it weren't so fucking terrifying!

Man I hope there's something good on TV tonight.

Posted by: Dave at March 06, 2009 05:25 PM (Xm1aB)

67 Hillary!'s Noo SMART Diplomacy©

Posted by: Faye Kinnitt at March 06, 2009 05:27 PM (l1oyw)

68
The only federal bureaucracy more inept than INS is State.


Posted by: Darling at March 06, 2009 05:28 PM (OaOHR)

69

At least she didn't give him a snowglobe of Chernobyl.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E. Buzz Miller at March 06, 2009 05:30 PM (cTHpq)

70 A funny SOB over in the Corner just posted that aside from the translation screwup, didn't we spend several decades trying to keep the Russians from pushing the button?

Posted by: Dave at March 06, 2009 05:30 PM (Xm1aB)

71 If Putin was a stock, I'd be buying right now.

Posted by: nickless at March 06, 2009 05:30 PM (MMC8r)

72 So, Mr. Stewart, another riff on Bush tonight?

Posted by: adamthemad at March 06, 2009 05:31 PM (kIjlp)

73

63 Interesting idea..I mean, the State Department can't be this stupid, can they? Sabotage by Hill, perhaps? Or are the people running it truly this inept? 

Posted by: '80sBaby at March 06, 2009 05:32 PM (a1BsN)

74 When I heard this a few hours ago, I thought it was a joke.  Now I see it on politico and that the button is being corrected.

I am now more inclined that this was some prank by a person who is probably taking a permanent vacation now.

Posted by: A.G. at March 06, 2009 05:33 PM (JoIvi)

75 Condi's laughing her ass off.

Posted by: baldilocks at March 06, 2009 05:34 PM (pTXC6)

76 Better yet, how about sabotage by Obama? After all, it's Hillary who is on the world stage making a complete doofus of herself.

Posted by: Dave at March 06, 2009 05:34 PM (Xm1aB)

77 Please say ace got punked by the onion on this one.

Posted by: David at March 06, 2009 05:34 PM (NgoAe)

78 #69

Please stop! I was already laughing so hard my sides hurt. I can hardly breathe.

Posted by: Dave at March 06, 2009 05:37 PM (Xm1aB)

79 Colonizing of Mars, anyone?

Posted by: Adriane at March 06, 2009 05:38 PM (W7nzI)

80 Have they gotten anything right so far?

It's like the Keystone Cops.


Posted by: mesablue at March 06, 2009 05:38 PM (5yNaE)

81 64 is correct.  I'm stll trying to figure out what "reset" would be.  I was looking up some options in the Oxford dictionary, but this is one of those situations where you just need a native speaker.  The US is absolutely crawling with bright Soviet immigrants--they should have been able to get this one right.   

Posted by: Amy P at March 06, 2009 05:39 PM (E5E4P)

82 73

63 Interesting idea..I mean, the State Department can't be this stupid, can they? Sabotage by Hill, perhaps? Or are the people running it truly this inept?

Umm, my guess would be "Yes They Can" be that stupid and inept.

Posted by: RoadRunner at March 06, 2009 05:40 PM (SKS9c)

83 This whole frigging administration is nothing but silly ass clowns from top to bottom. What a bunch of fucking tools, if brains were dynamite they couldn't blow a ripple in a teaspoon of piss.

Posted by: Berserker at March 06, 2009 05:40 PM (gWHrG)

84 I think P.J. O'Rourke once called this kind of thing "The Jimmy Carter Strategy."  I'm paraphrasing (and from memory), but the crux of the joke was that the idea that the Soviet Union, at least, wouldn't have any freakin' clue what we were up to and would have to spend time worrying about Carter accidentally sitting on The Button....

I know I've said this before, but I really do think Obama is a genius.  After all, it takes a rara avis indeed to make Jimmy Carter look competent and Bill Clinton look classy.  And O! has done it in 40 days....

Posted by: bullfrog at March 06, 2009 05:41 PM (ZWAiI)

85 I don't get it.

"Reset"?


Posted by: Larry Sheldon at March 06, 2009 05:41 PM (OmeRL)

86

Actually few State officers can speak more than one foreign language and probably less than one per cent can speak Russian.  Of these less than one per cent can speak it like a native (Level five). 

 

State discorages language training which is obvious given the pathetic qualifications of speakers.  By this means it is able to restrict the posting of officers to the select few.  For example they will not send non language qualified officers to Japan or Germany although most Germans or Japanese speak some English.  However they will send the same non language qualified officers to Mongolia, Baghdad or Pakistan because no one in their right mind wishes to be assigned there. 

Just remember whenever someone trots out a State officer that these cretins have fewer qualifications than a military officer of the same age and experience in terms of education, experience and language proficiency.

 

Posted by: Thomas Jackson at March 06, 2009 05:43 PM (0Qynq)

87

"Babelfish says the Russian translation for "reset" is: âîçâðàò"..

More or less.

'Peregruzka' means any sort of 'overload' and is the word used in spaceflight to describe 'G-forces' during launch and landing -- you know, the much higher acceleration than normal earth gravity, that pulls your cheeks down over your ears, flattens your eyeballs into Mason-mint-shaped jello in your sockets, pools your blood in the back end of your cranium around the medula oblongata thingie, pops all 'outie' belly buttons into 'innies' permanently, pushes your belt buckle through your navel, and -- for half of a random population -- pulls your scrotum down between your legs until it nestles in your anus.

THIS is what Hillary was wishing on the Russian!

Hey, it's OK by ME!!!

JimO (www dot jamesoberg dot com)

 

Posted by: 'Big Jim' in Texas at March 06, 2009 05:43 PM (P1cdc)

88 What a bunch of dumb fucks! This is amature hour in the State Dept., empty heads that need a teleprompter to wipe their ass!

Posted by: Michael_me at March 06, 2009 05:46 PM (vl19u)

89 Lost in Translation.

The correct Russian word should have been "perezagruzka", which means reset instead of "peregruzka", which means overcharge.

That is an innocent mistake that a non Russian translator could make. Since most translators in the State dept. are from Armenian descent, then mistakes like this in the future are bound to happen.

You would hate for Obama's phrase, Let it Be,
be translated as let shit be.

Posted by: Kolchak at March 06, 2009 05:47 PM (0eJbm)

90 we. are. so. fucked.

Posted by: 3x12ax7 at March 06, 2009 05:48 PM (GzZVw)

91 A gazillion graduates of the DLI Russian basic and intermediate courses live in the DC area (a lot of them are my friends and one is more than a friend).  Hillary couldn't find any of them?

Posted by: baldilocks at March 06, 2009 05:48 PM (pTXC6)

92

The phrase you are looking for is:

fuck ãðóïïû(cluster fuck)

Posted by: Tex at March 06, 2009 05:49 PM (73eJg)

93 The next gift Hillary should give Lavov is the right hand of the staffer involved in getting the button made, in a larger box.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 06, 2009 05:49 PM (z1N6a)

94 "And no one at the State Department knows how to use an online language translating tool, even if absolutely not a single person in the entire state department knows how to speak Russian?"

[IC at March 06, 2009 05:20 PM]

Yes, they all got A's for effort in their Russian and Computer Skilz courses because they worked really hard.

Posted by: Dusty at March 06, 2009 05:50 PM (4sMx3)

95 #89 - Most Armenians immigrants I know speak really good Russian, especially the older ones. I know the State Department has native Russian speaker, and if they were really serious about getting it right, they could have checked with the PR guys at the Russian Consulate in DC.

Posted by: IC at March 06, 2009 05:52 PM (jZNCU)

96 although most Germans or Japanese speak some English.

Yes, for Germany. No, for Japan.

Posted by: adamthemad at March 06, 2009 05:52 PM (kIjlp)

97 Holy Jeez. They really need to hire someone to be in charge of gift giving. Someone like Martha Stewart, maybe?

T

Posted by: Nice Deb at March 06, 2009 05:52 PM (MHx40)

98 "Overloaded" was meant to refer to Hillary's ass

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at March 06, 2009 05:53 PM (taJZA)

99

"Reset", as in the Obama administration wants to reset the US-Russia relationship back to the Carter era, along with everything else.

 

I heard the tape on Rush (strangely, I've been listenuingto him a lot more since he took over the "leadership of the party"). Hillary didn't laugh...she gave The Cackle®......the one that sends sane people off of the bridge....

Posted by: Luca Brasi at March 06, 2009 05:54 PM (YmPwQ)

100 must be this "smart" power i been hearing about.

Posted by: slizzle at March 06, 2009 05:54 PM (zG+3k)

101

The Russians gave Clinton a reset button in return.  Obama is supposed to keep it in front of him on his desk in the Oval Office at all times.  It's a BLUE button on a white base.*

*the base is made of solid polonium

Posted by: Speller at March 06, 2009 05:54 PM (iYtzV)

102 Suppose the word was spelled correctly.  Isn't this still the most juvenile stunt in the history of serious diplomacy?  You see, we need to reset our relations after that moron Bush messed up so badly, so we will give you this toy to symbolize our wonderful change. Sad.

Posted by: Rob at March 06, 2009 05:55 PM (6RXRj)

103 I'll bet $5 that the mindpattern starchildren at State thought that since the word looked like "perestroika" it had to be good!

Posted by: Jack M. at March 06, 2009 05:56 PM (eOEgY)

104 She's always been a Russian sympathizer, even when it was still the communist Soviet Union.  She never changes--she loves anything that stands against what America stands up for.

Posted by: Comrade Tovya at March 06, 2009 05:59 PM (DAaYy)

105 I can't wait to see some of the gifts we get in return, especially from the Russians.

They've gifted us plenty for the last 90 years.  Let's do that thing where friends don't exchange anything anymore.

Posted by: tachyonshuggy at March 06, 2009 06:00 PM (gljje)

106 What so great is that Obama gave his little speech chastising America for only speaking English while the rest of the world was multi lingual.

Posted by: polysmirnoff at March 06, 2009 06:00 PM (m2CN7)

107 If Palin had done this...

Posted by: bse5150 at March 06, 2009 06:00 PM (3D+A0)

108

Press PEREGRUZKA on 11/6/12.

Posted by: FireHorse at March 06, 2009 06:01 PM (5KNeJ)

109 What so great is that Obama gave his little speech chastising America for only speaking English while the rest of the world was multi lingual.

What was Obama's second language?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2009 06:02 PM (ZR5Ik)

110 Yup, we gots us a new 'ministration wif all kinds a class, don't we?

Posted by: GarandFan at March 06, 2009 06:03 PM (237hA)

111 Tsk, tsk, Madame Secretary. You are such a muzhik. Truly, like fish against ice.

Do svidaniya,

Dmitri

Posted by: Dmitri_Medvedev at March 06, 2009 06:04 PM (zjgCD)

112 Russian humor has a lot of word play. So maybe they are not so upset by this.

However, I am annoyed. What is the Madame Secretary telling them ... the US is willing to redo all previous diplomacy?

Posted by: Long Island at March 06, 2009 06:04 PM (XHzEP)

113
Anyone else wondering where all the love is we were supposed to get from all these countries that supposedly hated us because of Bush?

I'm just not feelin' it.

Posted by: Dang at March 06, 2009 06:05 PM (xhwOW)

114
What was Obama's second language?

Pig Latin.  It comes in handy when dealing with all the pork.

Posted by: Dang at March 06, 2009 06:06 PM (xhwOW)

115 If Palin had done this...

Hey evangelicals are trying to take away your right to choose an abortion.
Rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot who wants you all out of work.
Republicans hate black people and are nazis.
It's all George Bush's fault.

Please focus.

Love,

Obama and the media

Posted by: David at March 06, 2009 06:07 PM (NgoAe)

116 I am beginning to wonder if we are being punked. 

Almost an entire cabinet full of tax cheating nominees, including Doogie Houser, Treasury Secretary.  A VP who is like the idiot uncle Billy on It's a Wonderful Life.  An America-hating first lady of grievance who doesn't give a shit that she insulted the wife of a foreign leader by giving their boys a really crappy gift.  Around $4 Trillion Dollars of spending on socialist pork.  And a deer-caught-in-the-headlights Commrad in Chief who can only read stuff off a teleprompter put there by his handlers/puppeteers. 

This is going to be a very depressing 4 years.

Posted by: Suzy at March 06, 2009 06:08 PM (p4IN8)

117 Democrats love the 'victim' so much, that they want to piss away America's military strength and the strategic clout that comes with it. Then they can make America play the glorified victim, grovel in front of China and Russia and attain the moral high ground.

Motherfuckers.

Posted by: Tushar at March 06, 2009 06:12 PM (PTWes)

118 I guess "reset" means the SALT and START treaties are null and void & Obama is going to sell Alaska to Russia.

Posted by: Speller at March 06, 2009 06:14 PM (iYtzV)

119 Well, see, if they really WERE socialists, wouldn't they know how to speak commie?

Posted by: The Totally Objective Media at March 06, 2009 06:15 PM (xWk3U)

120 >>I am beginning to wonder if we are being punked. Actually, it could be Hillary thats being punked with this one. I seem to remember the Obamas didn't like her all that much, flipping her off and not offering the VP slot, etc. Maybe they thought it would be harmless fun at her expense.

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at March 06, 2009 06:15 PM (taJZA)

121

No cure for stupid. Here is a clue for all the idiots that voted for Obama. A lack of experience does result in incompetence.

As far as Clinton goes, if she had not been trying so hard to please Russia, she would not have committed this gaffe. In this case, gaffe and stupidity are interchangeable.

Posted by: Harry at March 06, 2009 06:17 PM (zFde/)

122

Why in God's name are we giving Russians access to any kind of button? Isn't the whole idea to keep them AWAY from buttons?

What's Russian for "dipshit", by the way...

Posted by: Jack Savage at March 06, 2009 06:17 PM (5zs5M)

123

This idiocy happens all the time.

The Boeing 747 making the first commerical U.S. flight  to China in many years had the name "Yankee Clipper" emblazoned on the side of its fuselage.

Only what it really said was "Yankee Scissors".

Jimmy Carter went to Poland and told the Poles, in Polish, "I know you".  

What he really said was "I know you carnally" --IOW as in the bible when it speaks of knowing a woman.

Then there's the time a female Russian journalist swooned over Clinton, sighing "ya tee-byá lyoo-blyóo"  --- "I love you", which Der Schlick happily took as meaning "I want to blow you".

OK, I made the last part up.

Posted by: effinayright at March 06, 2009 06:18 PM (Odl8J)

124 Why didn't they just ask Condi freakin' Rice?  She speaks Russian like a motherfucker.  These people have goddam rocks in their heads.

Posted by: scottythrust at March 06, 2009 06:19 PM (W/KB3)

125 Condi would've told them it was a dumb fkn gift, too.

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at March 06, 2009 06:23 PM (taJZA)

126 Press PEREGRUZKA on 11/6/12.

Correction. It is Perezagruzka

Posted by: Kolchak at March 06, 2009 06:24 PM (0eJbm)

127 Hey, remember how funny that was when Tina Fey pretended to be Sarah Palin and said, "I can see Russia from my house!"?

And all the Obama supporters thought Palin said it?

Yeah....pretty awesome. Good times.


Posted by: Warden at March 06, 2009 06:25 PM (QoR4a)

128 At least the MSM is beginning to report on this kinda chit.

Posted by: Greg Toombs at March 06, 2009 06:25 PM (URFAu)

129 There's nothing to see here.

In more IMPORTANT national news, Bush is a moron and everything is still his fault.  We call on all good American Patriots who love The One to assemble in the village square with paper-mache heads and be heard, be SEEN, to DENOUNCE the Bush fascism that continues to ruin our economy, to RAGE AGAINST THE TYRANNY OF HEAVEN.

Also, Palin humps mooses.  Take that, chillbilly.

And how here's Bob with the weather, Bob?

Posted by: The Totally Objective Media at March 06, 2009 06:25 PM (xWk3U)

130 Lost in Translation.

The correct Russian word should have been "perezagruzka", which means reset instead of "peregruzka", which means overcharge.

That is an innocent mistake that a non Russian translator could make. Since most translators in the State dept. are from Armenian descent, then mistakes like this in the future are bound to happen.

You would hate for Obama's phrase, Let it Be,
be translated as let shit be.


Of course, this could have been done on purpose by one of those Russian defectors/translators, who don't want the US to cozy up to KGB agent run Russia.

Posted by: Kolchak at March 06, 2009 06:26 PM (0eJbm)

131 Masha Kipp would have had my head if I made such a "red cat" mistake back when I was in grad school.  I went to grad school with graduates of DLI, and they could have done a better job. I too, join the chorus of "seriously, in Washington they could not find anyone who could do a decent translation?"

Posted by: JamesT at March 06, 2009 06:28 PM (blYjC)

132

Did Obambi bring ANY adults to DC wih him? 

Skippy the Wonder Poodle and his Klingon War Bride, Mash-Hell - how in the world, in a nation of 300+ million people, did we wind up with these two clown fucks running the show.

You know it's bad when people start looking forward to the Biden Administration. All that money we give to mental health programs around the country and every nut job on the planet winds up in the Obambi White House. If Hollywood had written a movie this fucked up during the Bush administration they'd given it an Oscar.

Now - not so much.

Posted by: Murph at March 06, 2009 06:29 PM (WrP0N)

133 IN OTHER IMPORTANT AND RELEVANT NEWS:

Watchmen: should you see it now, or wait until it's socially unacceptable to appear in public without an intimate knowledge of glowing blue CGI man-bits?  Find out on our opinion segment, which is later on because it's TOTALLY different from the rest of our hard-hitting, multilayered fact-filled broadcast.

Posted by: The Totally Objective Media at March 06, 2009 06:29 PM (xWk3U)

134

OK, my brain has officially frozen up. It refuses to believe this latest gaffe is real, even with video evidence. This. Can't. Be. Real. No. Really. Not. Real. La La La I can't hear you real world, I can't fucking hear you.

Seriously, there is no one in the State Department who can figure out how to put the right word on the button? And no one at the State Department who thinks it might be just a tad uggedy boogedy to give the Russians a big red button to push anyway? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

p.s. In the meantime North Korea has threatened South Korean passenger jets that fly in its air space, causing South Korea to re-route flights and earning a frowny face from someone, somewhere in the Obama administration who is quoted as saying that North Korea's move is "distinctly unhelpful."

p.p.s. And Chavez urges Obama to pursue socialism.

Posted by: ParanoidInSeattle at March 06, 2009 06:30 PM (AJ4xq)

135 Oh, most of Obama's phrases sound better in their native Russian anyhow.

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at March 06, 2009 06:30 PM (taJZA)

136 And now tonight's guest political analyst; a well known and internationally respected genius, heir to the legacy of the world's greatest and most beloved commentators.

Miss O'Donnell, how are you?

Posted by: The Totally Objective Media at March 06, 2009 06:32 PM (xWk3U)

137 What next?
A pair of fine pig skin gloves for an avid golfer from the House of Saud?

Posted by: lotocoti at March 06, 2009 06:33 PM (2OVtm)

138 You know, I don't recall any of these protocol problems with prior administrations.

Posted by: Mikey NTH at March 06, 2009 06:34 PM (TUWci)

139 And on further thought, if State did not want to sully its hands with a DLI graduate, I am sure Washington must be crawling with crunchy graduates of Middleberry College in Vermont and no small percentage must be within State.  There is really no excuse for this.

Posted by: JamesT at March 06, 2009 06:35 PM (blYjC)

140 Russians and buttons...

There's a most likely apocryphal Carter-era story about the SALT II talks, where negotiations were being conducted in a Moscow conference room. During a break, one of the American junior negotiators was mesmerized by a red button on the table (an electronic gavel). When he presses the button, a LOUD buzzer sounded, startling everyone. The normally humorless and stonefaced Andrei Gromyko smirked, and remarked "there goes Washington". One of the other Russians began playing it up, pleading "Call Brezhinski! Call Brezhinski! For God's sake, tell him it's a mistake!".

From one of Strobe Talbott's books, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2009 06:36 PM (ZR5Ik)

141 Holy shit.  I have to laugh, because otherwise, I will cry.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 06, 2009 06:36 PM (knR0d)

142 I have to go see The Watchmen now - BUT might be fun to do 5 star reviews for this book http://tinyurl.com/aztquh ....and sign it Hillary, Barry Obama, Michelle.....

Posted by: Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight at March 06, 2009 06:37 PM (taJZA)

143

Secretary of Fate Sir Edmund Hillary Rodham Clinton pulls another boner with a spectacular gaff of undetermined proportions.

Hillary, you magnificent cunt!

Posted by: Fish at March 06, 2009 06:37 PM (CG+cG)

144 Ok, we have the obama cheap ass gifts to the Prime Minister of (Once) Great Britan.  From what I have heard the staff that got the gifts falls under the state department.  Now we have clinton fucking up a cheap ass button for her counterpart in the Russian government.

Anybody else wondering just how much "help" hillary and her department is to obama?

Posted by: Deathknyte at March 06, 2009 06:40 PM (9Phrx)

145 Ready to lead from Day One. I know I could go to the Washington Post to find out seamless and super smart this admin transition has been, but these people are world class fuck ups.

Posted by: sears poncho at March 06, 2009 06:40 PM (uj/0b)

146 How do you say unicorns and skittles in Russian?

Just askin'

Posted by: GuyfromNH at March 06, 2009 06:41 PM (faJDZ)

147 Anywhere else you'd have to pay a lot for this kind of entertainment...but we got it for the bargain price of $3T

Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 06, 2009 06:47 PM (Ygf78)

148 Foreign policy by Yosemite Sam when what we need is Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: aubrey at March 06, 2009 06:47 PM (U1Lxs)

149 When I think of a diplomatic present for the other side of the Cold War, I do not think of a BIG FUCKING RED BUTTON.

Posted by: Sortelli at March 06, 2009 06:48 PM (w6o24)

150 "How do you say unicorns and skittles in Russian?"

Bullshit (but with a thick Russian accent)

Posted by: David at March 06, 2009 06:53 PM (NgoAe)

151 How much you wanna bet that it actually WAS a Staples Easy Button....with the Russian word written on a piece of masking tape.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2009 06:54 PM (ZR5Ik)

152

Has anyone heard this: that Hillary gave the Chi-coms the guarantee of eminent domain as collateral.

How can this be?

Posted by: Ariel at March 06, 2009 06:57 PM (JkZ2s)

153

Has anyone heard this: that Hillary gave the Chi-coms the guarantee of eminent domain as collateral.

How can this be?

Didn't happen; just interwebthingy B.S.

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:01 PM (xukku)

154 Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall, there was this one:
"Matters of great concern should be treated lightly."
Master Ittei commented,
"Matters of small concern should be treated seriously."

Posted by: Beto The Elder at March 06, 2009 07:01 PM (qHQmV)

155

Has anyone heard this: that Hillary gave the Chi-coms the guarantee of eminent domain as collateral.

Didn't that get debunked last week?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2009 07:01 PM (ZR5Ik)

156
LOL
Hillary's "reset" the foreign policy dig at Bush just blew up in her fucking face... Posted by: Topsecretk9

NUANCE
Bungling Hillary "overcharges" another Freudian slip admitting both corruption and ineptitude. And she worked so hard to find just he right word; proof that the application of liberal good intentions motivate consequences worse than doing nothing. What a brazen, stupid, mule headed jackass she is.

What an incompetent and amateur presidency Botch Obama has.

The Obama Doctrine is Default Diplomacy.




Posted by: maverick muse at March 06, 2009 07:02 PM (qHQmV)

157

Let's play a word association game!!! *FUN* YES!?

Incompetent

Obama!

Incomeptent

Obama's entire staff!

 

what did I win?

Posted by: ted at March 06, 2009 07:02 PM (C8Pcc)

158 Calling this administration Carter II is an insult to Carter.

Posted by: ricky at March 06, 2009 07:03 PM (K7r76)

159 You have to think GWB is down in Texas just laughing his ass off....

Actually, he's probably more concerned about his mother's recovery from open-heart surgery than about Mrs. Bubba's screwups.

Posted by: PA Cat at March 06, 2009 07:03 PM (lgl0Q)

160

 

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:05 PM (xukku)

161 ITC: I saw that button and it wasn't even as good as a Staples button. It looked like a few yellow and red lego pieces thrown together. Righty-O; a good submission for FailBlog, I'm thinking tho.

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:06 PM (xukku)

162 Obama hates the Brits for cultural reasons, and he treats them with thinly veiled contempt like all his foes. (Think of all the middle fingers he has given his rivals during public forums)

He believes that all military threats against the US were conservative fantasy (or reaction against conservative policy), so he does not feel the need to have a good relationship with the UK. Just like he will draw down the military budget.




Posted by: erik at March 06, 2009 07:06 PM (tyGSd)

163 If I'm GWB I'm about 1 week from rallying the troops.  Yes. I did consider all that that entails.

Posted by: ted at March 06, 2009 07:06 PM (C8Pcc)

164

If I'm GWB I'm about 1 week from rallying the troops.  Yes. I did consider all that that entails.

That's seven layers of awesomeness right there!

If only...

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:08 PM (xukku)

165

Hillary meant well. She fucked it up, but she meant well.

Throw this on the "If George Bush Did This" pile.

Posted by: Jones at March 06, 2009 07:10 PM (KOkrW)

166 The only diplomacy I know is Ex-Lax!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 06, 2009 07:10 PM (oEAm5)

167

Has anyone heard this: that Hillary gave the Chi-coms the guarantee of eminent domain as collateral.

Didn't that get debunked last week? --Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Someone told me that last weekend Alex Jones said there's nothing to substantiate that story. Had there been, he'd no doubt be on it.

The point remains that Hillary has a huge credibility deficit, and people believe that she WOULD do that without batting an eye.

Posted by: maverick muse at March 06, 2009 07:11 PM (qHQmV)

168

In fact, at this point, I pledge my allegience "To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all."

The rest of you commie bastards best begin hidin'

We're comin' motherf*&*$^%

Posted by: ted at March 06, 2009 07:11 PM (C8Pcc)

169 "How do you say unicorns and skittles in Russian?"

Bullshit (but with a thick Russian accent)

Posted by: David at March 06, 2009 06:53 PM (NgoAe)

 

BULLSHITSKI!

Posted by: Jones at March 06, 2009 07:11 PM (KOkrW)

170 Once the One screwed up, everybody else has to screw-up worse, its a respect thing.

Posted by: Jean at March 06, 2009 07:12 PM (xCBQ4)

171 Get Smart diplomacy. Sorry about that, Chief.

Posted by: mark c at March 06, 2009 07:13 PM (5TzIe)

172 Actually, he's probably more concerned about his mother's recovery from open-heart surgery
Posted by: PA Cat

A speedy recovery, Barbara!

Posted by: maverick muse at March 06, 2009 07:13 PM (qHQmV)

173

Hillary meant well. She fucked it up, but she meant well.

Might there be some, um, possibility that somebody fucked it up for her? She has been out of the country a big bunch; it almost looks like it's on purpose. Maybe I have a tad too much foil on the hat today, but what if this was some kind of magnificent Rahmbo stunt to make her (through one of her staff) look like an idiot?

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:15 PM (xukku)

174

At  least she didn't offer up her love button. You know the lil' man in the boat as a gift.

That would've been an internatioal disaster of epic proportions.

Posted by: Blazer at March 06, 2009 07:18 PM (9XXMp)

175 On a roll , she is .
I'm starting to think stockpiling ammo isn't such a bad idea afterall .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 06, 2009 07:19 PM (d0YiG)

176 Ah shucks, Sir Edmund Hillary's heart was in the right place.  Just as it was when she fired the travel office to replace them with her "people."

Posted by: Fish at March 06, 2009 07:19 PM (CG+cG)

177

The best part is that of course this was meant to be a poke in the eye for Bush - the diplomacy had to be reset by Hillary because you know those damn Bushies screwed it up.

Nice work, Pantsuit. 

Posted by: blaster at March 06, 2009 07:20 PM (vnJkO)

178

You know the lil' man in the boat as a gift.

You must be gently describing a giant taco with a thumb size penis?

Posted by: Fish at March 06, 2009 07:21 PM (CG+cG)

179 So, what did Lavrov give Hillary?  A bra and a girdle, or just a girdle, size 48?

Posted by: Old Sailor at March 06, 2009 07:21 PM (/Ft4q)

180

I'm starting to think stockpiling ammo isn't such a bad idea afterall .

Hurry. Seriously.

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:24 PM (xukku)

181 Ya'll watch-Obama will give the Queen a set of steak knives and year subscription to Omaha Steaks. And a fist bump.

Posted by: CozMark at March 06, 2009 07:24 PM (ghqHa)

182 When did they start putting warning labels on ammo to "Keep Out Of Reach Of Children"?! I managed to find some today after hitting a few places and saw that warning label. Amazing.

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:26 PM (xukku)

183 I can't wait to see some of the gifts we get in return, especially from the Russians.

I'm thinking a $20 East German watch.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 06, 2009 07:27 PM (XIXhw)

184

Ya'll watch-Obama will give the Queen a set of steak knives and year subscription to Omaha Steaks. And a fist bump.

HA!

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:28 PM (xukku)

185 Welcome to the nanny state Cyn , no thought required ...... 'cept when it comes to taxes , then you better pay the fuck attention .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 06, 2009 07:29 PM (d0YiG)

186

Hillary was given a picture of Bill when he was president, getting his root waxed by young Russian intern named Monicski.

Posted by: Sparky at March 06, 2009 07:30 PM (J1f2W)

187 Thank God she didn't present to him a brown button.

Seriously, do none of the fucking bungtappers in the Obama Administration know how to stop campaigning?

Posted by: Bubba at March 06, 2009 07:32 PM (GtdJ7)

188 At least the MSM is beginning to report on this kinda chit.

Yeah, they won't make that mistake again.  And here they thought they'd have a "rub it in Bush's face moment', only to have it backfire.   Next time there will be a 5 minute 'time delay'.


Posted by: GarandFan at March 06, 2009 07:33 PM (237hA)

189 Queen Elizabeth will also be forced to endure a training session with James Brown on "How to Tone Your Arms."  The Queen has been knocking back a lot of Fish & Chips and Lagers so the workout will be quite difficult.  The Queen should reciprocate to Mr. Brown with the Royal Book of Etiquette & Manners for Colonists."

Posted by: Fish at March 06, 2009 07:33 PM (CG+cG)

190 Ya'll watch-Obama will give the Queen a set of steak knives and year subscription to Omaha Steaks. And a fist bump.

The White House Gift Shop carries steak knives and Omaha Steaks?

Posted by: David in San Diego at March 06, 2009 07:33 PM (GF+6V)

191

No doubt, Mr. Cat, on that nanny shit.

Tho I must admit it's crossed my mind to just say the hell with it, on paying taxes, like so, so many others. Let them catch up to me so I can then blame Turbo Tax like little Timmy G and say that I prepared them but the software fucked up. Or maybe I'll file and when I owe money, I'll just write "Rangel Rule" on the payment slip!

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:34 PM (xukku)

192 Seriously, do none of the fucking bungtappers in the Obama Administration know how to stop campaigning?

No they don't because that's all they've ever done.

Posted by: Ace's liver at March 06, 2009 07:34 PM (XIXhw)

193

Just for shit's and giggles The Queen should sign his freedom papers.

At least it will be some sort of document my beagle could respect since he's wondrin' why he has to have docomented proof  he has a pedigree but our POTUS doesn't.

Posted by: Blazer at March 06, 2009 07:36 PM (9XXMp)

194 This never would have happened if Obama would have kept Condaleeza Rice as Secretary Of State. She not only speaks fluent Russian, but four or five other languages. She was the interpreter when Reagan and Gorbachev met in Iceland.

How hard would it have been to call up the Russian ambassador and ask what to put on the button?

There should have been two buttons, just like there is to launch nukes. It would have symbolized it takes two to make it work.

Posted by: Smorgasbord at March 06, 2009 07:39 PM (CccCE)

195 The world "reset" Noun - return ()
Verb- to reinstall
Return to diplomacy and reinstall relationships between two countries - would be the actual meaning of Biden's word - reset. The meaning of "reset" in combination with visual image - button- in English language might sound well, but will not convey the same meaning in Russian language, especially when using literate translation word by word. Translation is the art Diplomacy is the art Rhetoric is the art
Lapses in language happen. Language with its nuances is the key element in cross-cultural communication, you might say something that you will regret. Oh, well, laugh as she did. She can be forgiven, it happens, relax and just smile. We are humans. Do not scorn woman.
Why judgment comes so easy to people? Why peopel make a big deal from small thing?
Deeds are counted after words and that what matters.

Posted by: Lili at March 06, 2009 07:39 PM (XeNxy)

196 Lapses in language happen....Why peopel make a big deal from small thing?

One word: Nu-cu-lar.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2009 07:47 PM (ZR5Ik)

197 That's nu-clear ..... buffoon .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at March 06, 2009 07:49 PM (d0YiG)

198 That looks like an Emergency-Stop button anyway, not a reset button. Red button on yellow box - E-Stop.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 06, 2009 07:49 PM (42zkl)

199 Hmmm... giving Russia a big red button?  Does that really sounds like a good idea to ANYBODY??

Posted by: InCali at March 06, 2009 07:50 PM (gUKfo)

200

Nu-cu-lar! LOL!

Gawd, I miss W.

 

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 07:52 PM (xukku)

201 Maybe the person who wrote the word was serious.

Posted by: davod at March 06, 2009 07:54 PM (GUZAT)

202

condi is laughing her fucking head off - since she was fluent in russian language.

Score one for condi.

Posted by: paranoid polly at March 06, 2009 07:59 PM (YLNjm)

203

Seriously, Lili, you're missing the point. This administration is one big FAIL button with screw-up after screw-up in the area of diplomacy. Words and actions still mean something everywhere. Giving fucking movies to Brown? Giving plastic toy helicopters to the Brown children? Hillary's gaffe with this button is just one more indication of the complete lack of forersight, and protocol, in our dealings with the rest of this planet. We are being laughed at over this administration's ineptness, and by extension our ineptness as a country to elect someone that knows what the hell they are doing. We are displaying a grave lack of intelligence that will potentially lead to this great country's undoing, from outside and from within.

On the other hand, if you were being sarcastic...that was kinda funny.

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 08:02 PM (xukku)

204 It could have been worse - 25 DVDs ???  Obama is gonaa make carter look like a sophisticate.

Posted by: paranoid polly at March 06, 2009 08:06 PM (YLNjm)

205

Ace's final thought is dead-on:

If they can't take the minute necessary to get the small things right, I don't see why I should have confidence they'll spend the hours and weeks necessary to get the big things right.

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 08:09 PM (xukku)

206 Em...point of information- Empty suit said in his speech he wished to "reBOOT" the Russo-American relationship, not "reSET" it.

So not only did Hills fuck up the translation of Reset, she got the wrong fuckin' word in the first place.

Sad thing is, she's the smart one in the bunch. Ugh.

WAF. WAF x leventy gajillion.

But, but- Rush was on oxycontin and he's the boss of you rethugs!

SNL did a imitation of Palin and stuff!

Shiny Object!!!

Posted by: buster mcDissenter at March 06, 2009 08:09 PM (4ezUN)

207 Aw, c'mon, guys.  I love Hill.  I'm still a PUMA-crat.  There's no real defense as to why she couldn't get the word right, but this is a gaffe -- not a direct insult (ala the Obamas and Brown).  Though, I must say, even I know in Russian that "pere" roughly means "over" in Russian (took it for 4 years in high school, so not enough for me to know what "peregruzka" means).

My Republican relatives still tell me -- to this day -- "you were right -- I would SO take Hillary over Obama right now."  Just like I voted McCain/Palin instead of Democrat (which I'd done for every national office Election until 200.  There's no reason to be nasty about Hillary -- she did great in Asia, and is continuing to do well abroad.

Hill's human.  Both she and Lavrov got a laugh out of it.  She's the only one in the admin seeming to care at all about foreign policy, while Obama is more content to fiddle with our domestic policies, ushering in the new era of "Change."  ... or is it "Overcharge"? ;P

Posted by: lansing quaker at March 06, 2009 08:09 PM (wnNGb)

208 Hmmm... giving Russia a big red button?  Does that really sounds like a good idea to ANYBODY??

Russians dared to joke about it It has been agreed that  "perezagryzka" in both Russian and English should have the same meaning without any different interpretation. Have a sense of humor!

Posted by: Lili at March 06, 2009 08:17 PM (XeNxy)

209

Hill's human.  Both she and Lavrov got a laugh out of it.  She's the only one in the admin seeming to care at all about foreign policy, while Obama is more content to fiddle with our domestic policies, ushering in the new era of "Change."  ... or is it "Overcharge"? ;P

We're ALL human, yes. I'm glad that it was laughted off (at least publically). That said, there USED to be efforts made to get things right. And that is the point. There seems to be no effort whatsoever to 'sweat the small stuff'. Details matter.

Posted by: Cyn at March 06, 2009 08:18 PM (xukku)

210 I had to laugh when this none-too-subtle slap at Bush backfired on that stupid shit, Obastard.  The U.S. government is run by classless idiots. 

Posted by: Reiver at March 06, 2009 08:20 PM (gDQD0)

211 Cyn:

Totally agreed and understand.  It makes the US look silly.  It especially flies in the face of the new "World Peacemaker" meme the Dems think they own.  To wit: "WE understand other cultures, and WE understand others!  We're not ignorant and insular -- we are the cultured party!"

Hill is in the Admin.  Rib her.  I just wish the attacks weren't personal.  I'm getting more conservative by the day, but I still am a "blue dog" Dem at sunset, and while Hillary messed up, she didn't try to actively snub the Russians.  Her SoS tours have been great so far: they're one good light in a domestic policy MESS.

I just wish the attacks weren't so personal.  That's all.  There are a lot of Dems that were pissed off at the Libs for their classism, sexism, and more over people like Hillary (and Palin), and I love my new connection with Republicans.  Slamming Hillary for being fat, a moron, or lumping her in with O does little favors.  Hill f'd up by missing a syllable in a Russian word.  Che sera sera.  But she isn't pushing through porkulus.  And she wouldn't have been were she Prez.

Silver lining.

Posted by: lansing quaker at March 06, 2009 08:23 PM (wnNGb)

212 When you give out gifts to foreign dignitaries should they be something quintessentially American.  The first thing to come to mind is Vermont Maple Syrup.  I'm sure you guys can think of others.

Posted by: silly at March 06, 2009 08:33 PM (zplc6)

213 lansing quaker, a lot of Americans right about now are beginning to think that they should have given HIllary more money and support.

Posted by: silly at March 06, 2009 08:36 PM (zplc6)

214 So, do you think the rest of the world knows how incompetent the current regime is yet or not?  The Russians are just licking their lips at the thought of an idiot being the US president.

Fuck it... this whole United States thing is over.  It is time to start thinking about how we are going to divide up what is left of the country after the Obama-tards are done with it.

Posted by: BenFranklin at March 06, 2009 08:36 PM (r11nM)

215 silly (#212):

Right on.  In the whole gift-snub of the Obamas with the Browns, all I could think of was how thoughtful and timeless the gifts were.  From PM Brown to Pres Obama in particular (the first spouses was more icing on the cake) -- the gifts were historical, timeless, unique, irreplaceable, and absolutely impeccable.

And then Obama gave Brown a copy of "Timecop" on DVD.  What a way to restore our reputation, in reinforcing America's "commercialized culture."  Change indeed.

Love America.  Respect America.  Gift something quintissentially American.  It's not hard -- after all we speak English, are based in a tradition of the British law and culutre, and share many commonalities.
Don't insult America by gifting DVDs and plastic toys (Made in China) to foreign officials and dignitaries. 

Posted by: lansing quaker at March 06, 2009 08:43 PM (wnNGb)

216 That should read "In the whole gift-snub of the Obamas with the Browns, all I could think of was how thoughtful and timeless the gifts TO US were."

Posted by: lansing quaker at March 06, 2009 08:49 PM (wnNGb)

217 Well, thank Heaven we have The Smartest Woman In The World as Secretary of State. Think what would have happened if a dolt had chosen the gift.

Can a woman be a dickhead?

Posted by: MathMom at March 06, 2009 08:52 PM (o+jIZ)

218

When you give out gifts to foreign dignitaries should they be something quintessentially American.

Present day, the most appropriate gift would be the same one given to most taxpayers, a rather elongated black dildo.

Posted by: Fish at March 06, 2009 09:22 PM (CG+cG)

219 should they be something quintessentially American.

An IOU for a trillion dollars fits that bill lately

Posted by: toby928 at March 06, 2009 09:33 PM (PD1tk)

220 46 How do you say unicorns and skittles in Russian?

Just askin'

unicorn-edinorog
skittles-kegly

Not in cryillic of course but phonetically close, and YES, I am a 1989 DLI Russian School Graduate. So there. Nyah. "Yeshtye menya." (Eat me).


Sandman.

Posted by: Enter sandman at March 06, 2009 09:35 PM (zxaA2)

221 Re: the Brown presents. I expected Obama to be an idiot, but I honestly never expected him to immediately reinforce all the prejudices Europeans have ever held about Americans: cheap, vulgar, tacky, parochial, boorish, ignorant and uncultured. Not Obama! Mr. Harvard-educated, "elegant", modulated baritone in a fancy suit! I thought that no matter what, he'd play up to the snobbish set, and get a pass for being one of Nature's aristocrats. But no - he demonstrates he's a no-class vulgarian. Do they still use silverware at the White House, or does he cram down his Wagyu beef with his hands?

Posted by: Dr Mabuse at March 06, 2009 09:39 PM (AVYqB)

222 In August 1939 Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov drank a toast to eternal friendship with his German counterpart Von Ribbentrop after concluding a nefarious alliance between the USSR and the Third Reich.  Molotov made his toast in German, but instead of using the word Freundschaft he said Feindschaft--emnity.  Molotov was inadvertently prophetic.  One wonders if Hillary! was as well....

Posted by: ipw533 at March 06, 2009 09:53 PM (s5N0E)

223 I mean five fucking minutes on a russian dictionary would have gotten this fixed, Hillary:

Overcharge: перезаряд (pyerezaryad)
To reset: сброс (sbros)
Reset button: кнопка сброса (knopka sbrosa)

Jeez. Your fucking tax dollars at work.

Posted by: cheshirecat at March 06, 2009 09:58 PM (FIoyQ)

224 212 When you give out gifts to foreign dignitaries should they be something quintessentially American.  The first thing to come to mind is Vermont Maple Syrup.  I'm sure you guys can think of others.

Posted by: silly at March 06, 2009 08:33 PM (zplc6)

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Posted by: Sen. Frank Church at March 06, 2009 09:59 PM (XsIs/)

225

Don't get personal with Hillary the Bitch?

 

Are you kidding me?  She was, on behalf of the One, intentionally snubbing the Bush admin. with her little "reset" schtick.  It blew up in her fat, ugly face and I've so enjoyed laughing at her and her boss all afternoon.

 

Tears do flow though when I ponder the consequences suffered by some poor State Dept. shmuck who screwed up the translation.  Poor SOB.  But, that's what he/she gets workin' for the Hildebeast.

Posted by: Dave at March 06, 2009 10:00 PM (87clE)

226 Next time you attempt to learn russian, Hillary, learn this phrase:

На калени, сука!

(ask Bill, I bet HE knows it!)

Posted by: cheshirecat at March 06, 2009 10:02 PM (FIoyQ)

227 Condi Rice would have known the correct word to use, and she would also have known that this "gift" would be monstrously inappropriate. She has class, Hillary does not.

O'Bambi needs to take some time and learn American history (not taught by a Marxist this time) so that he can choose gifts as meaningful as PM Brown brought. The problem is, he doesn't care enough about America to give a rat's patootie. He got the job, he's seen the movie, now he can play President on TV!

Posted by: MathMom at March 06, 2009 10:04 PM (o+jIZ)

228

For the record, Babelfish says the Russian translation for "reset" is: âîçâðàm.

"âîçâðàò" isn't a word, it just replicates the sound of  reset in Russian. There is no word for "reset" per se, there are other words that get the meaning across depending on the circumstance.

lorien1973 got it right with "Piz Deitz"; that word perfectly describes the pathetic and clueless obama. "Piz Deitz" has many meanings, fucking shit is one as is "he's done"

Posted by: The Great Satan™ at March 06, 2009 10:06 PM (8zZS3)

229 "Yeshtye menya." (Eat me).

One of my guilty TV pleasures is watching the "cleaned up" version of Rounders whenever it shows on TV. In the final card game, they missed John Malkovich insulting Matt Damon with "Yob tvoyu maht". Twice.

Cracks me up every time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 06, 2009 10:17 PM (MlEgW)

230 Well the faux pas as regards the russian word pales in comparison to her saying in Belgium that the chief of staff say "never waste a good crisis".  In watching it, watching her try to make it alrigh after it rolled off her tongue, nice try to save hillary but we now have a definitive source that the comment was made.

Posted by: silly at March 06, 2009 10:24 PM (zplc6)

231 Since it's a Clinton, I think that there's something Freudian about that red button, but then again, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Posted by: joh at March 06, 2009 10:31 PM (1DPb/)

232 There's simply no material out there for comedy!

Posted by: t-bird at March 06, 2009 10:51 PM (FcR7P)

233 Kolchak, #89:

Yes, "perezagruzka" would work (but only in a computer sense). "Pereustanovleniye" would be more appropriate in most other contexts, FWIW.

Posted by: Stumbo at March 06, 2009 11:03 PM (dPaNC)

234

Hillary sitting in an over-sized chair in these photo ops reminds

me of a pound of butter sitting on a Ritz cracker. God! Bill

knows his women...............

Posted by: grizzly bare at March 06, 2009 11:10 PM (8+zL9)

235 Did President Clinton bust Bush One's balls as bad as Obama is doing to Bush Two throughout the globe to anyone who will listen? I think this may be unprecedented in the modern Presidency.

Posted by: Anti-Harkonnen Freedom Fighter at March 06, 2009 11:30 PM (5r0Tz)

236 Seriously, if Bush admin did this....it would be front page NYT for 3 months.

Posted by: Harun at March 06, 2009 11:31 PM (1220l)

237

Public opinion of Obama will change when, and ONLY when,

the Jewish power brokers decide he is a threat to Israel.  Hillary's

utterances for  a "Palestinian state" are a shot across the bow.

Hell hath no fury like  a Zionist scorned.  If  Saint Obama loses

the power of  of the Jewish lobby, he'll be back in Rev. Wright's

pews looking for "guidance" again.

Posted by: grizzly bare at March 06, 2009 11:45 PM (8+zL9)

238 It takes a village to reset a childish stunt like that.

They should have called it "recess".

Seriously, how arrogant. It's their way of saying "We're not Bush!, We're not Bush!"--as if the Russians give a damn.

The Russians don't care--except inasmuch as they realize you'll be easier to roll than a hobo sleeping off an Aqua Velva buzz.

"reset" is just another way to tell the world's thugs "We mean you no harm."

Posted by: Noel at March 06, 2009 11:48 PM (7FgWm)

239 Oh dear God...now he's going to meet the Queen for tea in April.

He'd better be on his best behavior...I doubt she'll put up with any of his shit.

Posted by: Nice Deb at March 07, 2009 12:04 AM (MHx40)

240

This kind of moronic stunt equals that hack at Homeland Security who tried to fake a press conference when no one showed up, so he has his staff ask him questions he answered and pretended were from the audience of press people. 

HOW FUCKING DUMB CAN YOU GET IN FRONT OF       THE WHOLE WORLD?

Posted by: 7HEAVENS at March 07, 2009 12:07 AM (mCQlB)

241 Clinton was laughing with Lavrov.   Lavrov was laughing at us.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 07, 2009 12:14 AM (fnoZ9)

242 Can you imagine the hell someone paid for this screw up?

Wrath of Hillary!!!

Posted by: Smarter ThanYou at March 07, 2009 12:36 AM (JPKWk)

243 I think the state department must have one of the multiple layers of fact-checkers on loan from MSNBC.

Posted by: neuromancer at March 07, 2009 01:19 AM (GDOa/)

244

President Carter not only announced to a Polish crowd that he wanted to have sex with them (know them he meant, but in the Biblical sense)...

Carter also emphatically announced to a Peruvian audience (if memory serves) "Estoy embarazada" ("I'm pregnant") when he meant to say that he was embarassed.

Obama's already making me nostalgic for the peanut farmer.

(on a separate subject... SCREW OFF to all anti-semites like Grizzly Bare).

Posted by: the Cork at March 07, 2009 01:42 AM (za8iP)

245

Public opinion of Obama will change when, and ONLY when,

the Jewish power brokers decide he is a threat to Israel.  Hillary's

utterances for  a "Palestinian state" are a shot across the bow.

Hell hath no fury like  a Zionist scorned.  If  Saint Obama loses

the power of  of the Jewish lobby, he'll be back in Rev. Wright's

pews looking for "guidance" again.

Posted by: grizzly bare at March 06, 2009 11:45 PM (8+zL9)


I don't get it. You mean they're just now starting to flash on the fact that Obama's anti-Israel?

WTF? And I thought Jews were supposed to be intelligent.

Posted by: Kathy from Kansas at March 07, 2009 02:42 AM (Bi/c5)

246

76 "Better yet, how about sabotage by Obama? After all, it's Hillary who is on the world stage making a complete doofus of herself."

 

Nah, he's too busy making a doofus of himself here at home while trying to simultaneously wreck the world's largest ecconomy AND keep Joey Plugs from doing anything more high profile than cutting ribbons at Piggly Wiggly openings.

Of course, because he's destroying the ecconomy, there won't be many Piggly Wiggly openings in the future to keep The Gaffetastic One under the radar.

Fact finding mission to Guam?

Posted by: SuperCool at March 07, 2009 02:53 AM (a80B1)

247 "240 Oh dear God...now he's going to meet the Queen for tea in April.

He'd better be on his best behavior...I doubt she'll put up with any of his shit.

Posted by: Nice Deb at March 07, 2009 12:04 AM (MHx40)"

Why the Queen, just seems so odd.  And why so many trips on Airforce One?  Did Bush makes this many trips?  I remember the Clintons did a sort of World tour on the taxpayer's dime, but I don't recall that Bush took this many trips.

Posted by: silly at March 07, 2009 03:24 AM (zplc6)

248 212 When you give out gifts to foreign dignitaries should they be something quintessentially American.  The first thing to come to mind is Vermont Maple Syrup.  I'm sure you guys can think of others.

Posted by: silly at March 06, 2009 08:33 PM (zplc6)

Cleveland Steamers and Cincinnati Bowties.

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at March 07, 2009 07:04 AM (8MuSQ)

249 In part 3 of this weeks, Who's In Charge, the Secretary of State orders Jokin' Joe to whip up a special gift for a visiting Russian dignitary.  Hilarity ensues when the douchetoolian fool realizes, too late, that it's been years since Jokin' Joe spoke a coherent sentence, let alone in Russian.

Posted by: RB at March 07, 2009 08:02 AM (ewXBY)

250 They're both wrong. It doesn't mean "reset."

It translates, literally, as "ten-inch jelly dong."

I know. I speak Russian.

Posted by: General Zod at March 07, 2009 08:33 AM (XcsD4)

251

When you give out gifts to foreign dignitaries should they be something quintessentially American.  The first thing to come to mind is Vermont Maple Syrup.  I'm sure you guys can think of others.

Mickey Mouse ears, a Harlem Globetrotters jersey, or a Top Chef apron that says "I'm not your bitch, bitch" on it. The wonderful thing about these is that they can all be personalized with the recipient's name.

Posted by: FireHorse at March 07, 2009 09:11 AM (5KNeJ)

252 Jesus tap-dancing Christ this was stupid.

She could have taken 30 seconds to plug the word into Babelfish and translated it.

But of course she didn't.

This is the equivalent of turning your paper in at school without bothering to run the spell check.

Except, you know, this actually matters.

Posted by: Darrencardinal at March 07, 2009 10:08 AM (FYrxt)

253 We should get buttons and shirts and such made with OVERCHARGE printed on them in a quasi cyrillic font. Tea bags with that on the tag, too.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 07, 2009 12:12 PM (PQY7w)

254 So, this is what you get when pure ideologues are in charge. They're great when they are on the sidelines, armchair quarterbacking, yelling at the opposition administration about how things need to get done.

Then, they're in the Big Chair. They hire people who THINK like them, but have no qualifications. Politicians, all. Not one singe person with actual expertise at accomplishing anything.

This is how Barry can bounce from being Economy Czar to Healthcare Czar to Auto Industry Czar to Foreign Policy Czar. He thinks his opinion is a policy. It's like saying, "I think it should be warm today. Make it so." And then ACTUALLY THINKING IT'LL HAPPEN.

Hubris? Stupidity? I don't know. And at this point, I don't care. I just want them all to go away before they really eff things up.

Posted by: red speck at March 07, 2009 01:00 PM (/vfpn)

255 I'm surprised Hillary did't give him a blow job.

Posted by: Shaitan at March 07, 2009 01:05 PM (65WaW)

256

I clicked on this comment section not expecting much.  I've been laughing my ass off for over an hour now.

So many thread winners, so many.

Posted by: Apachewarrior at March 07, 2009 01:19 PM (zaYfq)

257 I hope, in the above 250+ comments, that someone took note of the button she actually handed him.

This button is an emergency kill button for electrical machinery.  Just think about the imagery that can be derived from that!

I love it when the American people behave like High School children and vote for the popular guy versus the smart guy with experience. Those that voted for him deserve this humiliation.

If I were Russian, I would be laughing my ass off.

Posted by: Captain Crunch at March 07, 2009 05:00 PM (IPOpu)

258 Present for the Queen-PajamaGram, and a year's subscription to Jet magazine.

Posted by: di butler at March 07, 2009 06:43 PM (qPIRP)

259

How do you say "What the Fuck?" in russian?  We're doing prop comedy for foreign dignitaries now - the State Department has been turned into a Gallagher show.  Now that all the world leaders know we have no class and have a penchant for publicity stunts with tacky gifts, I think they should all conspire and see who can give Obama the worst gift.  I'll bet that the Israelis will present him with a pile of rubber dog shit.

Meanwhile, somewhere on ebay right now there is a "Peregruzka" button up for sale.

Posted by: Hutch at March 07, 2009 10:59 PM (TiHgK)

260
Not in cyrillic of course but phonetically close, and YES, I am a 1989 DLI Russian School Graduate. So there. Nyah. "Yeshtye menya." (Eat me).

Sandman.

Posted by: Enter sandman at March 06, 2009 09:35 PM (zxaA2)

1992 grad here and my Russian blows.  Speaking of blowing, wouldn't it be 'yesh' menya?"  After all, one wouldn't use the formally 'you' when inviting someone to blow one. Personally, I'd say 'na khuj' even though I don't have a khuj.

Posted by: baldilocks at March 08, 2009 01:13 AM (pTXC6)

261 "She could have taken 30 seconds to plug the word into Babelfish and translated it."

It's probably what got her in trouble in the first place, because "reset button" on babelfish translates as:
кнопка возврата (recovery button)

Which is kinda stupid. That's what translators or a good russian dictionary is for.

Reset is сброс, as in resetting a computer or a clock.

Posted by: cheshirecat at March 08, 2009 05:27 AM (aRMI6)

262 "How do you say "What the Fuck?" in russian? "

Closest in meaning would be:
Чо за галима такая
Cho za galima takaya

Which means "Fuck a duck!"

Posted by: cheshirecat at March 08, 2009 05:32 AM (aRMI6)

263 "How do you say unicorns and skittles in Russian?"

Единороги и кегля.

""Yeshtye menya." (Eat me)."

I prefer:
кыши говно и ымрий (Eat shit and die)

Posted by: cheshirecat at March 08, 2009 05:42 AM (aRMI6)

264

The fact that "peregruzka" does not mean reset is significant. What? You can’t find a Russian to ask for a translation? The fact that they used Latin characters to make the label, in place of Cyrillic, is either stupid or intentionally arrogant and insulting.

Posted by: Ivan Ivanovich at March 08, 2009 08:31 AM (bSLlq)

265  212 When you give out gifts to foreign dignitaries should they be something quintessentially American.  The first thing to come to mind is Vermont Maple Syrup.  I'm sure you guys can think of others.

Posted by: silly

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Posted by:  Sen. Frank Church

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