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Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 7:30:32 AM   
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ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what "Mr. Clinton" thought about a Chinese trade deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


"You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" Clinton replied, clearly irked by the thought of being her husband Bill's spokeswoman.

"My husband is not secretary of state, I am," she replied. "If you want my opinion I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband."

The only problem? Apparently the translator made a mistake and the student had wanted to know what President Obama thought of the deal. A State Department official tells ABC News the student went up to Clinton after the event and told her he was misquoted. No immediate word yet how Clinton responded.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/08/lost-in-translation-clinton-says-she-not-bill-is-the-secretary-of-state.html


The video embedded in the article would be entertaining, if this woman weren't our Secretary Of State.




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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 7:47:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		'Clearly irked ?' Didn't look like it to me.

It is very possible that without freedom of the press, the questioner may have actually thought Bill was still pres.

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 7:59:09 AM   
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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 8:02:19 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yea, I saw the live news coverage of her reaction.  She was irked.  *However*, they showed footage of her and the speaker who asked the question talking civilly and friendly after the misunderstanding was cleared up.  I would say she did over react a tad, but was right to clear up any misunderstandings over her thoughts vs her husbands, which is how the translator worded it.

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 8:39:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		That was a no win situation for her. I think we all have been in the situation of reacting poorly to someone because of a screw up in what was being communicated. I would think it would be natural for her to default into I am not a puppet of my husband then to catch a mangled translation.

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 9:08:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Just an observation. There seem to be more than a few democrats that are on edge lately. Maybe their chickens have come home to roost..

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 9:10:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am no big fan of Hillary, but I would have been irked too. Then again, I am a bitch like that.

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 10:00:45 AM   
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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 10:51:16 AM   
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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 11:15:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah either way the Translator was obviously having an issue translating the gentleman.

No matter how you look at it Hillary treated the situation wrong by berating the Person asking the question and not asking for clearification.

Diplomacy it seems is becoming a dying art.

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 12:05:42 PM   
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Well, yeah, I think her nerves are well beyond frazzled.  She obviously thinks that  SHE should be president, and now her husband (that cheating BASTARD) is stealing what little thunder she does have...

Good point about diplomacy on your part. Democrats don't seem to be too good at that - case in point, look at the current health care debate.

AND at our top diplomat, of course. 


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Yeah either way the Translator was obviously having an issue translating the gentleman.

No matter how you look at it Hillary treated the situation wrong by berating the Person asking the question and not asking for clearification.

Diplomacy it seems is becoming a dying art.

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 1:07:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		If you pay attention to facts...  The person who was interpreting for Clinton, is the one who translated the question wrong from the student.  The student asked about what the president thinks and the translator translated that to be former President Clinton, and after her speech Clinton did meet with the student and answered the question the student asked in the first place

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/11/2009 5:52:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		None of which changes the fact that our Secretary of State, you know, the chief diplomat for our country, snapped like that on a simple question.  Very bad form.

I'd say putting someone with her temperment in that job reflects very badly on the judgement of our President.  But then, a lot of his appointments do that.  (The Treasury Secretary who doesn't pay taxes, a Vice-President who can't open his mouth without inserting a foot etc.)

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/12/2009 6:26:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		She appearred clearly irked to me, she was also undiplomatic, shrill, bad tempered and plain old rude. Nothing remarkably new in any of that. I never understood her appointment.

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/12/2009 6:33:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		I would be a little grumpy too. It sounded to me from the translation, that the people were giving Mr. Clinton's opinion more weight than Mrs. Clinton, and she put up with the "cheating bastard" specifically to have this office and make her opinions known to the world. She deserves respect for her title and her knowledge and felt she wasn't getting it. I would have been snarky too.

She is a remarkably intelligent women, and I'm sure, she felt oppressed by the question.

Why is it when a man stands up for himself he is courageous, but when a woman does it she is called a bitch?

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/12/2009 10:14:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Maybe Hillary should give Barbara Boxer a call. She wasn't getting respect, or so she thought , from a General earlier this summer. They could compare notes and tackle this problem together.

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/12/2009 1:53:57 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse

I am no big fan of Hillary, but I would have been irked too. Then again, I am a bitch like that.


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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/12/2009 3:57:26 PM   
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3p9y_OEAdc

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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/12/2009 4:13:30 PM   
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RE: Someone's a little touchy! - 8/12/2009 4:22:38 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lostkitten3
Why is it when a man stands up for himself he is courageous, but when a woman does it she is called a bitch?


I'll take a stab at this one.

I believe it's because that when a man does it, he genuinely needs to stand up for himself. He doesn't simply give a snarky response to someone's innocent question.

That's the problem with so many 'rabid feminists' they perceive anything as a threat to their 'choice' and their 'movement' and it makes some of them really insecure. I mean shit....you ever open a door for a woman only to learn (very loudly) that she's a feminist and doesn't need someone to open her door for her? It would be easier just to say thank you and walk through, don't you think?

As I understand it, it was an error in translation. In later reports that day, they said the translator was 'trying' to ask Obama's opinion, not Bill's. But he made a mistake. Rather than reply in a classy fashion to that mistake, she snapped at the guy in front of everyone.

It would seem to me that both Clinton and Boxer have a problem with their level of security and they are incapable of dealing with perceived (emphasis on the word perceived) threats to that security in private.

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