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- - - But in a meeting largely devoid of concrete accomplishments, Clinton's gift became a source of continuing amusement to everyone except her staff, who realized that flubbing a foreign language hardly made their boss, the nation's top diplomat, look good. When a Russian reporter asked her about the mistake, Clinton conceded that Lavrov had "corrected our word choice" and went on to gamely make the best of it. "In a way the word that was on the button turns out also to be true," she argued Though Lavrov had said that word on the button meant overcharge, Clinton suggested that that peregruzka could also be translated as overload. "We are resetting so the minister and I have an overload of work," she said But Lavrov refused to let the matter rest there, bringing it up twice more during the press conference in a way that suggested he wasn't completely unhappy at Clinton's discomfort. "We have reached agreement on how reset should sound in both Russian and English," he announced at one point. "We have no disagreement here." A few minutes later, he referred to the gift again, noting that he and Clinton had pressed the button together-a move that summoned up thoughts not of easing tension but of launching a nuclear strike. "It is a very, very large red button," he said. "I do hope that Russia and the United States and other countries would never ever push any other buttons associated with initiation of destructive hostilities." - - - I'm so glad we now have intelligent people running our foreign policy. For six of the last eight years these idiots lambasted every faux pas Bush made, and ridiculed him mercilessly. Too bad for us, what goes around, comes around. Obama's and Biden's stream of gaffes are totally predictable but wasn't Hitlery! supposed to be the smartest woman on earth? - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
