I don't know which is worst, the mistake itself or the whole ideal of having the US SOS pushing an Easy Button with the Russian Foreign Minister. Tell me this is a joke.
Clinton gift gaffe: 'Overcharge' GENEVA—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. “We won’t let you do that to us,” she said. Trying to recover, Clinton said the new administration was serious about improving relations with Moscow. “We mean it, and we’re looking forward to it.” Lavrov said he would put the button on his desk and he and Clinton pushed the button together, before sitting down for their meeting. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19719.html If this were Bush or Rice it would be in the headlines. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
