Video: Freudian slip of the day
posted at 5:30 pm on January 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Slog through the interminable platitudes of her prepared remarks or WaPo’s joyless running account of the Q&A and you’ll see that this really was the most interesting thing said all day. Somehow the closing of Guantanamo and what it would mean for repatriating freed detainees — 61 of whom have rejoined the jihad at last count — didn’t figure into her opening statement. But this did:
Many significant problems we face challenge not just the United States, but all nations and peoples. You, Mr. Chairman, were among the first, in a growing chorus from both parties, to recognize that climate change is an unambiguous security threat. At the extreme it threatens our very existence, but well before that point, it could very well incite new wars of an old kind—over basic resources like food, water, and arable land. The world is in need of an urgent, coordinated response to climate change and, as President-Elect Obama has said, America must be a leader in developing and implementing it. We can lead abroad through participation in international efforts like the upcoming UN Copenhagen Climate Conference and a Global Energy Forum. We can lead at home by pursuing an energy policy that reduces our carbon emissions while reducing our dependence on foreign oil and gas—which will benefit the fight against climate change and enhance our economy and security.
The key soundbite was her endorsement of “smart power,” which is Obamaspeak for soft power. (“With smart power, diplomacy will be the vanguard of foreign policy.”) She has Gates’s and Mullen’s full support on that, first and foremost because it’ll ease some pressure on the already overburdened military. Iranians got into the new spirit of things this morning by torching photos of The One, at around the same time Biden was being lectured by Iraq’s Sunni VP about not being a Zionist stooge. Exit question: Can you feel the Change?
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He looks haggard.
Topsecretk9 on January 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM
oops. Freudian slip on my part. I meant “SHE” looks haggard.
Topsecretk9 on January 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Kerry looked bad, too.
Enoxo on January 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM
I’ll bet Hillary really wishes she could play the piano.
BigD on January 13, 2009 at 5:35 PM
Like I said this morning: Soak up the rueful awkwardness of the long-faced Jawn Kerry.
And yes, Hill needs to borrow from his Botox stash.
Michelle on January 13, 2009 at 5:35 PM
The world is in need of an urgent, coordinated response to climate change and, as President-Elect Obama has said, America must be a leader in developing and implementing it.
So America is going to find a way to control the sun? This should be interesting.
Bishop on January 13, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Stop the CHANGE!!! The Earth’s climate must remain exactly what it is right now … or we’ll all die!
What friggin’ loons. These people are so stupid it absolutely boggles the mind.
As to “smart power” and Shrillary … ROFLMAO. She really meant “smarm power”, which the libs excel in.
progressoverpeace on January 13, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Was anyone as rude to her as she was to Gen. Petraeus?
ctmom on January 13, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Lord help me, but I just can not tolerate that nodding. I had never seen “smug nodding” until Shillary’s “Listening Tour”… Now whenever I see it I want to scream at her to hold her head still… Maybe it’s some form of Tourette’s …
darkpixel on January 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM
oops. Freudian slip on my part. I meant “SHE” looks haggard.
Topsecretk9 on January 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM
It actually looks more Haggard than Merle.
And with record cold temperatures (oh all that Global Warming!!Let’s worry about that instead of Terrorism!) and the happy Iranians busily enriching U238, one can only hope that when they drop it, it will be on top of idiots like this and not good Israelis and us normal average Americans.
TexasJew on January 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Whoa, she looks like something the cat dragged in. Lurch always looks bad.
UnEasyRider on January 13, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Kerry tried to be but he couldn’t pull it off. I kept thinking “why the long face John”.
kanda on January 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM
He’s overdue for his next Botox treatment.
She needs to fire her hairdresser.
What more can be said?
pilamaye on January 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM
She will not really satisfy the Code Pink left on foreign policy so I suspect Hillary is throwing the left an environmental bone on global warming. Hopefully cap & trade will get filibustered anyway. What the Smoot Hawley tariff was to the Great Depression, the Cap & Trade proposals will be to this economic downturn.
KW64 on January 13, 2009 at 5:40 PM
We can lead at home by pursuing an energy policy that reduces our carbon emissions while reducing our dependence on foreign oil and gas
Libspeak for “bend over, here it comes.”
Bishop on January 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM
“smart power”, huh?
These geniuses had better back up their “smart power” with smart bombs or we will all be smarting.
kingsjester on January 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM
As the proceedings began, a member of the Republican opposition began his questioning…his voice quivering…”hello madame Secretary” err “Senator Clinton” it is a pleasure…err…We have serious questions to ask you about…” This Republican was only able to get half of his question out before he met the evil stare of Hillary Clinton…her eyes then became as fiery as hell eternal and the Republican Senator soiled himself and gave the remainder of his time back to the chair… Hillary cackled silently to herself…
sabbott on January 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM
She will, simply because a D is after her name. Your fooling yourself if you think policy matters.
lorien1973 on January 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Some of them are stupid. I think more of them are just incredibly arrogant, convinced that they can run our lives better than we can, and feel that it is perfectly acceptable to lie to our faces to get us to agree to their plans.
kc8ukw on January 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM
and God, the Sovereign Controller of the Universe, is meeting the incoming, Global Warming/fear mongering fascist, with an Artic Blast of Cold Air. Nice timing
I hope Washington, D.C. has temps around zer0 degrees on Inauguration day.
jp on January 13, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Smart power = idiot power
jp on January 13, 2009 at 5:44 PM
You know, the day that fat child-molesting husband of hers and Ms. Clinton evacuated the White House (with much silverware), all 19 of the 9/11 terrorists were already in this country, busily sharpening their boxcutters and being blissfully undisturbed by our competent Federal watchdogs.
Oh yes, “smart” is the word for that policy!
TexasJew on January 13, 2009 at 5:44 PM
No question about the arrogance, but name me some of the
smartnon-stupid ones. I haven’t seen them.The left bases their decisions on emotions, not rationality, which places them on the stupid list right from the start.
progressoverpeace on January 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM
yup..they look bad.
becki51758 on January 13, 2009 at 5:47 PM
What in God’s name does “climate change” have to do with SecState?
We are so skroot. Might as well make Osama Obama President-for-Life and let him tear the country apart until he decides to hand over to Cousin Odinga or Bomber Billy Ayers.
MrScribbler on January 13, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I thought we were supposed to welcome “change.”
drjohn on January 13, 2009 at 5:48 PM
gasp! Iranians burning pics of the Messiah? omg
becki51758 on January 13, 2009 at 5:49 PM
How about a coordinated plan to stop tsunamis and earthquakes?
I’m on board!
drjohn on January 13, 2009 at 5:49 PM
We are just soooooooooooooooooooooo…completely screwed, it’s not even funny….
Dale in Atlanta on January 13, 2009 at 5:50 PM
We can lead at home by pursuing an energy policy that reduces our carbon emissions while reducing our dependence on foreign oil and gas
Libspeak for “bend over, here it comes.”
Bishop on January 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Being in the currently beaten-over-the-head oil bidness (as we call here down here), I can only tell you that in less than 6 months all hell is going to break loose pricewise.
Cretins like this only make matters worse by chasing fantasy solutions at taxpayer expense.
The Chinese must be laughing their asses off at us as they monopolize coal and oil reserves while we blather about wind turbines and other worthless inefficient crap.
What idiots we must seem to be!
TexasJew on January 13, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Please, Hillary, please fight the global warming. I don’t care if terrorists blow up the east coast. Just don’t let the temperatures rise above 80 before the pool opens for the season. I’m sweltering over here. Oh the humanity!
Laura in Maryland on January 13, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Republican Senators are sore losers or just plain stupid.
kanda on January 13, 2009 at 5:52 PM
They better stop all this progress or we’re all gonna die.
kirkill on January 13, 2009 at 5:52 PM
If we’ve reduced our carbon footprints and have alternaive energy sources, won’t those not similarly situated hate us for not being dependent? Won’t that be unfair to those who do not have the same? Won’t that incite the flames of hate and result in more radicalization and numbers of Islamic suicide bombers?
drjohn on January 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM
And they get paid high salaries to do nothing. We are screwed.
becki51758 on January 13, 2009 at 5:54 PM
What is the point in her appearing before a committee whoes membership is going to change soon?
drjohn on January 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Thankfully, as Americans, we have the power to singlehandedly stop the climate from changing. Mother Nature may have previously been an irresistible force, a malevolent and violent beast unable to be tamed by even the mightiest hand, but for the first time in history we’ll have something humanity’s never had: Barack Obama’s Smart Power™ – are you following me camera guy?
With Smart Power™ Barack Obama will stop the climate, a force which has helped shape mountains through its never-ceasing fluctuations, from changing. Then He will heal the land, and stop the oceans from rising. All with Smart Power™.
It’s an exciting time to be alive!
apollyonbob on January 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Republican Senators are sore losers or just plain stupid.
Inept azzhats who are now more concerned with keeping their jobs and achieving enough time to office to qualify for the pension plan than with representing those who elected them.
Does this new virtual royalty we have inhabiting Congress WANT another revolution, because it seems to approaching that.
Bishop on January 13, 2009 at 5:57 PM
I don’t know. Why bother to show up? Pelosi has shut down the opposition in the House.
Why not oppose absolutely everything?
drjohn on January 13, 2009 at 5:57 PM
It really scares me that Im looking at Hillary Clinton and wondering what could have been.
Chuck Schick on January 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM
apollyonbob on January 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM
You’re not by chance a Scalzi “Old Man’s War” fan, are you?
Bishop on January 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM
All of the cabinet nomination hearings for GW were like the Watergate hearings and this crap is like a job interview for a Wal-Mart greeter.
WABOS
thomasaur on January 13, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Oh, where’s the love? Poor Barky’s feelings must be stinging to read this!
Welcome to reality, PEBO.
tru2tx on January 13, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Here’s something I don’t get. Obama isn’t President for another 7 days – how he is already making appointments? Or is it just one of those things they kind of ignore for the sake of smooth transitions?
apollyonbob on January 13, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Heard of it, never read it. Outta curiosity, why? XD
apollyonbob on January 13, 2009 at 6:01 PM
if the Dems pursue this line of Governing, wher Global warming is found everywhere. If Americans don’t get sick and tired of it, we are screwed.
jp on January 13, 2009 at 6:02 PM
How many times in the next six months (to begin with) will we be asking.
Can we question their Patriotism now?
Speakup on January 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Yeah, well thankfully the chorus on our side is pretty weak, but John McCain did contribute a false note.
Buy Danish on January 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM
Republican Senators are sore losers or just plain stupid.
While the secretary of state is a president’s most important Cabinet appointment, many senators just couldn’t make it to the confirmation hearing.
I suspect they all received their own personal photocopied FBI report prior to the hearing. Just some Arkansas hardball
a capella on January 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM
She must have seen that show on the History Channel (or the Discovery Channel, perhaps) that ticked off the various ways the world might end. Ranking in first place, ahead of a nuclear war, a comet, super volcano, etc., was global warming.
Disturb the Universe on January 13, 2009 at 6:06 PM
To be fair, there were multiple confirmation hearings going on at the same time, I think one Senator said he had three of them today. Doesn’t excuse their lack of tough questions though.
lowandslow on January 13, 2009 at 6:09 PM
That is too funny nice job!!
kanda on January 13, 2009 at 6:15 PM
My collie says:
CyberCipher on January 13, 2009 at 6:16 PM
A full year after it was obvious to us conservatives that the Surge was working liberals accepted the success of the surge but only when it was no longer rational to deny it.
It has now been obvious for least a year that we have entered a period of global cooling. How long are liberals going to cling to their faith in global warming?
Basilsbest on January 13, 2009 at 6:17 PM
So far….not impressed with Obama’s picks…or Republican vetting there of.
PappaMac on January 13, 2009 at 6:18 PM
How long are liberals going to cling to their faith in global warming?
Basilsbest on January 13, 2009 at 6:17 PM
PappaMac on January 13, 2009 at 6:19 PM
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61 of how many? Regardless. It is a lower percentage than the percentage of liberals who are daft on security.
Basilsbest on January 13, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Problem I have is that this is the most important cabinet post. If they had to miss one confirmation hearing this wasn’t the one to miss. Republican Senators came off like…well like partisan politicians. I guess they have already forgotten we are watching them.
kanda on January 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM
She was brilliant as usual.
Welcome back State Department.
getalife on January 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM
They must have missed the article in Pravda regarding the coming ice age.
kanda on January 13, 2009 at 6:22 PM
we’re going to have to listen to these tools circle jerk each other like that for the next 4 years…..ugh.
wildweasel on January 13, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Heard of it, never read it. Outta curiosity, why? XD
apollyonbob on January 13, 2009 at 6:01 PM
It’s an awesome SciFi tale about old people who are given new young bodies and sent off to fight interstellar wars.
Their new bodies are enhanced for combat and one of the enhancements is instead of blood, they have nanofluid which is called Smart Blood™, and is described in the book in the same manner that you used in your post.
Bishop on January 13, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Smart power? What the hell does that mean? That seemed clever to someone? And why is she going on about global warming? She knows she’s being “vetted” for SOS and not President right?
Oh…maybe smart power is the new energy source…Dems are just so f’ing brilliant that their very thoughts will power the nation
AmericanUnderground on January 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM
61 of how many?
Doesn’t matter, could be 61 of one million released, if someone becomes the victim of one of the 61, that is what matters.
Bishop on January 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Regardless of the percentage it is higher than the percentage of current residents of Gitmo that have returned to their murderous ways.
thomasaur on January 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM
I bet it’s better than that. I think they may have found a way to harness the atom. Maybe even the Sun. Perhaps they’ve discovered oil in Anwar. With those sneaky dems it could be any of those.
kanda on January 13, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Oh…maybe smart power is the new energy source…Dems are just so f’ing brilliant that their very thoughts will power the nation
AmericanUnderground on January 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM
But I thought that cow farts were going to power the nation .. oh, wait..
TexasJew on January 13, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Exactly what I was thinking. Except there’s no real interview. Confirmation hearing…yeah right…acceptance speech is more accurate.
BigWyo on January 13, 2009 at 6:32 PM
What will she do at the foreign dignitaries’ yearly talent show? Model?
Entelechy on January 13, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Maybe that’s it…she meant to say she was going to use fart power
AmericanUnderground on January 13, 2009 at 6:34 PM
OMG…that is it…Hillary is Fart Man!
AmericanUnderground on January 13, 2009 at 6:35 PM
“For you two narcissists there’s no help. Mrs. Heinz and Mr. Clinton, you left the keys to the doggie homes unattended, again” ~ ~ Freud
Entelechy on January 13, 2009 at 6:36 PM
It’s gonna be four loooooooooooooong years!
GarandFan on January 13, 2009 at 6:37 PM
Left out the best part…it was Freudian
“For you two narcissists there’s no help. Mrs. Heinz and Mr. Clinton, you left the keys to the doggie homes unattended, again” ~ ~ Freud
Entelechy on January 13, 2009 at 6:38 PM
We are soooo screwed.
OldEnglish on January 13, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Republicans on the committee abdicated their duties. In love.
Entelechy on January 13, 2009 at 6:41 PM
andrea mitchell just said clintons problems weren’t here MASTERY of foreign policy, but her husbands fundraising.
Just when you think you are used to the media…they do it again.
tomas on January 13, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Dumbass Iraqi. Everybody knows the Stooges were Jewish.
JiangxiDad on January 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM
People are finally waking up to the Gorebal Warming Hoax and now we are blessed with the all-seeing, all-knowing One™ who wants to go hell-bent into “fixing” it.
Hold onto your wallets, what’s left of them.
johnsteele on January 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM
After a few sentences of Lugar’s opening comments I turned it off. It was pathetic. His mention of her “great accomplishments” or some BS like that was just too much for me.
progressoverpeace on January 13, 2009 at 6:45 PM
please wake me up and tell me this all is just a bad dream I am having……
SDarchitect on January 13, 2009 at 6:46 PM
still….laughing…….
thomasaur on January 13, 2009 at 6:50 PM
In the good old days, when nations depleted their treasuries due to war or building palaces, they resorted to selling land for $. It’s how we got Alaska, the Louisiana Purchase, and S. Arizona. Let’s not forget Manhattan too. Why didn’t the Czar, or Louis just print more money to pay for their escapades? Is it possible no one would take their crappy money and wanted gold?
It looks like several states, and the federal government, are essentially bankrupt. Yes,the USA went bankrupt. It needs to sell some assets to raise money. What land will the US govt, or an individual state gov’t have to sell first, when no one is left to take their crappy dollar? I think Schwarzennegger ought to sell CA to the Conservatives. Give them six months to move out. All conservatives move in and start over.
JiangxiDad on January 13, 2009 at 6:51 PM
The thermometer is going lower, more than it went higher before.
Time there was warmth and plenty, but from that cup soon no more.
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few:
Dont lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.
Ship of fools on a cold cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought, when I first might have believed you,
Now I cannot share your delusions, ship of fools.
MB4 on January 13, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Amen to that brother, may God help us all that are still sane!
Liberty or Death on January 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Must have been the dog that drug her in. My standards may not be high but I do have my limits.
FeralCat on January 13, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Hillary:
Greek goddess of evil and misfortune, particularly delusion and confusion. In Obamaos’s account, she is the wife of Bill. She was banished from Washington for causing Bill to delude himself. Bill held her responsible for making a solemn oath regarding the birth of Chelsus, and in his rage he seized Hillary by her hair and whirling her round his head cast her down to the world, swearing that she should never set foot in Washington again. She causes everyone to delude themselves and is said to have heavy ankles because she walks over the heads of men, bringing them harm.
diogenes on January 13, 2009 at 7:04 PM
………… probablly trying to save themselves and their families from the next two years of “The Night of the Long Knives“.
Seven Percent Solution on January 13, 2009 at 7:06 PM
She looks haggard all right, but she also looks like she’s waiting for a shoe to drop. Like for example, all her questionable dealings from the past, her husband’s “charity” donations, and her imaginary sniper fire in Bosnia. But they won’t bring any of that up, she’s DC royalty and deserves the appointment. Yup, we’re screwed.
scalleywag on January 13, 2009 at 7:12 PM
That was real!
progressoverpeace on January 13, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Well, we have two years before the big to-do in Copenhagen. We can hope in next mini ice age will be in full swing by then.
BTW, Dick Lugar is totally on board with this global warming crapola. He is a big supporter of Kyoto light, all that stuff.
I’m an atheist but I’m STILL going to pray for a blizzard in DC next Tuesday.
darwin-t on January 13, 2009 at 7:25 PM
One look at them both and you can tell they’re
fart smellers, I mean smart fellers. No, wait, I had it right the first time.OkieDoc on January 13, 2009 at 7:25 PM
hahaha, I forgot about that clip, that was great. Think of the whoppers she’ll tell people as SOS. She’s not known for accomplishments, she’s known for deceit and corruption. I was really really hoping that Obama chose her for the post knowing that she’d be “shot down” and the Clintons would go away forever. I’ll cry myself to sleep tonight.
scalleywag on January 13, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Is that a fe-mullet?
jbohanon on January 13, 2009 at 7:32 PM
2009 bumper sticker:
STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT
fred5678 on January 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM
I just have one request…if they are serious about stopping “climate change”, can they at least wait until around April/May when it’s nice and warm, but not too hot? I could get behind this if they can promise me an even 80-85 degrees year round, heck I might sell off the cars and truck and just ride the motorcycle full time if they would do that.
BadMojo on January 13, 2009 at 7:35 PM
So now they’re talking truth to “smart power.” Well, it’s about time.
Say what you want about the Democrats, but it’s clear they are going to uphold the sole campaign pledge that they’ve been repeating for the past eight years: “George Bush is stupid.”
logis on January 13, 2009 at 7:52 PM
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