…and that’s why you are not the Sec of State answering questions on behalf of the United States…

blue1 on August 11, 2009 at 10:57 AM

Touché! Doesn’t invalidate my point, though.

Good to see Hillary slam down Mr. Bill.

I hope she apologized to the questioner, however.

We have known for years that Hillary Clinton is a vainglorious, arrogant person, whom no one dares to cross swords with. Now the people of the Congo have seen it for themselves. Her words, her facial expressions, and her body language were all disrespectful.

For a secretary of state to go to another country and talk to its citizens, especially a college student, in this manner is inexcusable.

Hillary Clinton has no business being Secretary of State. She has embarrassed her country with a unique display of how not to be a diplomat. She should make a public apology for her actions. In addition, she should resign or be fired.

gary fouse on August 11, 2009 at 11:42 PM

Absofreakinlutely

Tonight, on Hardball, Chris Matthews, not surprisingly, defended Mrs Clinton’s words as “so American”. Other apologists have said she was tired, probably upset at being upstaged by her husband and that the question was not interpreted correctly.

None of which is an excuse.

Mrs Clinton is the number one diplomat in our country. I can understand if she goes to the Congo and reads the riot act to its leaders over their corruption or about the rapes that are rampant in that country. But to read the riot act to a university student because she thought he wasn’t showing her the proper respect is inexcusable, Chris Matthews might think that her reaction was “so American”, but the problem was she was not in America. She was in the Congo, and she spoke in an arrogant and disrespectful manner to a university student who was asking her an honest question. Had she reacted in this manner in America, it would be one thing. That she did so in another country to a citizen of that country was a painful reminder of the old refrain about “the Ugly American”.

We have known for years that Hillary Clinton is a vainglorious, arrogant person, whom no one dares to cross swords with. Now the people of the Congo have seen it for themselves. Her words, her facial expressions, and her body language were all disrespectful.

For a secretary of state to go to another country and talk to its citizens, especially a college student, in this manner is inexcusable.

Hillary Clinton has no business being Secretary of State. She has embarrassed her country with a unique display of how not to be a diplomat. She should make a public apology for her actions. In addition, she should resign or be fired.

Perhaps you can explain this rudeness, this anger, this pompous posturing. I cannot….

Well you stupid cow, what did you expect after horning in Bill’s presidency? Payback is a bitch isn’t it beeee-atch?

G-man on August 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM

You seem to be deliberately trying to give us here at Hot Air a real bad name. I don’t remember seeing you in other threads, are you a mole? A Lib come to pretend to be conservative, and hoping to prove to the world that conservatives are racist, sexist, homophobes….and all that phony rot?

Hope AP adds you to his “watch” list. We don’t need your type of scum sliming up the threads, for sure. Constructive criticism is one thing, flaming and name calling is unnecessary and out of line.

This same team of thugs, you may have noticed, have marginalized Sarah Palin to the point where a majority of Americans believe she is a clueless bimbo.

Any woman with aspirations for anything had better wise up to the fact that Team Obama is their worst enemy.

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You show those Healthers how to act civilly!

The interpreter mistakenly stated Clinton for Obama, and the interpreter was looking at a Clinton. Hillary was a sharp tongued, unthinking, bureaucrat, and not a diplomat, in her answer.

right2bright on August 11, 2009 at 12:48 PM

But maybe she is a psychic medium. After all, she did tell the audience “I am not going to channel my husband,” which intimates that she could if she wanted to. I see a management job in Hillary’s future with Dionne Warwick and the Psychic Network.