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03-07-09, 12:31 PM #1
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's 'reset' goof with Russia
MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian media has been poking fun at US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after she gave her Russian counterpart a "reset" button with an ironic misspelling.
Clinton's gift to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at their meeting in Geneva on Friday evening was meant to underscore the Obama administration's readiness to "to press the reset button" in ties with Moscow.
But instead of the Russian word for "reset" (perezagruzka) it featured a slightly different word meaning "overload" or "overcharged" (peregruzka).
Daily newspaper Kommersant put a prominent picture of the fake red button on its front page and declared: "Sergei Lavrov and Hillary Clinton pushed the wrong button."
A correspondent for NTV television called it a "symbolic mistake," pointing out that US-Russian ties had become overcharged in recent years due to discord over such issues as missile defence and last summer's war in Georgia.
"The friendly US gesture was upturned by a small amusing incident," the news website RBC.ru wrote in an article posted late Friday evening.
"Yet this curious episode did not stop Clinton and Lavrov from pushing the button in front of television cameras."
US Vice-President Joe Biden spoke of pressing the "reset button" on relations between Moscow and Washington during a speech in Germany last month. It has since been repeated in various forms by both US and Russian officials.
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03-07-09, 05:27 PM #2
Over their head....every one of the idiots....over their head!
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I would like my country back. I used to believe that one man could never destroy this country. Not so sure anymore!
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03-07-09, 08:16 PM #3
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Lord. Between this and making herself look inexperienced in Europe this last week, I would suggest she is quietly telling the Chinese that Taiwan is ripe for the picking and we are going back into idiocy stages.
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03-08-09, 11:36 AM #4
Tee Hee! Oopsy! Just small little mis-
"If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." -Gen. George S. Patton
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