Is Hillary Clinton becoming an embarrassment as Secretary of State?
The pictures of Hillary Clinton dancing the night away in Colombia during the Summit of the Americas are now all over Twitter, and were first reported by ABC News:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton kicked back Saturday night, dancing and drinking beer at a local hotspot after a day of summit meetings in Cartagena.
The AFP/Getty got images of the Secretary dancing at Café Havana with her hands up in the air and swigging a local brew with friends.
Clinton and President Obama are spending the weekend in the resort town for the Summit of the Americas, along with the leaders of 33 Latin American countries.
The overwhelmingly liberal US media is treating the story as a bit of fun, with the usually austere Mrs Clinton seen as letting her hair down. But I suspect that a lot of US taxpayers will see it differently – as a senior government official having a jolly time on an official overseas junket at taxpayers’ expense. And this was hardly a display of good judgment at a time when nearly 13 million Americans are unemployed, and US soldiers are laying their lives on the line every day in Afghanistan. In an effortless display of leading from behind, Hillary was partying in Colombia while the Taliban were about to launch a wave of terror attacks in Kabul.
It is hard to imagine Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright or Henry Kissinger “livin’ la vida loca” on the world stage. This was less an example of “smart power” than a boozy nightclub audition for the sixth season of Jersey Shore. Hillary Clinton’s Colombian antics are an embarrassment for a high-level cabinet member on official duty, and have lowered the office of Secretary of State. Not exactly the sort of image the federal government should be projecting at a time of widespread public disillusionment with Washington excesses.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???
Hillary was with a group of twelve people. The group ordered a dozen beers, two shots of whiskey and some water. Hillary was photographed drinking a beer. Apparently she danced a little bit too. Hillary stayed there for about 30 minutes before leaving.
Even Reverend Moore would cut her some slack
One of the commenters to the article put it best:
Niles, I feel horribly for you. All of those years at Yale, all of that solemn scholarly achievement, and for what? To spend your working years in the sewer below the Public Square peddling rancid political non-truths? That has to be depressing. At least it helps one understand why you would be so critical of Hillary Clinton, as she actually has the guts to put herself in the real world to try and accomplish positive change, while you collect your paychecks, toss your absurd brickbats, and lament your own unimportance.
Niles Gardiner
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An embarrassment?? Because she was dancing? Good grief, talk about a sexist double standard! Apparently a woman having a beer and dancing is the exact same thing as toe tapping in the men’s room for prostitutes.
I agree. There’s always holier than thou”a talking mouth” who wants to criticize Clinto or Obama for even the most trivial of trivialities. This is 2012 and we live in a global community. Considering historical U.S. mistakes in Latin America diplomacy, Sec. Clinton’s one beer and fist pump probably has done more to build friendship in ten minutes.
They don’t call it derangement syndrome for nothing. It’s a bipartisan personality disorder.
WTF is up with the left and women anymore? I just read an article where they were blasting an aide to Gov. Scott Walker, who…..in her college days, worked at……..wait for it……wait for it……
Hooters . And Jezebel tried to embarrass this young woman by posting an old pic of her in her Hooters uniform online, and proclaiming that she exhibited an “unnatural sexiness” that is bad for women.
WTF WORLD AM I LIVING IN???!! Hillary is embarrassing because she danced, and some poor lowly governors aide is “unnaturally sexy”? Who let all these goddamned puritans in the door on the left?
http://host.madison.com/ct/blogs/walker-s-hooters-connection-and-other-fun-facts-about-campaign/article_9f172e82-859e-11e1-9032-001a4bcf887a.html
This explains why they did not like the PUMA’s in 2008. We are all unnaturally sexy. Seriously these people are crazy.
I know I’m unnaturally sexy.
Remember when CJ Craig did the “I’m too Sexy” on West Wing? LMAO
The comments on the Hillary article are mostly calling the guy a wanker and telling him to get a life.
To be fair, Jezebel is also getting called out quite a bit in the Hooters article. I left my bait.
considering the load she is carrying in backtrack, I am glad to see her have a few minutes of enjoyment.
I may not agree with her choice, but I would never underestimate the work she does and the load she carries.
LMAO @ that comment! I ♥ AugustWest85!
OT, but the GOP and Romney have some bang-up ad teams this time around. It helps that Obama is such an easy target. This is a powerful ad:
While I think federal staffers shouldn’t treat a Columbia trip like a vacation, having a beer doesn’t really count as wild partying. Hiring prostitutes is also not just blowing off steam.
Maybe campaign headquarters thinks Hillary Clinton drinking a beer and dancing will distract people from the hooker thing?
Holy smokes. When was the last time Clinton took a vacation? So for one night she blows off a little steam, and this is the kind of crapola with which she has to deal? Spare me.
I wonder if this guy writes similar pieces in his descriptions of Obama’s “lavish” family vacations at our expense, which he claims to deserve since he works SO hard. Yeah. Right. On his handicap. Again, spare me.
As others have noted, the sexism and misogyny are staggering…
Found an interesting article re: Buffet. It seems that he bought the particular railroad in 2009 that will be shipping all that oil that Obama refuses to let flow through the Keystone pipeline. Making a tidy profit from no pipeline, that Mr. Buffet will be. Isn’t that just cozy?
http://www.westernjournalism.com/warren-buffett-profits-hugely-from-obama-keystone-decision/
And even worse, Canada has been threatening to sell that oil at a higher price thanks to Obama’s games. We currently are sold Canadian oil at a discounted rate. So it’s a one, two punch on the cost, with Buffet’s transportation costs included.
On a similar front, the sexist twit’s show on HBO, an ex-Canadian Prime Minister, Kim Campbell, stated that the US was on the verge of such low energy costs that manufacturing would be coming back to the US.
A fact that was also touted on Fox Business today by someone else, sorry the name escapes me. So that’s two separate sources stating that these low energy prices would reinvigorate our manufacturing base.
While Obama is doing everything he can to benefit his cronies at the expense of jobs.
Top tweets on Hillary’s night out. This one is typical..
Niles Gardiner is a silly twit who couldn’t read the mood of the American people if it came up and pissed on his leg.
on greta
Hillary’s big night out lasted one half hour.
How dare she take a break or a breath and enjoy herself for a short time
It ain’t like she got really drunk at spring break and flashed her cupcakes to the crowd.
Remember how I’ve been making the case for, I funno, ever, that one of the primary reasons Obama must be stopped in his tracks is because we don’t want his penchant for viewing women as the weakest link to be attacked flourishing in mainstream political discourse? Well, here’s an example why. Cuomo going after a top female Albany reporter, sending his aide with a 35-page dossier to complain to her boss about stupid shit: http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/cuomo-aide-slammed-reporter-in-private-file.
That’s professional stalking in my book.
Cuomo is supposed to be one of the good guys.
Here’s what I am discovering about the good guys on the Left (and I’m not saying he isn’t one).
They have in their heads that they want what is best for the people. And that they know what is best for the people. It’s a very easy step from that, when they feel that their good agenda is threatened, to justify being extremely authoritarian and bullying, because their goals are benign.
And no, I’m not making a true equivalency here, but it’s like the whole Stalin “We had to betray the revolution to save it” thing, justifying the deaths and gulags and purges. It’s very very seductive to think “we want X end result, so it’s okay to betray our principles to get that result, because it will all be good for the people in the end.”
There has been an extremely authoritarian drift to the left in recent years, because they are frustrated that a big chunk of the country continues to refuse to agree with them. There’s a tendency to want to just remove all obstacles by any means. That is very alarming to me.
It never occurs to them that the people on the right want what is best for the country too. They think that everyone who disagrees with them is stupid and/or evil.
That’s true, but she’s not even a righty journalist. She’s pretty mainstream and by all accounts does a good job. She did used to write for The New York Post, but that was three gigs ago. She’s really come up.
That last comment was directed at Myiq. But to your points, WMCB, yes, authoritarian, bully crap, just the words I used in the article going up about it tomorrow. There is no good light to look upon this in. It’s just a terrible thing to do, and harkens back to some very ugly images of NY politics.
It’s the same thing all over again. The NBPP, ACORN, the DNC, obots, all of ‘em thinking “the end justifies the means“. It doesn’t but they believe it does.
Yesterday, while I was driving in my neighborhood, I came to a stop sign and stopped (imagine that!). This all by itself is different from what most drivers do in my neighborhood. There was a couple walking a baby, crossing the street in front of me. When they had reached the center of the street across the street and passed where I would be driving, I started to move forward, closely to give them a chance to complete their walk. They looked at me, stopped walking, and stood with a baby in a stroller so that I couldn’t move forward. Then yelled at me for driving recklessly. Saying “We’ve got your information”.
They put their baby in possible danger and acted in a reckless, passive-aggressive way. For what? I let them cross safely (I thought). They then followed me to the store and began yelling at me in the parking lot. I still don’t know for what reason. To embarrass me? To feel powerful? To prove some kind of a point? I don’t know. The odd thing is that if they had lived in the ‘hood for any length of time they’d have known it was because of me and my work in the neighborhood that we have the speed bumps and stop signs. And I am one of the few drivers who does follow the rules. (Makes me a bore, what can I say?)
I am still flummoxed by the entire event.
To the British, Hillary is only allowed to dance the minuet at state balls.
OT, but a fine example of the Obots getting really touchy. I think they are feeling a lot of heat right now. This is NOT 2008.
Video: Beckel loses his shit on Hannity:
http://www.therightscoop.com/angry-bob-beckel-drops-f-bomb-live-on-hannity/
try again…
Yes! Let her dance!
I have to post this just because of the new name for Axelrod. This the ONLY way I will refer to him henceforth. ROTFLMAO!
that is great. I love Iowa Hawk
agreed.
I figure Hill was dancing because she remembered B0′s reign is almost over.
thanks everyone….great and humorous posts…
He-he, I just made a comment at another blog about this guy and his stupid question and I even might have posted the very same picture, lol. Not to make fun of how people look, but … it is kind of interesting how, many of these CDS-ridden guys actually look pretty much the same. Including the young/er men in Obama’s staff. As if they are of one breed or something.
Clones!
Oh for pete’s sake, a Buzzfeed hit piece on Chelsea Clinton:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/chelsea-clinton-tvs-dork-diva-struggles-at-nb
Not one named source.