In January we noted that marketing professionals don't think much of Hillary's "smart power" -- her approach to diplomacy -- saying it is "just plain dumb."
Yesterday, Hillary demonstrated just how dumb.
She gave Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov a gift that "represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is, 'We want to reset our relationship.'"
Apparently, President Obama's Secretary of State doesn't have anyone on staff that knows Russian.
The gift was a red button, which said "Reset" in English and "Peregruzka" in Russian. The problem was, "peregruzka" doesn't mean reset. It means overcharged, or overloaded. According to Fox News, the word implies hostility, rather than peacemaking.
Lavrov called her out on it:
You got it wrong.
Watch the video:
The Associated Press would like Americans to believe that our representatives have no clue what they are doing. Judging from comments on the various message forums Americans are gullibly buying the simplistic explanation that our State department supposedly doesn’t know how to translate the word “reset” into Russian. Nonsense! The Russian word peregruzka appears at the top of the button, spelled in latin letters. If this was meant to be a literal translation, why would the letters be in Latin? The english translation for this word is “overload” and anyone that knows how to type a few letters into an online translation website can easily figrue that much out. An english word appears below the button and that word is “reset”. These words do very much make sense together: when something is overloaded (like a circuit), you reset it.
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Posted by: rebellionbrewery.com | Sunday, March 08, 2009 at 11:52 AM