One of the more comical aspects to watching Hillary Clinton say her most significant accomplishment was she “rebuilt the image of the U.S. around the world“, is the abject ridiculous nature of the proclamation. Intelligent folk will remember the 2010 State Dept WikiLeaks controversy which led to Hillary spending the better part of the following year apologizing to every head of State for the belittlement from her staff.
Then again, there’s always THIS little nugget she likes to keep tucked under the rug.
Apparently things haven’t changed much. Today Secretary John Kerry took to twitter to defend his peeps yet again.
Always proud of @statedeptspox; she deals in facts #attacksareabadgeofhonor
— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) June 8, 2014
This stems from Jen Psaki being called out by the international EU community for absurd statements around Ukraine. Despite the New York Times rising to her defense, *cough* “she’s being misinterpreted” *cough*.
[Psaki] has also been criticized for using the phrase “carousel voting” to describe the alleged rigged elections in the east of Ukraine, but later admitted she did not know what the phrase meant. [Carousel voting is a term to describe the practice of bussing voters from polling station to polling station so they can vote multiple times]. Russian state TV has even coined the term “Psaking” to describe someone as stupid and incompetent, according to Buzzfeed. (link)
Doesn’t it just give you a warm and fuzzy feeling to know the visible image of U.S. foreign policy is now:
No-one should ever forget the origin of Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State. The Wikileaks release of emails showed how, under her leadership, the various national representative interests of global partners were reduced to being the butt of jokes, snark, and belittlement.
“I think I will be answering concerns about WikiLeaks for the rest of my life, not just the rest of my tenure as Secretary of State.”