Is Hillary an embarrassment as Secretary of State?

A report at the first link below tells of the “Hillary reset button” gaff.

It began when 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.

When Hillary Clinton got involved in the reset button story it turned out to be a joke at her expense.

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).

The “overcharge” Clinton gift gaff sends the wrong message to Russia.

As it that wasn’t enough, the second link below has more Hillary gaffs.

Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows on her first visit to Europe as secretary of state when she mispronounced her EU counterparts' names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe's.

The photo above shows Hillary Clinton with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana.

A veteran politician, Clinton compared the complex European political environment to that of the two-party U.S. system, before adding:

"I have never understood multiparty democracy.

"It is hard enough with two parties to come to any resolution, and I say this very respectfully, because I feel the same way about our own democracy, which has been around a lot longer than European democracy."

The remark provoked much head shaking in the parliament of a bloc that likes to trace back its democratic tradition thousands of years to the days of classical Greece.

And if that wasn’t enough, there is more to come:

One working lunch later with EU leaders, Clinton raised more eyebrows when she referred to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who stood beside her, as "High Representative Solano."

She also dubbed European Commission External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner as "Benito."

Barack Obama takes his teleprompter wherever he goes. Maybe Hillary should to the same.

Link here and here.