A few mild gaffes so far

Posted By Carolyn O'Hara Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 5:32 PM Share

John at UN Dispatch is also live blogging the Hillary hearing and has an excellent blow-by-blow of some of the major themes and mild gaffes thus far. A few standouts:

9:50. "President" Putin of Russia...oops. [Lugar]

10:06. Kerry nominates Chelsea Clinton as "intern for a day" on the committee.

10:24. Also, Sudan is most definitely not on the Human Rights Council. Clinton was referring to the old "Commission," since replaced by the Council, which, notably, has not elected some of the human rights abusers (e.g. Belarus, Sri Lanka) that have applied. Hopefully later Clinton will announce a reversal of Bush's decision not to join the Council and have an active role in shaping it.

10:37. Clinton says we need to aid the billion people in the world living on less than two dollars a day. Yes, except there are actually almost two billion of them. One billion live on less than one dollar a day.

11:23. Relief. Clinton pronounces it "Lugar" not "Lugaarrr" as before. Sec. of State, not Somali pirate in disguise.

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January 13, 2009

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