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Hillary Clinton's Russian Gift Gaffe Lost in Translation

On the heels of unwarranted British apoplexy over President Obama's attempt to culture their Prime Minister up a little, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is taking heat from the right-o-sphere for a gift fiasco of her own. From The College Politico:Our utterly brilliant Secretary of State managed to embarrass our entire nation today by screwing up a simple one word translation: In addition to the red button on a black-and-yellow base, the State Department had written "reset" in English and what it thought was its Russian equivalent. "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think ...

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