The Cream of US Foreign Policy "Med, Mejv, whatever..."

[Provolution]

The Cream of US Foreign Policy "Med, Mejv, whatever..."


Hilary Clinton sounds like a teen that has watched one too many MTV Video, Superbowl or one too many sitcoms or rodeos. If she is the most experienced foreign policy lady with statements like "Med, mevj, whatever...", I wonder how the worst candidate would be like. Free us from more political analphabetism, America, and save us from less than brilliant lawyers.

 

[emzie]

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[EnlightenmentHK]

Clinton had trouble saying a clearly difficult name from a foreign language about a guy that noone had fricken heard of a few weeks (or even days) back...and that signals the downfall of American foreign policy how exactly? She clearly understood the situation in Russia and knew who the guy was, even if she did stumble over the name. What's your problem again?

 

[amadeus]

I don't even know who we're talking about. Michael Medved?

 

[m4gill4]

I don't even know who we're talking about. Michael Medved?

His name is Dmitri Medvedev. He is the hand-picked successor of Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency whose "election" to said post is assured through undemocratic means such as voter intimidation/suppression, denial of rights to the opposition etc.

...and it's not hard to pronounce:

MED - VEH - DEV.

Just like it's spelled.

 

[RedRalph]

Clinton had trouble saying a clearly difficult name from a foreign language about a guy that noone had fricken heard of a few weeks (or even days) back...and that signals the downfall of American foreign policy how exactly? She clearly understood the situation in Russia and knew who the guy was, even if she did stumble over the name. What's your problem again?

Same old excuses again... if I can pronounce it, why cant she? If million of people around the world can, why cant she? This is her area after all, if Medvedev appeared on Russian TV saying "Blinton, Clintob, whatever" wouldnt you think "WTH? He really should be able to say that"? Its not even vaguely hard to pronounce incidentally.

 

[EnlightenmentHK]

Medvedev is a legitimate tongue twister. Clinton is not.

 

[BasketCase]

She meant Medihv. Clinton got stuck on this one really hard mission in Warcraft III....

Seriously, though--Bush pronounces it "nucular". Drives me nuts every time he does. Welcome to the club, Hillary.

 

[RedRalph]

Medvedev is a legitimate tongue twister. Clinton is not.

MED-VEH-DEV. Unless you have a speech impediment its extremely easy to say.

 

[Veles]

Lads, it's Dmitriy Anatolyevich Medvedev [DMEE-trij uh-nuh-TOL-yevich meh-DVEH-dev]. It's probably a tough one to pronounce. Dmitriy is a Slavic variation of greek name Demetrios, derived from the name of Demeter, the Earth Mother, or ancient Greek goddess of agriculture. Anatolyevich means his father's name was Anatoly. It's called patronymic, I'm sure you know this. If Bush was Russian, his name would be George Georgievich. And Medvedev literally means "of the Bear". The Russian for bear is Medved'. Either his ancestors were from the place where there were a lot of bears, or one of them was nicknamed "a bear", which was common back in times when Europe was all covered with forests, Celts, Slavs, Germans and Finns. That's etymology, unnecessary probably, but now you know.

The guy is a chairman of Gazprom, and before that he was a head of Administration of the President since Putin took office back in 2000.

 

[RedRalph]

what do you think of him Veles? Seems a bit more liberal than Putin but wont expect any big changes under him...

 

[Yoda Power]

Yes! Let's value politicians on how well they pronounce difficult words. That was a good trend started under the Bush era. Remember nu-kul-ar?

Come on, get your act together...

 

[Provolution]

Well, "legitimate tonguetwister...?", "Unknown Russian Political Crown Prince...?" well if someone got "casual, streetsmarts amnesia", "American Exceptionalism" or "Man of The People and the Football team Syndrome" - they should probably go for a radio jockey position, not the position as worlds most powerful person.

So, vote for whomever you want, Huck-Chuck as President/VP, Michael Jackson, Michael Moore, George Bush III, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger, I will not stop you. But if you guys insist on having key leaders with speech impediments and lack of critical political intelligence, then they should probably join the same country club as President Bush does on his retirement, and not add to the degeneration of global politics and media with their very limited competency. If someone brags about their "competency", they better deliver, or they will not be respected.

 

[Provolution]

Clinton had trouble saying a clearly difficult name from a foreign language about a guy that noone had fricken heard of a few weeks (or even days) back...and that signals the downfall of American foreign policy how exactly? She clearly understood the situation in Russia and knew who the guy was, even if she did stumble over the name. What's your problem again?

Is it spelled "friggin'", "freaking", "fricken" or "freekin'" ? I am just trying to catch up here, with my limited English.

 

[Veles]

what do you think of him Veles? Seems a bit more liberal than Putin but wont expect any big changes under him...

Nothing really. I don't think of him. He's being portrayed as more liberal by the media here. Not in a Western sense, he's not going to legalize gay marriages or anything like that. As I said before, Medvedev and Putin were buddies for a very long time. And Russian policies that were conducted so far is co-authored by Medvedev, who was a head of administration. Political elites do that all over the world. If Clinton gets elected, than it's 20 years that 2 families control the US.

According to what he says during the campaign he'll be focusing on internal issues like social system, healthcare, education etc.

 

[warpus]

And Medvedev literally means "of the Bear". The Russian for bear is Medved'. Either his ancestors were from the place where there were a lot of bears, or one of them was nicknamed "a bear", which was common back in times when Europe was all covered with forests, Celts, Slavs, Germans and Finns.

Or maybe, he's a bear!

 

[Veles]

The Cream of US Foreign Policy "Med, Mejv, whatever..."


Hilary Clinton sounds like a teen that has watched one too many MTV Video, Superbowl or one too many sitcoms or rodeos. If she is the most experienced foreign policy lady with statements like "Med, mevj, whatever...", I wonder how the worst candidate would be like. Free us from more political analphabetism, America, and save us from less than brilliant lawyers.

She said that during the last debates? Can you provide a link, please?

 

[Veles]

Or maybe, he's a bear!

Who knows? He doesn't look like one though.

And what's Polish for bear?

 

[Gelion]

Or maybe, he's a bear!

Disgusting .....

Seriously I miss those days when I was peeing in my pants.... now even the bears get perverted

 

[Provolution]

Here is a link, with video, comment and all, so you see how razor sharp she really is.

http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2008/02/video_clinton_struggles_to_nam.htm