Hillary Clinton Now Destroying Other People's Countries, Too
A quick cross-cultural note before I continue: in Brit-speak "No. 10" is not shorthand for "Eliot Spitzer's brother," as I first thought.
Turns out No. 10 Downing Street is the British version of the White House, where the British version of the president lives or works or messes with interns or bangers and mash or whatever.
And today No. 10 is embroiled in an international scandal, and it's all Hillary Clinton's fault!
A deeply embarrassed [Prime Minister] Gordon Brown today found himself being wrongly lauded by Hillary Clinton for "boycotting" the Beijing Olympics.
To the fury of No. 10, his decision to miss the rituals that will start the 2008 Games was being reported around the world as a snub to China.
Downing Street desperately tried to douse the story by pointing out that it had been saying for months that the Prime Minister would only attend the closing ceremony, where the torch will be symbolically passed from Beijing to London 2012.
See, Hillary has been going around praising Brown for his decision to skip the opening ceremonies, and the media has been all "Oooh, Hillary's pal Gordon is totally giving China the proverbial finger here, just like she wanted him to," and now the British government is trying to explain that really, Brown never intended to go to the ceremonies, but it was just some kind of scheduling issue, not a self-aggrandizing symbolic statement.
An aghast Downing Street desperately put out the message that there was no boycott and no snub...
It suggested that No. 10 had been cack-handed for allowing the confusion.
Okay, I have no idea what that last part means. But I am pretty sure it's still Hillary's fault.
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With as increasing irrelevance as the Olympics are to the everyday lives of people, what is the “value” of a boycott of the game’s opening ceremony anyway? So you miss out on all the children dancing in circles in pretty colors, the ambiguous mascots, the prerecorded neo-classical music, the fireworks, and the endless parade of athletes who are really great at doing something no one cares about. Yeah, I can see how important that stand is to take.
I like the British because so much of their idiom sounds dirty. "cack-handed" makes me giggle like a 10-year-old girl. Our equivalent, "butter-fingered" would never get that reaction from me. Although, if I think about it long enough, it might make me giggle like a 16-year-old boy.
Never mind. Must not go there.
Hillary made Gordon look cack-handed. heehee