Friday, January 23, 2009

Hillary's State Department

I just caught this in today's recap of today's State Department briefing:
MR. WOOD: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the briefing. If you like, I’d run down – I’ll run down some of the Secretary’s calls that she’s had over the last couple of days. Okay, let me start. Well, first we’ll start in the Middle East. She’s spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Olmert, Israeli Foreign Minister Livni, Israeli Defense Minister Barak, Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, the Jordanian King Abdullah, Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad, and Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faysal.

We’ll go over to Europe. She’s spoken with UK Foreign Secretary Miliband, French Foreign Minister Kouchner, German Foreign Minister Steinmeier, Czech Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg – Czechoslovakia holds the EU presidency, as I think most of you know.

QUESTION: Except that, I’m sorry, Czechoslovakia hasn’t existed for a while.

MR. WOOD: Did I say – excuse me, the Czech Republic. It’s just one of those things.

QUESTION: First day jitters, eh?

MR. WOOD: No, no, no. (Laughter.) You know, that is – that would be a good little story.
Anybody hear about Hillary chatting it up with a country that doesn't exist? Care to guess what the odds would have been if this were McCain't (or still Bush's) administration?