Tag: Robert Gates

Defense Secretary: “Libya is not a vital interest to the U.S.” Hillary: “Shut the hell up.”

Hillary Clinton kneecapped the Defense Secretary Robert Gates when he started going off the reservation and admitting that Libya is not a “vital interest” for the United States.

Sunday was a great day on the network news programs. You had Joe Lieberman proposing that we invade Syria next and Chris Wallace chastising the President for boycotting Fox News, but the highlight of the morning was the moment that Hillary Clinton kneecapped her own Secretary of Defense live on Meet the Press.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates started things by going off the reservation and admitting that Libya is not a “vital interest” for the United States.

You could almost see a thought balloon forming over Hillary’s head that said, “WTF?” She cut Gates off faster than she cut Bill off during the Lewinsky scandal and attemped to justify whatever it is we’re doing in Libya.

Wouldn’t you have loved to be in the limo with those two after the show was over?

H/T: NewsBusters.org

Now US Defense Secretary bows to Azerbaijan’s Minister of Defense

What’s with the Obama administration bowing to foreign leaders? Now we have Defense Secretary Robert Gates bowing to Azerbaijan’s Minister of Defense General-Colonel Safar Abiyev.

What’s with the Obama administration bowing to foreign leaders? Now we have Defense Secretary Robert Gates bowing to Azerbaijan’s Minister of Defense General-Colonel Safar Abiyev.

At least we think it’s the Azerbaijanian Minister of Defense. Based on the uniform, it may well be the doorman at the Waldorf-Astoria.

H/T: Weasel Zippers

John McCain states the obvious: “I didn’t need a secret memo to know Obama has no plan to deal with Iran”

When asked about the memo on Fox News Sunday, McCain snorted and said what everyone is thinking – he didn’t need a secret memo to know something so obvious.

A memo leaked to the New York Times reveals that Defense Secretary Robert Gates says President Obama has no plan for dealing with Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

When asked about the memo on Fox News Sunday, McCain snorted and said what everyone is thinking – he didn’t need a secret memo to know something so obvious.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his wife comment on Michelle Obama’s latest fashion statement

We don’t care what the fashionistas say, Michelle Obama is a walking, talking fashion don’t. Here Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his wife take note of the latest item added to the First Lady’s collection of unfashionable fashions.

We don’t care what the fashionistas say, Michelle Obama is a walking, talking fashion don’t. Here Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his wife take note of the latest item added to the First Lady’s collection of unfashionable fashions.

We can’t verify the quotes, but according to their faces, the conversation went something like this:

Gates: Good lord, Becky, that dress looks like hotel carpet.

Becky Gates: You need to stay in better hotels.

To see other selections from the First Lady’s eclectic fashion collection, see Is Michelle Obama the new Jackie Kennedy?.

H/T: WeaselZippers.net

Defense Secretary Robert Gates thinks the country is headed in the wrong direction

Gates’ reaction to reports that North Korea may launch a missile in the direction of Hawaii? “We’re obviously watching the situation in the north, with respect to missile launches, very closely,” Gates said.

No, not that west. The other west.
No, not that west. The other west.

He’s not talking philosophically nor economically nor politically. He’s actually talking directionally.

Gates’ reaction to reports that North Korea may launch a missile in the direction of Hawaii?

“We’re obviously watching the situation in the north, with respect to missile launches, very closely,” Gates said. “And we do have some concerns, if they were to launch a missile to the west, in the direction of Hawaii.”

And when they’re done with that test, they may just fire one north toward South Korea.

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