Queen's birthday gaffe leaves Hillary Clinton red faced

Telegraph.co.UK ^ | 6/4/2010 | Andrew Hough

[Dinah Lord]

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has been left red faced after mistakenly sending a birthday message to the Queen a week early.

An official statement from the US foreign policy chief paid tribute to the "Queen’s life and legacy,” despite the fact that the Monarch does not celebrate her official birthday until next weekend.

The diplomatic faux pas, sent on behalf of President Barack Obama and the American people on Friday, also celebrated the "special relationship" between the British and US governments.

[Dinah Lord]

Freaking amateurs.

[jakerobins]

Wow...Way to go Dems......Alienate our Allies and embrace our Enemies.

[philly-d-kidder]

what was gift this year a deck of cards to play hearts

[GoCards]

Someone PLEASE send a calendar to the State Dept. for Goodness sake. or at least a good assistant

[jocon307]

Can’t anybody here play this game? Or any part of this game? Has anyone heard of this game?

[Paladin2]

Send her a Nano with Zer0 videos.

[ClearCase_guy]

The inclusion of a thoughtful gift (a roll of duct tape, I believe) should help to smooth things over.

[al baby]

No it was gift certificate to 1800-dentist

[FourPeas]

Time to ‘reset’ our relationship with Great Britain.

[Paladin2]

The smartest woman in the world using "Smart Diplomacy".

Have H! explain it , I can't.

[Onelifetogive]

Queen's birthday gaffe leaves Hillary Clinton red faced

If you hire your staff based primarily on their being "raving left-wing lunitics", you get this. That is why a lot of managers choose to hire "competent" staff.

[Jim from C-Town]

I guess it is better early than late!

[sten]

these are the hippies... that would be SOP

and of course, they are all... soooo supah smaht

personally, if they worked for me... I’d fire each and every one of them

[GnL]

Maybe an iPod update with Zero’s latest speech on the oil spill. What a gaggle of dunces.

[A message]

These morons in our administration are so incompetent they can’t even send birthday cards at the right time and they want to run healthcare, GM, AIG, and everything else.

AAAAARGH.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Does ANYBODY in this friggin administration have a clue what's going on? We are being governed by a bunch of idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hiramknight]

OK...who gives a crap. are you serious????

[TChris]

Freaking amateurs.

Exactly.

There's nothing worse than a rank amateur who won't acknowledge the fact.

[anniegetyourgun]

Public employees....

[bergmeid]

Special relationship? Sure.