[lbo-talk] the candidates struggle with Russian

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 27 09:41:38 PST 2008


[from The Note]

"Whatever." -- Hillary Clinton, after stumbling through attempts to pronounce Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's last name.

"Having seen Senator Clinton try and fail, I think he didn't want to try." -- Obama strategist David Axelrod, explaining to the Washington Times why his candidate didn't venture an attempt at pronouncing "Medvedev."



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