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Why is Hillary laughing?

By Doug Powers • April 9, 2009 03:02 PM

Hillary Clinton was commenting about the situation concerning the so-called “Somali pirates,” and during her remarks she let loose with a “let’s change the subject” laugh that she hasn’t made since a reporter spotted a cheerleader under Bill’s podium back in ‘93.

Here’s the video.

For those wondering about the reason for Hillary’s sudden cackle, I have five theories:

1) Nervous laughter because she suddenly realized she would be reprimanded for saying “piracy” instead of using a slight variation of the Administration’s preferred term, “Man-caused seafaring disaster.”

2) Desperately trying to suppress the urge to say “ARRRR!.”

3) Caught off guard by being asked about doing nothing about the Somali pirates when she was expecting to be asked about doing nothing about North Korea’s missile launch and Iran’s nuclear program.

4) Giddy because her “the world needs to come together to end the scourge of piracy” remark gave her a book idea: It Takes a Village to Erase a Pirate

And the most likely possibility…

5) The guy standing next to her looks an awful lot like somebody who just baked a Moroccan air biscuit, doesn’t he?

One of the most disconcerting traits of the Obama presidency so far is that whenever something bad happens, the first response of the administration is to very sternly wonder why nobody else is doing anything about it. “Global consensus” is required to attack everything except our paychecks. Now that’s piracy.

Update: John Kerry says this serious “pirate” situation calls for immediate hearings! That should scare ‘em, Senator.

For a preview of those hearings, click here.

(h/t for the vid link to Conservative Xpress)

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#673381

On April 10th, 2009 at 9:04 am, publiuswarmac9999 said:

Another disgrace. Apparently the captain of the Maersk ship was able to briefly escape the pirates by jumping overboard — yet the Navy just stood by and watched while they recaptured him. This demonstrates the problem with the obamanite administration’s appeasement and law enforcement approach to any and all terrorist or now piracy situations.

What should have happened here was an around the clock shoot to kill order – if the Captain appeared to be in imminent danger or he was able to escape, instant action by trained snipers.

This is now a terrible further embarrassment to the USA. We got change all right.
#673404

On April 10th, 2009 at 9:23 am, rplatt said:

Pirates attacking an American flagged ship on the high seas is an act of war by enemies of humanity and Obama and his nitwits want to negotiate . . . disgusting!
#673414

On April 10th, 2009 at 9:37 am, jlhudg23 said:

I wonder if Hil has started wearing Depends yet; surely, at her age, all that laughing causes loss of bladder control.
#673421

On April 10th, 2009 at 9:44 am, jsr said:

Has obama made ANY kind of forceful statement on this situation yet?

Why of course. He is urging all sides to show restraint.
#673450

On April 10th, 2009 at 10:09 am, corona said:

Let’s be sensitive, folks. Referring to undocumented crewmen as pirates is just plain nasty.
#673656

On April 10th, 2009 at 12:40 pm, conservative in europe said:

Graysonret – there were a lot of politicians that wanted to continue Kowtowing to the Barbary Pirates too.. Jefferson had to fight like He!! politically to get funding for the first Barbary war. Luckily, he was Jefferson and not Obama – otherwise, 10% of our national expenditure would still be payoffs to our enemies so they would leave us alone like it was in 1800 – Wait a minute!!! isn’t that what Blue Lips and the Screechy Queen want us to do today?
#674394

On April 11th, 2009 at 2:11 pm, DannoJyd said:

Hillary is laughing because the Democrats evil plan to destroy America is succeeding.

Either that, or she pissed her nappies.