Why is Hillary laughing?
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.
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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Maybe she’s cackling because she sees an opening for 2012…
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I think she is cackling because she does not have a clue what the heck she is doing.
BTW, welcome Doug to MM.
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Goofy is as goofy does…????
She was laughing at the suggestion that she punish those poor, oppressed pirates instead of those evil, rich sailors.
letget, agreed, I wonder does anyone on the demo side have a positive idea period. The cackling is a cover up for incompetence, comparable to lost in the headlights look of a deer.
She had to take a break from her babbling.
She is also happy that these inconsequential pirates can distract everyone from the non-efforts to rein in Norht Korea, Iran, Hamas, and the drug cartels.
Whaaaaaat? “Hahhaha, we worked with Marocco to end piracy all those years ago, hahahahaha.”
Yeah, if I was a hostage this wouldn’t make me feel better.
What could Kerry possibly think to talk about in those hearings? Oh, yea, he was in Viet Nam you know. Injured too. Got lots of medals… With his record, he’d be blaming the ship’s crew before it was over.
Hmmm, Morocco, Tripoli….. to the shores of….. hmmmm… no wonder the idiot was laughing…. she was referencing the butt kicking America gave the Barbary pirates, she couldn’t believe she said what she did….. God, what a doofus
Ha! I’ll pay my taxes when the U.N. issues a non-binding resolution saying to.
‘air bisuit’-HAR!
either that or the dude on the front row was shaking his tallywacker at her.
Obama is negotiating with pirates! Obama is placing a bounty on every US ship in the world.
I think Hillary realizes this, and is relieved that it is not her problem!
There is not foreign government for her to deal with in this matter.
Yet another international failure for Obama.
&%$#%^&&–
‘biscuit’
She was laughing because, even playing second string, she gets more air time than Ole Blue Lips.
Waiting to hear Murtha’s condemnation of the crew for taking back their ship.
It’s always funny when Americans are held hostage. We’re the source of all the world’s ills, so it’s about damn time we get our comeuppance.
Why, Hillary was positively in fits during the Iranian hostage crisis. 400 days straight of cackling is hard work, ya know.
/sarcasm
I am going to guess that Clinton nervously cackled because even she knows that the Defense Depart, specifically the Department of the Navy, should be handling the situation, not the State Department.
She has a decision to make in about 2 years.
If Obama is sucking hard enough, and she can repay her campaign debts, does she make up a principled sounding excuse to resign as SecState so she can challenge the Obamanation in 2012, or does she soldier on, hope he wins, and chooses her as his successor to enjoy the support of ACORN, voter fraud and a cooked census in 2016.
I think she is the wrong skin color to be his chosen successor. And he remembers that she dared criticize him last year during the primaries.
And I think she knows it.
You heard it, she said it was criminal activity. Quick get John Edwards armed with a subpoena along with a restraining order and parachute him in.
There, now that that problem is solved, Next!
Everything to the Democrats is a criminal act. The only problem is who wants to be a victim of crime before our government will send a trial lawyer in to defend us, or at least pursue civil charges on the behalf of our surviving family members.
For a 50% cut of the take.
I think she laughed because she realized she was babbling incoherently.
Good thing the video stopped if I would have seen any more of her ginormous hinder it would have ruined me for life.
God, what a doofus is putting more politely than I would. But I must admit that cackle is an irritation. We should can it and give it to all ships at sea-serve those pirates right.
Hens cackle and when they get to old to lay eggs they get stewed.
She may have been reliving those fond memories of Mogadishu, and wondering how the h#ll she ended up with a possible replay of that?
How about “undocumented crew member”?
Welcome Doug!
Q: What kind of music do Somalian Pirates like?
A: Why that be Arrrrgh and B!
Ooh! I think I just caught a wiff of Morrocan air biscuit!
Looks like it was a little of all 5 reasons especially her wind up stooge who had the crap eating smile on cue.
I’d be laughing to if I wasn’t so ashamed of the actions of this president. My God a row boat with five pirates, out of fuel holding off a US warship is beyound belief! What have we become? I’m waiting for three Mexicans with muskets taking over El Paso. Whats next?
Maybe Hillary thought they were talking about the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
It’s not surprising the Hillbama is at a loss on how to deal with pirates. According to custom, they’re considered to be outside the scope of normal law, and subject to summary execution. I can’t see Hillbama authorizing a US ship to hang them from the yardarm.
Perhaps we should let the Turkish Navy handle the pirates. They still hang men from the yardarm. I’ve seen it.
Because those wacky pirates and their madcap antics are just so zany, wouldn’t you laugh?
Exclusive Photo!!!
The Odopey administration watching breaking video of the Somali Pirates.
Refusing to use certain words because they were used during the Bush administration may be a way of telling the world that you’re not Bush, but how does it help the country? Who benefits from renaming “terrorists” “disaster causing men” other than the terrorists themselves? Softening the name does nothing to diminish the threat from those who have sworn to kill us. It only reduces the incentive to be prepared.
She thought she was on the Jay Leno Show, and she was reacting to the “Pirates of the Caribbean 4″ script being written in real time.
You all read too much into this.
She’s laughing because she’s batcrap insane. Has been for at least 17 years now. Its only going to get worse. Lock her up now before its too late.
Senator Jellyspine: For the committees record could you please state your name?
Somali Pirate: Yarrrr.
Senator Weaknees: I object! Mister Chairman – that’s the same name the last 17 pirates gave us!
Senator Kerry: Mister Yarrrr, could you clarify that for us?
Somali Pirate: Yarrrr.
Senator Gutlesstoad: Mister Chairman! This mans civil rights are clearly being violated!
Somali Pirate: Yarrrr.
Senator Kerry: Any more outbursts like that Mr. Yarrr and I will personally hold a hearing to cut your foreign aid by nearly a full percentage point!
Somali Pirate: Yarrrr.
Senator Kerry: You’re right Mr. Yarrrr, on behalf of the United States I apologize.
Somali Pirate: Yarrrr.
Senator Kerry: …and your parrot too. I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.
Somali Pirate: Yarrrr.
I’m not fat. I’m abdominably challenged………..
Hillary was trying to figure out how to blame the Somali pirates on the Vast Right Wing conspiracy!!
John Kerry in 2004 first proposed returning to a world where terorrism was like any other crime, like prostitution, where a certain amount would occur, and could be handled through the legal system. The way Clinton had done it.
3 years after the September 11th attacks, enough Americans remembered, that while the race was a squeaker, Kerry lost. Oh, excuse me, Jon Cary.
But 7 years was apparently enough time for a majority of Americans to settle back into a comfortable September 10th mindset.
It didn’t help any Obama’s opponent was also an open border supporter, removing one issue Obama should have been bludgeoned on, and believed in the global warming hysteria and proposed his own version of a cap and trade carbon tax, removing another issue.
But even a squishy Republican-Lite like McCain should have won, if a majority of Americans remembered September 11th.
*Hey Doug, please say hello to your cousin Austin for us.
*Inept, inept, inept; How else can you describe this clown cluster that P-BO has assembled for a cabinet and over at the UN.
Piracy is as piracy does, and Hillary doesn’t want to invite too many close comparisons between the Somali pirates and the Obama administration’s hostage taking of the “captains of industry and of Wall Street.” Aren’t they being held hostage, too?
Speaking of pirates and wenches….
For some reason, the TV was on CBS (I think) evening news last night. The host, Couric, was reading over the pirate story and ending with (something like)
…men turned to piracy as there’s nothing else in the economically depressed country
then she read over the POTUS Europe visit opening with something like
… attempting to mend strained relations with Europe
I had not viewed any TV news in a long while prior to this, and I now wonder how anyone could watch it. Heck I’d rather watch that end-of-the-world-gets-closer-and-different every night guy on Fox News.
I just hope to live long enough to see the day when people stop using Forrest Gump sayings. They were dumb the first time.
Before the hearings are over, Kerry will likely earn his fourth Purple Heart.
It’s her growing in populatity clueless/nervous/pissed/beneath-her-royalness/WWOD laugh
The “concern” of Ms. Clinton is telling. We are SO screwed with this administration, and we can thank the Republicans for it. If they were a conservative party that was working AGAINST liberal insanity, then Obama would still be a no-vote in the US Senate, and Hillary would be a footnote in history textbooks.
Nobody in Washington, DC is looking out for the future of this country. The most incompetent people possible are at the helm, and it is looking pretty bleak.
wescam – Look out…Obama will send them money so they don’t trouble us anymore.
I’d rather watch color bars or the indian. At least that came right after the National Anthem & flag.
Hillary is cackling because she thinks it would be hysterical if the American people really had a clue what is going on in the O administration.
She’s cackling because even she can’t believe that 52% of Americans (most with no clue which party is in power) elected a bozo that she warned about.
She’s cackling because she suddenly remembered reading that letter #2 posted from James Carville and thinking about just what a bunch of idiots Americans are that they might actually pay to meet with Carville or Billy.
Americans are in danger. Hillary laughs.
Says it all.
Doug Powers, I like you…a lot! LMAO!!
I am really enjoying this thread!! Thanks for the laughs!
Welcome Doug …
With each passing day it becomes increasingly obvious that the “overseas contingency operations” guidelines do not include any “overseas contingency plans” …
Makes me wonder even more whether there are any “domestic contingency plans” for possible “domestic contingency operations” should there ever be another “man caused disaster” on US soil …
Also … I still haven’t figured out what all these “contingencies” are “contingent” upon …
she was laughing because …. hmmm.. nah, there is no good reason…
disconcerting…disconnected… dumbass…
I thought this was a joke, but HuffPo posted about it, so it must be true.
Hillary is laughing because someone just told her the pirate joke.
What do you call a pirate floating around in the ocean?
Chum.
Perhaps a committee can bake a Friendship Cake and take it to the pirates, then sit around a fire singing Kum Bah Yah.
What a mess this administration is creating all over the world.
I agree, the posters here certainly help my disposition these days. It’s fun to read your very humorous comments when all else seems so bleak. It’s become the only therapy that I can afford.
Well, dig in!
She saw the Chia Obama pet.
I’m willing to take anything about the Clinton’s to the gutter.
New born babies smile when they have gas…therefore over the “hill” Hillary cackles when she has a “bullet in the chamber”!
PAH-DOOONK_DOONK_DOONK_Tizzzzzzh. Badonk.
Thank you very much! I am here all week. Try the veal. Really!
G’nite Peoria!!!!!
Bear1909 out
The Captain is from Howard “Upper East Side” Dean’s “home” state of Vermont.
Wonder if the DNC will debrief (is that worse than a wedgie?) the Captain to find out about how “America” can better understand the grievances of the “pirates”?
Will Bernie Sanderista invite the brave Captain to inspire “new lejuh-slayshun” (have you ever heard Bernie from Brooklyn extol the virtues of that process sounding like he was eating a ham sandwich? puke-o)?
Will Patrick “Pork Man” Leahy write new legislation to set up a “Piracy Visitor Center” in Vermont where they can serve organic sandwiches and inform the Nation about the need to conduct ethical trade so pirates wont get their feelings hurt?
Oy!!!!!!!
Hint: Pave Somalian coast and destroy all ports. Let’s have lil bHo monitor that on tv with his sports watching buddy. Boo ya
Now THAT is a funny joke.
Seriously, and all kidding aside…
She laid an egg.
She’s laughing nervously because she’s afraid that the American citizens are going to figure out that 7 or 8 well placed .50 caliber slugs are a hell of a lot cheaper than having planes & Navy ships/personnel sitting round to play patty cake with a bunch of Somali Terrorists.
If it weren’t for Obama’s Appeasement Politics these guys could have already been in cheap wooden coffins, & the Captain of the ship could be home right now eating a warm meal with his family.
aj–thanks for making me laugh out loud at the still from ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’.
Now all I can think of is Martini trying to bet with half a cigarette.
Because she is unstable?
Hillary is laughing because she doesn’t have to pay any attention to the subject. After all, the Democrats won and they’re going to ram every thing they ever wanted to pass down our throats before we can do anything about it, and she knows it. The laugh is really: “Don’t bother me with questions, just sit down, shut up, and listen to me tell you how it’s going to be”.
It is certainly a sad day for America, but then too many of the stupid voters asked for it and all the rest of us can do is go along for the ride.
And hopefully the casualties of Americans will be held to a minimum.
The effect of the Clintons is evident. She referred to the pirates as criminals. Once again, let the criminal courts take care of international terrorists. This is how that skank and her husband handled the Balkans… criminal law? Sorry, liberals, pirates and terrorists have no right to Habeas Corpus or the Constitution. These scum took a ship and took a Captain hostage . Sink the damn lifeboat and kill the pirates. When I was platoon leader, my men knew that I might get killed. They were to complete the mission.
They won’t kill a terrorist, but will kill an unborn baby. Makes you wonder how such scum get elected into office.
Why waste the wood? Save a couple of trees. There are sharks in those waters.
As far as Hillary laughing because she’s unstable – she’s been unstable for years and doesn’t laugh all the time so that can’t be it.
Laughed when someone reminded her that all pirates don’t have eye patches and parrots on the shoulders. Either that or she was told that Somali pirates aren’t based in Florida.
She always laughs out of nervousness when she doesn’t know how to answer a question, and needs to stretch a few seconds time to conjure one up. Her laughs are always fake.
OR, she thinks Americans hijacked by terrorist animals is a big effing joke.
One or the other.
Has obama made ANY kind of forceful statement on this situation yet? Or is he still voting present?
Well, I for one was very pleased to note that they are “deeply concerned”. Not just “concerned”, but deeply concerned. That should solve the problem right away.
She’s cackling because she’s an obnoxious old hen.
These are the same muslim pirates we went to war with a few centuries ago.
Hillary cackles when asked a straight question. She is virtually unable to respond with The Truth.
Why do you think they call it “dope”?
If paying rather than shooting is the norm, won’t it encourage more of the same? Well, not if you’re the cackler I guess.
Maybe she was cackling because her pantsuit tickled?
We all know the esteem in which the Clintons hold our military – at least Hillary apparently recalls that the Moroccan pirates were removed from the scene by U.S. Marines ……………..
Whattaputz!
Semper Fi’
DM
Semper Fi DM no O’Bannons about I suppose.
Bottom line: That idiot woman needs to be told that this situation is not funny.
We need a Democrat to deal with these pirates: Thomas Jefferson
And on the lighthearted side:
When I hear Hillary laugh, I expect to hear “I’ll get you my pretty… and your little dog too.”
Besides, why has no one mentioned sending the natural enemy of pirates to deal with them: NINJAS!
She was talking about the Barbary Coast attacks of the 1800s where the entire world was kowtowing to and paying the pirates until we got or guys over there and kicked some pirate behind. She was told to claim that it was the actions of the international community working together. She knew this was BS and she was laughing at the thought that she had to put this out like anyone would believe it.
I am really unclear why the Secretary of State has anything to say about the pirates that took over this ship. It is my understanding that the Navy has historically handled issues of the law of the open sea. I think that translates to get them before they take a ship of ours and then blow them the hell out of the water. It doesn’t translate to a bs session from Hillary.
Ron said:
This answer was close but not quite spot on. Think about it. Who is it that becomes giddy and cheers the loudest when a powerful CEO gets his comeuppance? Isn’t it the Democrats (especially Saul Alinsky disciples like Hillary)?
What is the captain if not the Chief Executive Officer of the ship? Does it really surprise anyone that Hillary became giddy when the thought of poor, third-world pirates speaking truth to power came into her mind?
This pirate incident could have been avoided.
If only ODumbo had included a stop-over to Mogadisu in his world tour and apologized for America’s arrogant attitude to the Somalis.
Since the piracy attempt happened on the international waterway, we have no choice but file our grievances with UN.
That will teach those Somali pirates a lesson!!!!
Special Operations Command has overseas contingency plans designed to solve the Somalian maritime criminal activities. All it would take for them to become overseas contingency operations would be someone with stones in the White House saying, “Go.” Too bad there isn’t someone like that.
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. WE are the civilian national security force. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!
ECS
We have no Jefferson or Decatur today. Otherwise, like the 1800s, we’d go in and clean up the mess. “To the shores of Tripoli”, for those of you who wondered where that line came from. Nowadays, we kowtow to them or figure that if we just “reason” with them and “understand” them, all will be okay.