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How Many Foreign Ministers Did *You* Speak to on Thanksgiving?

From today's State Department press briefing:

QUESTION: Regarding what you just said, the French newspaper Le Monde reports that the Secretary has called her counterpart Kouchner and asked for France to send 1,500 additional troops to Afghanistan. Do you have any comment on that?

MR. KELLY: She did speak to the French foreign minister. This was on Thanksgiving. In fact, she spoke to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten foreign ministers on Thanksgiving.

Hope she got some rest over the weekend....

COMMENTS (3)

11/30/2009 - 6:55pm EDT | williamyard

Twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten foreign ministers obfuscating, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming...

11/30/2009 - 8:07pm EDT | adaglas

When did Count Von Count get a job with the State Department?

11/30/2009 - 9:16pm EDT | rhubarbs

The transcript left out the part where, immediately after announcing "Ten foreign ministers!" Ms. Kelly fell down the steps, her tray full of troop-commitment pies clattering after her.

Reinhold Niebuhr at TNR

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