Uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh...

[El Supremo]

how in the hell did this Crocker guy get to be such a high diplomat and ambassador?

Don't you think communication skills would be an important prerequisite for his position?

I just can't listen to him anymore.

[whistle]

1. Bush cronyism

[FSogol]

2. Heckava job, Crockie! n/t

[pleah]

3. No wonder he hasn't made any headway with the Iraqis!

The guy can't even spit out a complete sentence in under 5 min.!

:crazy: :silly: :crazy: :silly: :crazy: :silly: :crazy: :silly: :crazy:

[BOSSHOG]

4. Part of the republican plan to get elected

They tell the fools in this country that will vote for them that government does not work, put us (and our appointees) in charge and we will prove it. Incompetence, just another conservative value.

[nashville_brook]

5. he sounds like a maintenance alcoholic

[MzNov]

6. Communication skills in the Bush Administration?

:rofl: :rofl:

[Subdivisions]

7. It's hard to lie eloquently when you're lying on the fly. n/t

[Muttocracy]

8. Can you imagine translating for him?

There's plenty of time to catch up I guess, but how the hell would you be able to save up all the meandering phrases to make a sentence to translate. Who knows how it comes through.

[shaniqua6392]

9. Ambassador Crock-O-Shit.

All he says is "ummmm" and "ahhhhh" a thousand times with a few words sprinkled in between. I can not stand to listen to him.

[mitchum]

10. The same way that the equally articulate bush sr was apponted to that envoy to China thing

[Bucky]

11. Crocker's a career diplmat

via Wiki...

Growing up, Crocker had family members in the U.S. Air Force and in Turkey. He lived in Morocco, Canada and Turkey. Crocker attended University College Dublin and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he received a B.A. in English literature in 1971.

After Persian language training, he was assigned to the American Consulate in Khorramshahr, Iran in 1972. His subsequent assignment was to the newly-established embassy in Doha, Qatar in 1974 as an economic-commercial officer, and in 1976 Crocker returned to Washington, DC for long-term Arabic training. He completed the 20-month program at the Foreign Service Institutes Arabic School in Tunis in June 1978. Crocker was then assigned as chief of the economic-commercial section at the U.S. Interests Section in Baghdad, Iraq. Crocker served in Beirut, Lebanon as chief of the political section from 1981 to 1984. He spent the academic year from 1984 to 1985 at Princeton University under State Department auspices pursuing course work in Near Eastern studies. He served as deputy director of the Office of Israel and Arab-Israeli affairs from 1985 to 1987 and was political counselor at the American Embassy in Cairo from 1987 to 1990. Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Crocker became the Director of the Iraq-Kuwait Task Force.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Crocker "one of our very best foreign service officers". He has received a Presidential Distinguished Service Award in 1994 and the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service in 1997.

In January 2002, he was appointed interim envoy to the new government of Afghanistan, and was confirmed as Ambassador to Pakistan in October 2004.

In September 2004, President Bush conferred on him the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service.

On January 8, 2007, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that the Bush administration would nominate Crocker as the new American Ambassador to Iraq, replacing Zalmay Khalilzad, once the latter's confirmation to the post of Ambassador to the UN was complete.

[El Supremo]

13. Well then, he must have had a stroke or something.

Call a doctor!

[Bucky]

14. Why are you so offended by the sound...?

of him choking on the bullshit? I find it soothing, like a metronome.

[El Supremo]

15. You say he stutters because he's lying? He did look real nervous.

But I don't think so.

Those kind of uhs and ums drive me up a wall. Maybe it's because I was taught not to do it. But it's more like I can't follow what he is saying and want to shake it out of him.

Now people with strange speech like Sen. Jeff Sessions is soothing to me. And East Indians. But stutterers - no.

[DCKit]

12. Can't afford a classy, glib liar on a government salary.

The best own, are running or working for corporations and government contractors for real money.

Who needs the prestige of an ambassadorship when you can be filthy, stinking rich and untouchable in the private sector under a Republicon malAdministration?