Rep. Curt Clawson Mistakes U.s. Government Officials For Foreigners

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Mon, 07/28/2014 - 11:19am

(Foreign Policy) In case you missed it last week, newly installed Florida Rep. Curt Clawson's first major contribution to the national discourse was an extended conversation with two United States government officials appearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in which he was convinced, apparently by names and the skin color of the two witnesses, that they were probably from India. So the good representative of the people, apparently without ever once looking at the witness list or bothering to consider what he might more properly ask those witnesses who his committee had hauled up to brief them about things, took it upon himself to foster better relations with the country he figured they were probably from: Clawson: I am familiar with your country.

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