"I love your country": Rep Clawson Mistakes U.S. Officials For Indian Nationals, Awkwardness Ensues

[kpete]

Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar are Indian-Americans who serve as assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs and assistant secretary and director general of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, respectively.

Clawson, who succeeded former Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.), continued on by heaping praise upon India while addressing Biswal and Kumar, apparently unaware of his confusion.

"I'm familiar with your country; I love your country," the freshman congressman said. "Anything I can do to make the relationship with India better, I'm willing and enthusiastic about doing so."

"Just as your capital is welcome here to produce good-paying jobs in the U.S., I'd like our capital to be welcome there," he added. "I ask cooperation and commitment and priority from your government in so doing. Can I have that?"


Video & More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/curt-clawson-indian-officials_n_5622078.html
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/25/exclusive_freshman_congressman_mistakes_senior_government_officials_for_foreigners

[HooptieWagon]

1. Another Ft Myers/Naples moron.

They've sent a bunch of them to Congress. Outside of The Villages, might be the biggest concentration of teabaggers in the State of Fla.

[Sheepshank]

2. Clearly no one stopped him early in the diatribe

it may have been too delicious to stop. Another "Please proceed....." moment

[Louisiana1976]

3. That's hilarious. But it would have been even funnier if he were addressing Bobby Jindal.

[AlinPA]

4. What a stupid slimy dirty pig. That smirk was sickening. Too bad she didn't say "I am an American,

you idiot". His "Let's see some progress, then" was sickening. Every fucking day, the GOP has someone do this kind of thing.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Well it's good that Clawson loves the U.S. perhaps his legislative policies will follow but

that's probably expecting too much.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Downwinder]

6. Miss filed, should be filed under "Florida man."

[montanacowboy]

7. OMG

I saw this on Rachel tonight and almost had a stroke

My God this country is going down faster than turds in a tube

How STUPID can you be? and this fucking jackass makes what? $176K a year?