We Came, We Saw, He Died

Hillary Clinton had a good ole time on Thursday [10/20/11] finding out that Libyan dictator Col. Moammar Gaddafi died. In the second of two videos showing her reaction to different stages of reports, in this case the confirmation of Gaddafi’s death, Clinton proclaims “We came, we saw, he died.“ For those who have not recently brushed up on their Roman history, that is a reference to Julius Caesar’s famous line “veni, vidi, vici,“ which means “I came, I saw, I conquered.“ In a rare moment [on CBS state-run news] where the public can see the Secretary of State removed from her official, serious persona, Clinton then laughs heartily. Music: Unknown but it may be from Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits? “The faces of the leaders of ’world democracies’ are so happy, as if they remembered how they hanged stray cats in basements in their childhoods,“ Russian envoy to NATO and the leader of the Congress of Russian Communities, Dmitry Rogozin, wrote in his twitter status on Friday [10/21/11].