Apparently the Obama Adminisration thought it would be cute to visually represent a resetting of relations between the United States and Russia. So Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the nation’s Foreign Minister a little red button with text supposed to say “Reset” in Russian. Too bad the new State Department apparently can’t translate for crap.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset button” on U.S.-Russia relations.

She handed a palm-sized box wrapped with a bow. Lavrov opened it and pulled out the gift: a red button on a black base with a Russian word peregruzka printed on top.

“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” Clinton asked.

“You got it wrong,” Lavrov said.

Instead of “reset,” Lavrov said the word on the box meant “overcharge.”

Clinton and Lavrov laughed.

Of course he laughed. He just realized how freaking stupid and juvenile the Obama Administration is. If you’re going to mock the previous administration’s policy towards a country, at least don’t make an absolute ass of yourself in the process.

Exit question: Does the State Department not have someone that speaks Russian? Did they just enter the word “Reset” into Babelfish? Oh no, wait, that translates it into “Recovery”. Congratulations, State Department, you’re further off base than a free online translation service.