Metaphor alert on this report about President Obama’s pick for the State Department’s security chief:

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But current and former State Department officials told The Cable that confirming Starr could be a mistake and raised a string of fresh allegations against him. Among them: that the man who is supposed to oversee thousands of new security agents has shot himself in the foot. And not just figuratively.
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“Starr literally shot himself in the foot when drawing an unauthorized small caliber weapon out of his ankle holster,” said a current State Department official, referring to an incident in 1981.

“Mishandling of firearms is a big no no in the foreign service,” added a former DS official.

Of course a single mishap, three decades past, shouldn’t disqualify someone from a top security post. But this was hardly the only blemish on Starr’s record, his current and former State Department colleagues say.

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Fraught with symbolism. Too bad for Starr that he didn’t blame it on anger about a movie or he might have been nominated to be national security adviser.

Here’s a re-enactment of how that mishap went down:



http://michellemalkin.com/2013/09/18/per...lf-in-the-foot/

Quote: Eglman wrote in post #1

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“Starr literally shot himself in the foot when drawing an unauthorized small caliber weapon out of his ankle holster,” said a current State Department official, referring to an incident in 1981.

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Anyone noticing that the cream of the crop is abandoning the Regime and they are left putting losers like this up? No one wants to be an Obama Nominee. The bloom is off the rose.