Tonus
08-13-2009, 12:21 PM
So, after getting snarky and visibly angry with a college student whom she thought was asking for her husband's opinion, Hillary tells Nigeria (a country struggling with severe corruption in its government) that we know what that's like, since we've had our share of stolen elections. (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8314204&page=1)
Hillary Clinton Compares 2000 Florida Recount to Nigeria's Rigged Elections
NAIROBI - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Nigeria's corruption and electoral problems (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Vote2008/story?id=5963751&page=1) with the 2000 Florida presidential election recount during a town hall meeting today in Abuja, Nigeria.
Answering a question about Nigeria's recent election, Clinton said, "In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for President was the governor of the state. So we have our problems too."
But Clinton praised the 2008 U.S. election as an example of how democracy should work.
"I know a little bit about running elections and I have won some elections, and, I have lost some elections," she said. She pointed to her loss to now-President Obama, and the subsequent joining of his administration, as a way forward for Nigeria's next general election.
"In my country the man that I was running against and spent a lot of time and effort to defeat, asked me to join his government. So there is a way to begin to make this transition that will lead to free and fair elections in 2011," Clinton said.
When Hillary tells people that the US 'has its problems' she's not really referring to rigged elections, she's referring to the fact that a Republican won. Once a Democrat won the Presidency and handed her a consolation prize, the problems were all gone and democracy was alive and well once again.
The irony in this is that by reinforcing the false claims that the 2000 election was stolen, she diminishes any moral authority she might have to lecture the Nigerian government on the issue. Or does she expect the Nigerian government to listen to her "we used to have rigged elections, but not anymore" schtick and say "oh, in that case, your criticism really stings!"
Amateurs, the lot of them. Complete, total amateurs.
Hillary Clinton Compares 2000 Florida Recount to Nigeria's Rigged Elections
NAIROBI - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Nigeria's corruption and electoral problems (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Vote2008/story?id=5963751&page=1) with the 2000 Florida presidential election recount during a town hall meeting today in Abuja, Nigeria.
Answering a question about Nigeria's recent election, Clinton said, "In 2000, our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of the man running for President was the governor of the state. So we have our problems too."
But Clinton praised the 2008 U.S. election as an example of how democracy should work.
"I know a little bit about running elections and I have won some elections, and, I have lost some elections," she said. She pointed to her loss to now-President Obama, and the subsequent joining of his administration, as a way forward for Nigeria's next general election.
"In my country the man that I was running against and spent a lot of time and effort to defeat, asked me to join his government. So there is a way to begin to make this transition that will lead to free and fair elections in 2011," Clinton said.
When Hillary tells people that the US 'has its problems' she's not really referring to rigged elections, she's referring to the fact that a Republican won. Once a Democrat won the Presidency and handed her a consolation prize, the problems were all gone and democracy was alive and well once again.
The irony in this is that by reinforcing the false claims that the 2000 election was stolen, she diminishes any moral authority she might have to lecture the Nigerian government on the issue. Or does she expect the Nigerian government to listen to her "we used to have rigged elections, but not anymore" schtick and say "oh, in that case, your criticism really stings!"
Amateurs, the lot of them. Complete, total amateurs.