Hillary, Nigeria, and the 2000 Election

I don't remember the last time Hillary Clinton was in the news as much as she has been recently.

Her trip to Africa has been quite eventful.

From CNSNews:

Two days after snapping at an African student who asked a question she did not like, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday courted controversy again with a comment appearing to link democracy in the U.S. with what passes for democracy in Nigeria.

Speaking in Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous country, Clinton discussed the importance of free and fair elections, telling an audience of civil society representatives that the electoral system in Nigeria was lacking, and criticizing a “lack of transparency and accountability.”

Then she drew a comparison to the situation in the U.S. where, she said, “our democracy is still evolving.”

“You know, we had all kinds of problems in some of our past elections, as you might remember,” she continued. “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.”

Clinton was speaking in a country which, according to a Transparency International global survey this year, rated its political parties as the sector or institution most affected by corruption by a greater margin than any of the other 66 countries tracked.

I defended Hillary over the confusion with the translator earlier this week.

I'm not willing to do the same in this case.

It is despicable that she would compare the political system in Nigeria with the United States of America.

The democracy watchdog Freedom House has rated Nigeria either “not free” or “partly free” since the 1980s.

(It defines “not free” as a country where basic political rights are absent, and basic civil liberties are widely and systematically denied. A country designated “partly free” is one having limited respect for political rights and civil liberties, frequently suffering from endemic corruption, weak rule of law, and ethnic or religious strife.)

Hillary firmly said that she was not going to be channeling her husband, Bill.

Apparently, she is willing and eager to channel Obama, and slam the U.S. while on foreign soil, just like he's done so many times in his young presidency.

Disgusting.