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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Hillary Insults US and Nigeria in Another Gaffe

Hillary must be taking lessons from Barack Obama. Either that or her teleprompter broke down during her latest trip to Nigeria.

Hillary spoke about the problems of corruption in Nigeria, which I'm sure Nigerians adored. The problems are probably true, but nonetheless, I'm not sure the idea was to insult them. While she was at it, she also decided to take a shot at the USA, saying:

As you may remember, in 2000 our presidential election came down to one state where the brother of one of the men running for president was governor of the state. So we have our problems too.


The insinuation is 2000 election in the US was rigged. Just think there's something ugly about selling your own country out in a public discourse on foreign soil. Shows a lack of class and is insulting to all Americans. That said, we've kind of gotten used to this garbage over the past seven months. If Hillary is trying to equate the USA with Nigeria, maybe she wouldn't mind staying there a while longer.