abcnews.go.com - 8/13/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
NAIROBI - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared
Nigeria's corruption and electoral problems with the 2000 Florida
presidential election recount during a town hall meeting today in Abuja, Nigeria. Answering a question about Nigeria's recent ...
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Hillary Clinton Compares 2000 Florida Recount to ...
newsbusters.org - 8/13/2009
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newsbusters.org —
Of the three major networks, only CBS has
managed, thus far, to ignore controversial comments from Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton that compared America’s disputed election in 2000 to political corruption of Nigeria. ABC, however, highlighted the August 12 comments on Thursday’s Good Morning ...
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CBS Silent on Clinton Comparing Bush v. Gore to Massive ...
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 8/18/2009
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com —
Why, precisely, Ivy League Democrats think that identifying
with African kleptocratic dictators will help either the people
of Africa or the United States is beyond me, but they seem to. Now, Hillary Clinton (of all people) has diminished Nigeria's ...
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Hillary: Africa's elections are corrupt, like ours!
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Another disgrace: In Nigeria, Hillary hints that 2000 U.S. election was rigged
Patterico's Pontifications —
... not Pres. Obama’s faux insistence that we let go of the politics of the past.
The sad thing is that this story will be heard by few Americans, and will register with even fewer. The silver lining? If the US Secretary of State can bestride the globe this drenched in BDS — almost nine years after the fact — without notice, what are the odds that a few anti-ObamaCare protesters are going to scare anyone today? (hint: Long odds.)
Bonus: See the video at HotAir.
–Karl
IS HILLARY ON SOME funny anti-malaria medicine for her Africa tour? No, really, it’s an excuse….
Instapundit —
IS HILLARY ON SOME funny anti-malaria medicine for her Africa tour? No, really, it’s an excuse.
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New FU, indeed
Knowledge is Power —
... POS!
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.
Like Obama illegally helped his cousin lose an election in Kenya?
So we have our [election-fraud] problems too.�
But Bush won, anyway, jackass.
via Hot Air
“The Axis of Evil-Mongers!”
Cold Fury —
... about the politicized use of force directed against Mr. Gates. ***(Mnemonic, Nigeria) Blithely comparing America to a Third World hell-hole that has never had a free and fair election, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton told Nigerians that “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.” “In fact, speaking of nepotism and corruption, we once had an election in which ...
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CNN Political Ticker 8/12/2009
ABUJA, Nigeria (CNN) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday visited Nigeria, warning it could be a target for al Qaeda.
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