Another Clinton gaffe:
  • Hillary Clinton's trip across Africa just got more controversial.

    Clinton caused another firestorm during her trouble-plagued Africa tour last night by drawing comparisons between political corruption in Nigeria and President Bush's contested election win nine years ago in Florida.

    The Secretary of State made the bizarre comparison during a speech to a group of political activists in the Nigerian capitol of Abuja, another stop on her 11-day, seven-country tour of the continent.

    She singled out former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush -- the former president's brother -- with helping the GOP grab the White House from Democrat Al Gore.

    "Our democracy is still evolving. You know we had some problems in some of our presidential elections," she said. "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."


I'm trying to imagine the outcry if Condi Rice or Colin Powell had gone around to other countries and told people that the Clintons were corrupt. Telling other nations our previous leaders were crooks is hardly the way to inspire confidence in our government.