OK.
I understand that there's a difference of opinion about whether MI and FL should count. But comparing the situation in FL to ... Zimbabwe?
Hillary Clinton compared the plight of Zimbabweans in their recent fraudulent election to the uncounted votes of Michigan and Florida voters saying it is wrong when "people go through the motions of an election only to have them discarded and disregarded."
"We're seeing that right now in Zimbabwe," Clinton explained. "Tragically, an election was held, the president lost, they refused to abide by the will of the people," Clinton told the crowd of senior citizens at a retirement community in south Florida.
Let this one roll over your mind for a bit and then sink in. Politics always leads to spinning, but this is special.
Uh. Robert Mugabe has run a brutal dictatorship for at least the past 20-odd years and been charged with the murder of political opponents. I'm pretty sure he didn't sit down with Tsvangirai and broker an agreement ahead of time not to count the votes, and that Tsvangirai didn't give interviews saying he wouldn't campaign.
As a technical matter, this isn't a violation of Godwin's law, but it's about as close as you can come without going there, so maybe we need a corollary.
And of course, it doesn't stop there. The other day Sen. Clinton made a comparison between counting the votes and freeing the slaves. If there isn't already a corollary to Godwin's law for bogus comparisons to slavery there really ought to be.
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