Sen. Clinton sure sounds confident in her ability predict the outcome of this election. So confident, in fact, that she's already anticipating the outcome of elections in other countries.
From the Dominion Post:
In what the Labour Party would hope is more ignorance than prophecy, Mrs Clinton described Helen Clark as "former prime minister of New Zealand".
The gaffe came in a chummy interview with American magazine Newsweek, when journalist Karen Breslau asked Mrs Clinton for a joke: "Here's a good one. Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand: her opponents have observed that in the event of a nuclear war, the two things that will emerge from the rubble are the cockroaches and Helen Clark. [Laughs]"
Mrs Clinton also once said her parents named her after Sir Ed Hillary, a nice line till it was pointed out she was born more than five years before he climbed Everest, when he was still a lesser-known beekeeper.
Now, for those of us who live in Aotearoa/New Zealand, we have our own predictions about the outcome of the upcoming election. National may very well take the PM position away from Labour. However, we also know that until that day, Auntie Helen will still be the tried and true face of New Zealand's leadership.
It just goes to show that American politicians just ought to avoid making reference to foreign world leaders at all.