Simply The Best

by digby

Condi Rice gave an “exit interview” with the NY Times today and made this observation:

I’ve heard people commenting on how in this election, in far places, people talk about what is a caucus and how does that differ from a primary. I think that links up with the fact that the United States under this president has been more active and more insistent that democracy is not just something for a few. People are watching, and I think they’re trying to learn from democratic experience.

And what they are also learning is that America’s particular democratic system is bizarre. In all the democratization around the globe in the last century not one country has adopted our system of government. You’d think that would be cause for some reflection. I suspect that all this talk overseas about caucuses and primaries basically comes down to …”what the hell?”