I'm no Hillary Clinton: Argentine Front-Runner

Argentina's greatest fame comes from a powerful woman politician, Eva Peron. Now that country has another powerful female political figure. Despite the similarities to Hillary Clinton Fernandez snubs her fellow Senator:

Argentina's first lady and front-runner in the October presidential election rejected on Wednesday comparisons with U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton despite both women's hopes to follow their husbands into office

[...]"Hillary was able to position herself nationally because her husband was president. She didn't have a political life beforehand and that isn't my case," Fernandez de Kirchner said in an interview with CNN en Espanol, referring to her 30-year career in Argentine politics.

Why is it that so few consider the most successful woman political figure in American history a role model?.