Posted on 01/17/2006 10:09:37 AM PST by Cindy_Cin
On Monday, many Americans honored the memory of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. President Bush, speaking at the “Let Freedom Ring” festival at Georgetown University, said that America must recommit itself to working toward Dr. King’s dream. How did Democrats such as Al Gore and Hillary Clinton choose to honor Dr. King? They did so by once again playing the race card and pitting black against white for the sole purpose of political gain.
As reported in the Houston Chronicle, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) said Monday in a speech in Harlem that President Bush was one of the worst presidents in U.S. history and “compared the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation where dissenting voices are squelched.”
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Gotta keeps those black folks on the Dem plantation....only because they want and need their votes -- otherwise they could care less about black America.
What I find astonishing is not their race-baiting speeches, but that the right-wing press always seems stunned when it happens. They are reacting with such surprise. This happens every year on MLK day. Every Single Year.
American Blacks about about as dumb as folks can come. Hillary, Al Gore, their leaders throw them some red meat once a year and they get all puffed up over it. Yet, the next day they are right back where they have been for the last fifty years. The Hispanics, Asian and "other" minoritities are kicking their butts when it come to opportunity, economic progress and political power. The train is leaving the station and these poor folks are not onit and, they don't have a clue as to why. Follow Hillary Clinton and Al Gore and you will still be wandering in the wilderness fifty years from now!!!
Exactly! Where is the comeback, the retort? It would be so easy, since you KNOW what the Left is going to say and do (they never change). The right should immediately respond about the how King changed America and how we can now see that in our daily lives.
I heard Dick Morris say some years back that between the two clintoons, he was the one who was shrewd and smart, knew how to turn a phrase. She was merely a power-hungry follower who often tripped herself up. He said that in no way was she as smart as clintoon was, in the long run.
Nothing has changed. It was one of the few times I think Morris was right.
Interesting talk from the party of Robert Byrd, slavery, The KKK, Jim Crowe, SPYING on Martin Luther King, etc, etc, etc...
There's no need for me to repeat most Freepers' reaction - this was hateful, slanderous race-baiting of the worst kind.
But I have to wonder whether even black liberals would be privately upset by the pandering, condescending tone. To me it sounds like "hey, lookie here! I'm in front of black folks! Why don't I make a cute reference to plantations, since I know all blacks think about is slavery." It just sounds ham-handed, and simplistic. I would be offended by being thought of in such a one-dimensional manner because of my race.
No, I didn't read the whole speech. But trying to shoehorn a slavery reference in seems so DUMB, on top of everything else.
Where has the intelligentsia of the Democratic party gone?They may have not noticed it but they started a loosing streak about a decade ago. The worse it gets for them the worse the dialog. This doesn't offer hope to voters.
I know what you mean. See my post 11.
One chapter is a case study on Clintigula, specifically dealing with how he won re-election in '96. Morris says that after the Gingrich Revolution, he advised Clinton not to oppose the Republican Congress, but to sign every single bill they sent his way. The results were 1) a stronger economy thanks to Republican policies that Clinton could take credit for, and 2) the Republicans not having any issues to run on in '96 because everything they wanted to do had already been done. The second two years of Clinton's first term added up to eight years of Clinton.
The terminology you used is derogatory and, in my view, unacceptable.
I agree...Morris was politically astute and he has to take credit for clintoon getting a second term. But Morris wasn't around to control or fix the decline of that second term. clintoon didn't have anyone with foreign policy know-how in "control", much less himself.
I don't think Morris is right all the time, in fact, I think he's working as a "double agent" in many ways. He claims to have voted for Bush but I believe he burned clintonista bridges and kept his other links to dims. I listen to what he says but don't believe a lot of it.
ROFLMAO!!!
It amuses me greatly to hear guilt-laden white liberals attack their own race while conveniently excluding themselves from the same analysis.
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