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Dem Strategist: "At Least People on Plantations Were Doing a Job"
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 01/18/2006 6:42:46 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Trying to put out the fire that Hillary's "plantation" remark started, Dem strategist Elaine Kamarck might unintentionally have added fuel to it in a just-completed Fox News interview.
In fairness, Karmarck, pictured here, an advisor on the Gore 2000 campaign, did not unequivocally defend Hillary's comments, even saying that she personally would not have used the 'p' word.
But in defending the thrust of Clinton's remarks, Kamarck stuck her foot in it. She said "plantations were terrible places where people were forced to do various jobs. But at least they were doing a job." She then went on to accuse Congress of not doing its job.
Can you imagine the MSM outrage if a Republican politician had suggested that at least slaves had a job?
In any case, I'm not sure that's quite the employment policy the Dems want to be promoting.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gopplantation; hillary; plantation
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:43:21 AM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Unbelievably stupid.
Or mayde a return to "traditional" (pre-1860) Democrat values?
:)
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:44:50 AM PST
by
cvq3842
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I would say this is incredible but the Dems have removed that word frm my dictionary.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I didn't know the 'democrats' had come off the plantation did you????
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:46:05 AM PST
by
HarleyLady27
(My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
This person obviously attened the Debra Deshong School for Spokespersons.
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:46:12 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Oh man Hillary is going to be pissed she said this.
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:47:11 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Some job!
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:47:28 AM PST
by
meandog
(FUDU)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I am now hoping for a threefer.
I don't know they will say next, but I hope the next Dem effort at spin control includes a gratuitous reference to fried chicken or watermelon.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
These sound bites just keep on comin'.
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:49:15 AM PST
by
Crawdad
(So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
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To: All
Bwahahaha.... nice spokesperson.
Good luck to her getting her ankle out of her larynx.
To: ClearCase_guy
Just when I think I've heard every stupid thing that a demonRAT can say, they come up with one that tops the last statement. As the General in New Orleans once said, "You are stuck on stupid". How does Karl Rove make them say such things?
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:51:01 AM PST
by
USS Alaska
(Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
To: ClearCase_guy
"I am now hoping for a threefer."
Well, we haven't heard from Dr. Demento Dean yet! He's always good for a crazy sound-bite! (or yell or screech or something!)
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:51:39 AM PST
by
Polyxene
(For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
To: Crawdad
The Dems are still running a de facto Plantation System in the inner cities.
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:51:49 AM PST
by
Wristpin
("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
is she saying that slavery is fine as long as the slave is productive?
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:53:45 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
To: mewzilla
Or the Pat Robertson School of Media Relations.
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:54:26 AM PST
by
Arm_Bears
(You are the New Day.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
OK, I hate to sound like too big a contrarian here...but...there were plantations in the south where black folk were treated quite well.
I know, I know, slavery was evil, and always will be, just like murder and rape. I am a merely trying to counterpoint the young lady's comments that all plantations were awful, terrible places. Many were not.
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:55:31 AM PST
by
RexBeach
("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I just saw a tiny piece of MSNBC where both Imus and Chris Matthews were making fun of algore. They were right (for once) algore made a fool out of himself again. He seems to come up out of his hole about once a year and scream and yell and then disappear.
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:55:33 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: cvq3842
Oh, so believably stupid. It's what they do!
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posted on
01/18/2006 6:55:50 AM PST
by
75thOVI
("Do not dare not to dare." Aslan)
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