Posted on 02/04/2006 8:16:43 PM PST by Carl/NewsMax
Ex-president Bill Clinton defended his wife Hillary on Friday for claiming last month that the GOP-led Congress was being run like a "plantation," adding that he thought House Democrats were being treated like "sharecroppers."
Asked if he agreed with Mrs. Clinton's comment, the ex-president told WCBS Radio's Peter Maer: "Oh, absolutely I do. And it had no racial overtones."
"It was more about the arbitrary and complete exercise of power and control," he contended."
Clinton cited an unnamed farmer-turned-congressman from East Arkansas who told him he agreed with Hillary as well. "I wouldn't say we were slaves," Clinton quoted the congressman as saying. "We're more like sharecroppers."
The ex-president then added, "Another member of the United States Congress who worked on a plantation as a boy came up and thanked my wife for saying that."
After offering racially tinged anecdotes, Mr. Clinton again insisted that Hillary "absolutely meant nothing racial by it."
"I defend her, I think she did the right thing," he said. "And I think that's why the Black Caucus defended her."
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Keep talkin', Slick. I hope everybody hears you!!
"House Democrats were being treated like "sharecroppers."
This is unconscionable! Why on earth are these pond scum being treated so well?
Must be that plantation motto.
They are trying to turn the Republicans into the "plantation owners" and they are going to do a democrat party emancipation proclamation.
Triangulation at work.
He is still soooo predictable.
In the midst of major global tensions and Chavez calling Bush 'worse that Hitler', it's good to hear Bill's two cents about Republicans.
What a nice 'brother' Bush has in Bill.
Hey Bill .. Keep diggin you idiot
Why don't you share his name with us you lying sack of sh*t. Why he must be 145 or mebbe 150 years old.
Billy says, "sharecroppers"? Perhaps it was a Freudian slip. He just can't get his mind off "pantsdroppers". And, I might add, he's obviously just sucking up to Hildabeast.
The modern Benedict Arnold spurts some real jiz!!
The black caucus defends her because their groupthink allows democrats to say and do whatever they want and get a free pass, while lambasting anyone perceived as being even right-leaning, for doing the exact same thing.
Shame on them but black leadership is to blame for making these people jump when told, and to act and think the same way, and prevent themselves from accomplishing anything by telling them "the man is holding them down", while waiting around for handouts and a false promise of reparations. THAT, my friends, is slavery.
The Reptile spews some idiocy to a black audience on MLK Day about a "plantation" and there's nothing racial about it.
Yeah. You know what I mean.
Right! So if I tell Jesse or Sharpton to "go back to the plantation" that would have no racial overtones, correct?
What else would we expect him to say??
Sorta!
The "Toons" should be the last to refer to "Croppers".
They along with the Dim party have kept Blacks on the Plantation for decades.
Plantation??
What is it with these people???
Becki
My, Slick must still be dreamin' of plowing the furrows.
WAA WAA WAA WAA WAA WAA WAA WAA WAA
They don't know when to shut up
IMO .. let'em keep talking .. they are doing wonders for our side
Hillary said something dumb and now Bill is providing damage control. I think we'll see this right up to the election in '08.
It's unbelievable that this self-obsessed a-hole raised this issue again after it died down. It seems the blind support the Black Caucus affords the x42s just emboldens them more.
Better than being treated like the carpetbaggers they are.
[big grin] How in the world can Slick Willie say this stuff with a straight face? 35 years ago, in college, when I was learning about sociopaths I had no idea I'd have to watch one for 14 long years.
OK, fine. BC is a sociopath. At least he has an excuse of sorts for the things he says. But Peter Maer and every other sycophantic "journalist" that listens to it with a straight face & never questions it has not that excuse. They are much more disgusting than BC. In his fantasy world he truly believes what he says is real when he says it. The media people that suck it up and regurgitate it are simply whores....with the worst kind of social disease.
Well, they just keep gettin' curiouser and curiouser.
"Arbitary and complete exercise of power and control"? Dammit they've emulating the RATS again! Course Klinton was strictly Dixie Mafia type.
Racial overtones only apply when a Republican is speaking!
Is that Hilary or Nancy? They could be the sisters from hell.
You know...I used to be worried about Hillary...but, like you...I am beginning to think that the more she and Bubba talk...
the better it will be for the GOP, no matter how much pandering they do.
Bill is batting a thousand helping Dems try to win an elections .. LOL!!
Let'em keep talking
Well it would not be too difficult to find out who the Congressman from East Arkansas is, and Biographical info is easy to look up if you want info as to who worked on a Plantation. There are not that many Congress critters from East Arkansas and if you asked them(probably Dems)their facial expression will reveal if they are the person. Slick Willie is probably putting one over on the media again he is a such a congenital liar. He has lost a lot of brain cells since he had the heart problem on top of all the years of drugs,booze, and carousing, and it makes him not as slick as he was. He does not understand how easy it is to google for anything and find out who the hell the liar is immediately.
Remember John "pathological liar" Lovitz on Saturday Night Live?
That's Bill Clinton.
And if it were a republican anonymously quoting "a member of congress who worked on a plantation", the MSM would hire detectives to prove this was a ridiculous lie!
That's right, Bill--make it worse for Hillary instead of better!
Indeed. I sure wish President Bush hadn't said that!
Anyone who believes that those two conversations with the two conveniently unnamed congresspersons actually took place probably believed him when he said he didn't have sex with Monica.
Bill Clinton needs to just go away and STAY away. Maybe he and Jimmy Carter can ride together.
As miserable as his Presidency was for us, his post-Presidency has been quite good, because his narcissism prevents him from helping anybody but his own sorry miserable self!
Plantation??
What is it with these people???
They're 'soiled.'
Funny, they look to me like slave owners, still keeping my fellow Americans of a darker hue on the plantation 140 years after slavery was abolished.
For those of us who remember when Democrats ran the house and how Republicans were treated, this is just too damn funny. Remember Tom Foley gave Maxine Waters 9 million dollars to investigate her claim that the CIA was dumping coke in LA, Waters never produced one real witness and the SACBee had to admit it was had by some con, who was looking for a lighter jail term.
"And I think that's why the Black Caucus defended her."
Wrong. The Black Caucus defended her cus' all great minds thing alike.
Bill is very good at letting others help him
But when it comes to Bill helping others ... he hasn't a clue
Hey, Dems, if you want to be players, try winning some elections!
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