Posted on 01/16/2006 3:31:42 PM PST by conservative in nyc
Sounding a little like a preacher, a fired-up Sen. Hillary Clinton lambasted the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled Congress during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, predicting the presidency "will go down in history as one of the worst" and saying the House of Representatives is run like a "plantation" where dissenting voices are squelched.
"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," Clinton, D-N.Y., told the crowd at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem. "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
Speaking to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience, Clinton offered an apology "on behalf of a government that left you behind, that turned its back on you." Her remarks were met with thunderous applause.
"We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence," she said. "I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, reached by telephone, responded to Clinton's remarks by saying, "On a day when Americans are focused on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Hillary Clinton is focused on the legacy of Hillary Clinton."
A spokeswoman for the White House declined to comment and referred questions to the RNC.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, who organized the Monday event, said Clinton's comments were important to her primarily black audience.
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She is a disgusting pig. Absolutely the most unethical female I can remember ever serving in the legislature.
Like a "plantation"!!??
And, this woman thinks she is predifential material!!??
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . . .
He would know something about "Playing plantation."
Geeeeeeeeeeeeshhhh this guy uses his stupid rhetoric in an effort to draw attention away from his record.
He has no class, which is no surprise since he, next to Carter, was the worst POTUS in history.
If Congress is being run like a plantation, then why haven't we issued the majority whips actual bullwhips?
Looks like she and B.J. are playing G.W. with their "good cop, bad cop" scam.
And it appears he's swallowing it. Just like he swallowed the Teddy Loves Expensive Education bill.
oops......lol
Oh, this speech was taped. I saw it on the 6 o'clock news.
OOOoooooooooopppsss...what I get for only reading the "Howler".
Oh well...same logic applies.
Not something the world needs to see. Or hear.
"We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence," she said.
Said the woman with the 900 FBI files who tried to to fire the Travel Office staff to put HER people in there while she was letting her big donors sleep on the 2nd floor of the White House.
"I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."
That spot has already been "taken," beeach.
nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
This from the woman who told people they couldn't give them a tax cut because 'you migh t not spend it the right way.'
Doesn't she know the phrase "winner take all?"
Oh??? Is that how plantations were run? People like John "Kunta Kinte" Murtha and Gerald "Chicken George" Nadler were not allowed to speak?
Mrs. Rodham, you need to watch C-SPAN a little more often. Dissenting voices get to speak every single day.
But then....you know that. The question is, do you think your audience doesn't?
Amazing how she has forgotten the selling of the Lincoln Bedroom, $25,000 teas, etc.
The worst part of it all is, people believe her. Wake up America!
American blacks are being played the fool by the Rat party. The Rat party was started to keep blacks on the plantation as slaves.
Saved to my Hillary file.
Off topic: Did I hear that Specter caved and the vote on Alito will be next week vs. this week?
INA TODAY.com - INTERNATIONAL NEWS ANALYSIS -- TODAY Column by Toby Westerman: "HILLARY CLINTON ATTACKS BUSH, U.S. INTELLIGENCE SERVICES IN OVERSEAS INTERVIEW Urges a 'Globalized and Integrated World'" (June 17, 2003)
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