Posted on 01/17/2006 4:37:44 AM PST by jimbo123
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped a Martin Luther King Day stunner yesterday - comparing GOP rule of the House of Representatives to a "plantation."
Standing alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton, Clinton told a mostly black crowd that "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 am talking about."
The startling comment got muted response from those at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ on W. 116th St., but Republican leaders seized on her remarks as inflammatory and insensitive.
"It is always wrong to play the race card for political gain by using a loaded word like plantation," said Rep. Pete King (R-L.I.). "It is particularly wrong to do so on Martin Luther King Day."
"I am a little shocked that a United States senator would use such unfortunate stereotyping to characterize an entire political party," added Rep. Vito Fossella (R-S.I.). "In this case, I think she owes an apology."
Clinton's plantation remark was part of a fiery partisan speech in which she predicted that the Bush White House "will go down in history as one of the worst" and chided GOP leaders for squelching debate.
She asserted that the House "has been run in away so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument."
Aides to Clinton later defended her "plantation" remark, noting that House GOP leaders have often barred Democrats from even offering amendments to bills.
Although several Democrats did not return calls seeking comment, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens) said "the only card anybody was playing with today was the joker, because as she rightly stated, that's who's in charge of the people's House and that's who's stifling the progress of the last century, progress that led to civil rights."
As for Sharpton, he jokingly suggested that Clinton, who many believe is eying a run for President in 2008, had stolen his material.
"Any time you have a situation where, because of seniority and cloakroom politics, the bosses make the decision - that's tantamount to plantation," Sharpton told reporters.
"I absolutely defend her saying it because I said it all through the '04 elections," added Sharpton, referring to his failed presidential run that year.
Clinton made the plantation remark in response to a question about why national Democrats in general seem so "spineless" on major issues - a problem she blamed on the GOP's hold on the White House and both branches of Congress since 2000.
"So here's what I am suggesting," said Clinton in a not-so-veiled plug for her future. "If you don't like the way things are going now, the Democrats have to be given a chance to get into power."
If she really doesn't like the Senate, she could always quit...
Can't wait until she starts campaigning. Everytime she lets her guard down she shows who she really is, a shrill liberal incapable of leading her Party, nevermind the country.
Neither. Both parties were divided.
According to Mayor Noggin, it is now correct to say she is married to the first "chocolate" president.
LOL!!
<back spasms from laughing>
Ow!
re: Hillary
Must see first
From Gateway Pundit
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/01/hillary-spews-hate-at-al-sharptons-mlk.html
Michelle, of course
http://michellemalkin.com/
From Generation Why?
http://texasrainmaker.blogspot.com/2006/01/dr.html
Coverage
Go to memeorandum to see the roundup of blogs and how they covered it.
http://www.memeorandum.com/
A blunder for Clinton?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/383414p-325490c.html
Peter King: Hillary Clinton Playing 'Cheap Racial Politics'
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/16/215743.shtml
Hillary Clinton AWOL from Body Armor Hearing
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/13/113858.shtml
The Mysterious Hillary Clinton
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_11191.shtml
ABC's Nightline Aids Clinton's Revisionism on NSA Spying
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_11274.shtml
Hollywood Private Eye to the Stars and the Clintons in Hot Water
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_11267.shtml
Clinton slams Bush at King event, says Congress like `plantation'
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--kingday-politics0116jan16,0,5518982.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
Clinton Eligible, Once Again, To Practice Law
http://www.nysun.com/article/25965
Sen. Clinton slams Bush administration
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10889047
CANT GET THIS ONE, MUST BE A FULL SUBSCRIBER
Hopefully someone has it:
Clinton library readies for rush of document requests
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription), AR - 4 hours ago
Beginning Friday, many of former President Clintons 80 million pages of presidential papers and 20 million e-mails become subject to the federal ...
http://www.ardemgaz.com/ShowStoryTemplate.asp?Path=ArDemocrat/2006/01/17&ID=Ar00704&Section=Arkansas
And Yeshiva University gives her an honorary degree.
Yeah, really. Some guy on the Texas board last night was quoting Dickie Morris (he of the toe-slurping predilection) as saying that Bush's political people are telling him now that Hitlery cannot, repeat cannot, be stopped in 2008, her election is a foregone conclusion. Real strong language that.......been searching online for another quote of Morris to check it out. Morris says Midwestern blue-collar women are going to hand the election to Hitlery.
Too bad Condi ruled herself out. Now we'll have to draft her, but she's still not ready. She needs 6-8 years as governor of a major state (i.e. California, her home), before she's ready to run for the White House. Nobody has ever elected a staff guy to the boss's job, not when the boss's job is President of the United States.
Do me a favor, make sure my long post below gets posted on the Tony Snow thread. Got to run my daughter to the neurosurgeon. Thanks e.
Tell me about it... Kansas City transformed "The Reverend" Emmanual Cleaver from being an incredibly corrupt mayor, in an incredibly corrupt city, to the House of Representatives. I can't begin to count the number of political speeches he gave in churches in the KC area!
Mark
YOU BET! No problem!
People forget that Hillary Rodham's shrill hectoring of Senator Edward Brooke,R. Mass., an invited guest at Wellesley's commencement, was her springboard to national notoriety. Senator Brooke is a distinguished, principled man, and he is also black. Had Rodham been a Republican and Senator Brooke a black Democrat we would still be hearing about Hillary's fishwife invective.
That I would not doubt..Yeshiva University - http://www.yu.edu/
The more I see of Hillary (there's a scary thought), the less I'm afraid of her. I hope the Left puts her up in 2008. She has nowhere near the political skills as Bubba. He never would have made such a stupid remark.
Hillary has a certain yuck factor. People are not going to want to have this shrill beast in their living room for 4 years. As Rush says, everytime she speaks she reminds me of an ex-wife.
Because the Bible refers to him as "he", which is not to say that she couldn't be influenced by the Spirit of Antichrist...even Jesus said of his time that many false Christ's have already gone into the world.
My ex is a saint... compared to this sexless, commie-witch.
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