Just Another Day On The Clinton Plantation.
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."
And ya know what gets me is that the Dem's playbook for the last hundred or so years has been Karl Marx's.
Marx's propaganda was Hitler's edge, and Bismark's before him.
So how the hell can ANY Jew be a Dumpocrap?
Mass stupidity I guess.
You know I have wonder that for as long as I have read about the Jewish history..and seen what the dems have been up to with the blacks and jews..
Bwah hah hah hah hah!!!
Run, Hillie, run!!
Tax that church for engaging in political activity.
Hildabeast : I am watching. I am recording. I plan to teach. WHAT YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
"LOL!! I would BUY tickets to that!"
Me too. Boortz said he wanted to hear the "Boo Hillary" speech run every morning his alarm clock wakes him up.
Just Another Day On The Clinton Plantation.
It's ONLY illegal when Republicans talk politics in church.
unlike the democRATic Plantation they been running since the 60's... right???
Re#58 Yep. It's called the "Q Factor" in marketing. She has a very low one, thankfully. That's why you won't see these live events on the MSM. Shrill does not sell...
Typical whiney-butt Rats.
This is what happens when you fail to win enough elections to have a majority: the majority gets to use the House parliamentary rules to thwart your stoopid little schemes.
Yeah, this was her lousy lame excuse for why she hasn't presented any important legislation---those meanie Reps wouldn't let her, The Man kept her down, she was too busy saying yessmassar . . .
Puh-leeze. This is an embarrasment to the historical fact of slavery.
You know, I have had the same observation lately: there does seem to be an unusual amount of enthusiasm for the Gore-man lately. And he's certainly been obliging with his half-baked speeches.
Hopefully the Repubs have videos of this to use in campaign commercials.
Another thing to do if you feel like amusing yourself. Take a few minutes and look at DU. It's very interesting. It's not just that they are so wrong about so many things, it's the level of their discourse. Compare the conversations there to the conversations here. We've got our share of posts that are juvenile and silly, but they are in the minority, and most of the time the result of good people momentarily frustrated. The general level of discussion here at FR is actually quite high-brow. Not so there at DU. They really do seem like children on drugs. Their sentence structure, their lack of coherent thinking, their inability to post much more than a few staggered shouts and rages. A homeless guy in the library typing out his manifesto against Campbell Soup seems the voice of reason compared to the nitwits over there at DU. They aren't just wrong. They are deeply stupid, and seriously disturbed.
Clinton plantation ethics
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