Posted on 01/17/2006 7:59:31 AM PST by rdb3
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006 9:41 a.m. EST Al Sharpton: Hillary Clinton Right about GOP 'Plantation'
Radical firebrand Rev. Al Sharpton is defending Sen. Hillary Clinton after she blasted GOP leaders on Capitol Hill for playing what she called "plantation" politics, with Sharpton saying he's happy to see that the former first lady is adopting his views.
"I absolutely defend her saying it because I said it all through the '04 elections," Sharpton told the New York Daily News on Tuesday.
The undisputed king of New York City racial politics praised Clinton for calling it like she sees it.
"Any time you have a situation where, because of seniority and cloakroom politics, the bosses make the decisions - that's tatamount to [a] plantation," he insisted.
Mrs. Clinton invoked the racially incendiary analogy to blast the GOP at a Martin Luther King Day celebration on Monday, which Sharpton also attended.
"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation," she told an audience at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church.
"And you know what I'm talking about," Clinton added. "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."
The episode isn't the first time the former first lady had attempted to paint Republicans as racist. After then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott resigned from his leadership post in 2002, Mrs. Clinton told reporters:
"If anyone thinks that one person stepping down from a leadership position cleanses the Republican Party of their constant exploitation of race, then I think you're naive."
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,/i> Hillary, it is not nobody's contrary view they are ignoring...it is you and your traitor co-thinkers they are not wasting time on.
Hillary, it is not nobody's contrary view they are ignoring...it is you and your traitor co-thinkers they are not wasting time on.
yup
Aah -- "Blessed are the peacemakers," eh, Al??
It's a shame that we have to take the time to respond to these liars.
The Democratic Party has been the Clintons' Plantation for the past 14 years, and shows no signs of changing.
Once again, aren't churches supposed to be non-political, therefore their non taxable status?
It is hilarious. The NY Daily News article said it received a "muted" response from those in attendance. This tells me some may have been offended with the obvious race baiting and with a painful analogy. To say that the pampered 'rat legislators are suffering as those who suffered on the plantations as slaves doesn't work. I hope this gets some good coverage....
MSNBC "live vote":
Was Clinton's "plantation" comparison too harsh?
Demo-parrots. Coulter is right: one of them picks up a word
or phrase and the rest of them repeat it over-and-over.
"Said Clinton, 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..."
http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_016200030.html
As I recall, Rep. J.C. Watts was excluded from attending meetings of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Incredible that Sharpton would use this terminology.
There he goes again. He is so completely shameless.
hilllereeee, sharpton, jackson, pelosi, reed, kennedeeee, leahy, boxer, feinstein, biden, gore, kerreee, Yawnnnnnnnnnnnn, ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....SO over!!!
She knows how a plantation works and she knows who the slaves are.
"the bosses make the decisions" ????
The guy's a lunatic. Of course "the bosses make the decisions" - that's why they're the bosses.
As for "a plantation" .. the only plantation is what the left has done to the minorities in this country.
President Bush has appointed more minorities in his admin than any other I know of - and if somebody can prove me wrong - please do.
And .. for "worst presidency" - Hillary should just look in the mirror and she'll have her answer.
And if that is a plantation, then her husband initiated under-the-desk pogroms by ejaculating on nice Jewish volunteers. Presidoo everywhere.
William Jefferson "Ummm-That-Tastes-Good" Clinton
Hil-freaking-larious rdb!
It can't be good when the Rev agrees with you.
Can someone tell me what the Reverend Al does for a living? He wears thousand dollar suits, has a lot of bling and travels first class.
What does the Reverend Al do for a living? Place your guesses here.
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