Dem Strategist: "At Least People on Plantations Were Doing a Job"

Fox News/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Trying to put out the fire that Hillary's "plantation" remark started, Dem strategist Elaine Kamarck might unintentionally have added fuel to it in a just-completed Fox News interview.

In fairness, Karmarck, pictured here, an advisor on the Gore 2000 campaign, did not unequivocally defend Hillary's comments, even saying that she personally would not have used the 'p' word.

But in defending the thrust of Clinton's remarks, Kamarck stuck her foot in it. She said "plantations were terrible places where people were forced to do various jobs. But at least they were doing a job." She then went on to accuse Congress of not doing its job.

Can you imagine the MSM outrage if a Republican politician had suggested that at least slaves had a job?

In any case, I'm not sure that's quite the employment policy the Dems want to be promoting.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

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[cvq3842]

Unbelievably stupid.

Or mayde a return to "traditional" (pre-1860) Democrat values?

:)

[Personal Responsibility]

I would say this is incredible but the Dems have removed that word frm my dictionary.

[HarleyLady27]

I didn't know the 'democrats' had come off the plantation did you????

[mewzilla]

This person obviously attened the Debra Deshong School for Spokespersons.

[finnman69]

Oh man Hillary is going to be pissed she said this.

[meandog]

Some job!

[ClearCase_guy]

I am now hoping for a threefer.

I don't know they will say next, but I hope the next Dem effort at spin control includes a gratuitous reference to fried chicken or watermelon.

[Crawdad]

These sound bites just keep on comin'.

[Robert Teesdale]

Bwahahaha.... nice spokesperson.

Good luck to her getting her ankle out of her larynx.

[USS Alaska]

Just when I think I've heard every stupid thing that a demonRAT can say, they come up with one that tops the last statement. As the General in New Orleans once said, "You are stuck on stupid". How does Karl Rove make them say such things?

[Polyxene]

"I am now hoping for a threefer."

Well, we haven't heard from Dr. Demento Dean yet! He's always good for a crazy sound-bite! (or yell or screech or something!)

[Wristpin]

The Dems are still running a de facto Plantation System in the inner cities.

[camle]

is she saying that slavery is fine as long as the slave is productive?

[Arm_Bears]

Or the Pat Robertson School of Media Relations.

[RexBeach]

OK, I hate to sound like too big a contrarian here...but...there were plantations in the south where black folk were treated quite well.

I know, I know, slavery was evil, and always will be, just like murder and rape. I am a merely trying to counterpoint the young lady's comments that all plantations were awful, terrible places. Many were not.

[Ditter]

I just saw a tiny piece of MSNBC where both Imus and Chris Matthews were making fun of algore. They were right (for once) algore made a fool out of himself again. He seems to come up out of his hole about once a year and scream and yell and then disappear.

[75thOVI]

Oh, so believably stupid. It's what they do!