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

Fox News/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

There's no doubt that many casual viewers would have interpreted Kamarck's remark [kind of rhymes!] the way you did. I was just trying to provide the actual context.

[RobbyS]

Pre-1860?What abour pree-1964: the Civil Rights act would not have been passed except with solid Republican support.

[Savage Beast]

"I'm not sure that's quite the employment policy the Dems want to be promoting."

Of course it is. If the American people were foolish enough to let the Democrats have their way, we would all be slaves, and the Democrat politicians would be our masters.

That's exactly what they have in mind.

[camle]

VERY lamely.

[johnny7]

You bet... the unemployment rate on the plantation was... 0.00%.

[conservativebabe]

I appreciate that. Sometimes I don't get things the first time around. It's called 3 little boys and lack of sleep. :)

[governsleastgovernsbest]

For those wishing to know more about Kamarck, here's her bio:

http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Elaine_Kamarck

Turns out she teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School. And she has a Ph.D. from . . . Berkeley!

[RobbyS]

Including Jefferson Davis', where he had a black superintendent. Still, all in all, a plantation was at best like a minimum security prison, with the children born there doomed to the same life.

[reagan_fanatic]

It doesn't matter.

Hillary could have come out and announced her membership in the KKK and that Black Americans lack the intelligence of a tree stump and nothing would have come of it. The MSM would try to bury it before it seen the light of day, and if it did get out, Blacks would still vote overwhelmingly for the dimmocrats regardless of what was said about them.

[rollo tomasi]

Internal polling on blacks supporting the democrats must be slipping if dems have to use this idiotic language.

[RexBeach]

Quite right. But perhaps no worse than life in many northern cities for poor folk and immigrants. Of course, the big difference there is that they had a chance to change their lives for the better.

Many thanks for your note.

[Wil H]

She said "plantations were terrible places where people were forced to do various jobs. But at least they were doing a job."

Same thinking in the Democrat party now as then.

Today the Democrats expect everyone to work, pay the bulk of their money to the Government so they can't get ahead, then the gov't will house you, feed you and tell you what you can or cannot do......

Same basic model of servitude....

[popdonnelly]

If that's Kamarck's understanding of plantations, it's no wonder she's a "Democratic strategist". Now, if a Republican had said this, it would be on the front page of the Times.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

If a Republican had said this, it would be on the front page of the Times.

Exactly. As is, I'm predicting her comment will disappear into the media ether. At least I have attempted to preserve it for posterity!

[pointsal]

This script was approved by "Sheets" Byrd...

[maggief]

Vice President Al Gore (left), Elaine Kamarck, Leon Panetta, and President Clinton.

Kamarck joined the Clinton administration in 1993 and worked directly with Vice President Al Gore to create the National Performance Review, also known as the Reinventing Government Project, which was tasked with reforming, downsizing, and modernizing the federal government. The largest peacetime downsizing project in U.S. history, the Reinventing Government Project reduced the federal work force by 17 percent, saved more than $100 billion, and changed the way of doing business in countless government agencies.

Kamarck also worked on the president's welfare reform task force, and the vice president's Airline Safety and Security Commission. Prior to her work with the Clinton administration, Kamarck founded the Progressive Policy Institute. She joined the Kennedy School faculty in 1997 as director of Visions of Governance for the 21st Century. She took a year's sabbatical to work on the Gore Campaign.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/03.22/06-kamarck.html

[RayChuang88]

That's just great--the Democrats have decided to step even deeper in it, if you know what I mean.

[popdonnelly]

Berkeley grad and Harvard prof? I see the problem, she's just too smart to be able to communicate with the common folks.

[sd-joe]

>> "He seems to come up out of his hole about once a year and scream and yell and then disappear." <<

Maybe he can replace Phil the groundhog, for groundhog day, as his next job.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

yipes . . . just yipes

I'm surprised she didn't use the expression 'you people' as well or something about 'blacks have a natural sense of rhythm, so they are always bound to get jobs.'

I find liberals to be the racist people I know. I don't know what's worse their racism of condescension or the times where they are openly racist.