U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) attends a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom in Tel Aviv January 10, 2006. Obama is on a two-day visit to the region. REUTERS/Stringer
Posted on 01/18/2006 10:48:56 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday defended Sen. Hillary Clinton for describing the House of Representatives as a "plantation," saying he felt her choice of words referred to a "consolidation of power" in Washington that squeezes out the voters.
The senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input."
"There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if you are the ordinary voter, you don't have access," Obama said. "... That should be a source of concern for all of us."
First lady Laura Bush, en route home from a visit to West Africa, criticized Clinton.
"It think it's ridiculous — it's a ridiculous comment," Mrs. Bush told reporters when asked about the senator's remark.
Obama, D-Ill., also told ABC's "Good Morning America" that under GOP control in Washington, "what one has seen is the further concentration of power around a very narrow agenda that advantages the most powerful."
Clinton, D-N.Y., who is seeking re-election this year and is a potential presidential candidate in 2008, said during a Martin Luther King Day event in Harlem this week that the House "has been run like a plantation," in that "nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
Obama also said New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was correct to apologize for suggesting that the hurricane-ravaged city would be majority black again because "it's the way God wants it to be."
"If I'm the mayor of New Orleans, I want everybody to come back," said Obama, the Senate's only black member.
Circling the wagons around Hillary!
Another favor owed to Obama.
Why bother posting this? Do you think O'Sama O'Bama would say otherwise?
U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) attends a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom in Tel Aviv January 10, 2006. Obama is on a two-day visit to the region. REUTERS/Stringer
I have no objection with the dems following one another off of a cliff. Happy landings.
Of course he does. He sees a VP spot.
Why bother posting this?
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Exercise. :-)
Don't ya feel better already? ;-)
Oh, if Obama says it's okay. Does he dispense the racism imprimatur?
You'd think members of the party of slavery, secession and Jim Crow would be more careful about throwing around "plantation" references, but then again they have no shame.
If that's the case, then why don't the Dem Representatives just stay home and let the GOP run the government by themselves? Why don't we simply start doing what they are accusing us of?
Wow, and all this time I thought it was the "ordinary voter" who elected all these Republicans!
Could we get a Democrat to denounce it tomorrow? Another to defend her the next day? Could we have this continue for a couple of weeks until the American public thinks every Democrat Senator is a complete idiot? Between the Alito inquisition and now Hillary's unscripted moment, they are proving themselves the greater of two evils.
As I asked on another thread, exactly how is it different now than it was when the Democrats had control?
It's not OUR fault they haven't won a meaningful election since 1992.
Well, Hil, it's because the Democrats have been voted OUT of office no thanks to you and yours. Ever notice that the demise of the Democrat party, the loss of the House, the loss of the Senate and the loss of the White House actually ocurred on YOUR watch of the plantation?
Did the Republicans ever whine like this when the Democrats were the majority?
Hillary, Obama 2008. And will be regular guests on the Oprah Winfrey show. BARF!
All I've been HEARING from the Democrats is ARGUING.
I see why the libs love Obama. He can always come out to excuse their race baiting.
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