Posted on 01/18/2006 8:21:35 PM PST by neverdem
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A potential Republican challenger called Wednesday for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to "do the honorable thing" and take to the Senate floor to apologize for saying the GOP-controlled House of Representatives is "run like a plantation."
The former first lady's claim came Monday during an appearance at a Martin Luther King Day event in New York City and has drawn complaints from several Republicans. Current first lady Laura Bush said Wednesday the remark was "ridiculous."
"Senator Clinton's race baiting by comparing the U.S. Congress to a plantation exploits those who suffered under slavery and it trivializes the brutality of a dark period in American history," said potential Clinton challenger John Spencer.
"People make mistakes, and when they do, honest people quickly recognize it and apologize," said the former mayor of Yonkers. "For Senator Clinton not to apologize over 48 hours later can only lead voters to think she really meant and stands by these racially divisive remarks. This is very sad that Senator Clinton stubbornly refuses to make amends and apologize. She should do it in writing and on the Senate floor."
Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson declined comment on Spencer's statements.
At an event Tuesday night in New York City, Clinton stood by her earlier remark, claiming the House was run "in a top-down way."
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Good move. The 'Pubs need to call the Dims at every opportunity. Hitlery is evil personified. No way that this thing can be permitted to be closer to the reigns of power. It is a thing that must be eliminated at all costs.
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the beaast just blew any slim chance she had of capturing any southern state in the 2008 election.
JMHO
This a an interview in 2004 with Soledad O'Brien.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/18/ltm.05.html
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
(snip)
O'BRIEN: Another thing we were talking about in the news today, of course, is the House Republicans changing the rules to essentially inoculate Tom DeLay if, indeed, he is indicted.
No, don't laugh before I finish my question here. What do you make of that this morning? We're hearing lots from -- from Capitol Hill about this.
CLINTON: Well, I mean, what can I say? It's just so typical. I mean they're running the House of Representatives like a fiefdom with Tom DeLay as, you know, in charge of the plantation.
I think it's kind of a sad commentary. I don't think it's good for democracy. I don't think it's good for the Republican Party.
But again, I don't have a vote in the Republican Caucus in the House. They'll decide what they want to do.
But one would hope that they would not be so quick to change the rules when it affects their leader. They certainly wanted to apply the harshest of rules to Democratic leaders for so many years. I think we need to call a truce to all of this back and forth, and you know, let's have rules that apply to everybody. It's like the idea that some want to change the filibuster, which has been a time-honored tradition in the Senate.
You know, absolute power corrupts absolutely. And I think that we have an administration and Republican leadership that, you know, is very powerful. And power should be handled carefully in a democracy.
So, again, I don't have a vote in any of this, but I hope that, you know, more thoughtful minds prevail over what should be done going forward.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
Why does no one realize that her sole objective is to demystify or defuse the term that will otherwise be used successfully against Hillary by the one candidate who can defeat her?
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"Spencer wants Clinton ``plantation'' apology on Senate floor"
I hope he isn't holding his breath.
Al Sharpton danced around this making excuses for her tonight and Bill O'Reilly joked with him like he didn't know what the big deal was -- then it came out they had gone to dinner together a year ago tonight...
Punish her by putting her to work on a plantation--mowing grass.
Mooooooooo!
I'd love to hear from the Congressional Black Caucus on this "plantation" matter.......
When she goes off like that, she reminds me horribly of every loud-mouthed liberal I had to put up with in school.
Please, don't hold your breath while waiting.
The democrats were all about the plantation. The republican party was formed to fight against the plantation.
There is a problem with this:
Newt Gingrich, just before becoming Speaker of the House, made the same comparison in 1994:
“I clearly fascinate them,” Gingrich said of the Democrats. “I’m much more intense, much more persistent, much more willing to take risks to get it done. Since they think it is their job to run the plantation, it shocks them that I’m actually willing to lead the slave rebellion.” [Washington Post, 10/20/94]
'ELIOT THREATENED ME' SOUVENIRS
Senator Clinton Makes Her Run While Tiptoeing Around 2008
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A demorat apologize? That will happen when the deficit is gone. In other words, never.
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