She wants to be the master in the Big House.
That is not what she said.
Hillary:
"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."
BTTT
Nothing.
yet.
According to today's local paper from the national news list, the following blurb:
"Obama defends Clinton 'plantation' comment
"Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday defended Sen. Hillary Clinton's portrayal of the House of Representatives as a 'plantation,' saying she accurately described the muscle that Republicans wield in Congress.
"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, D-Ill., said on CNN's 'American Morning." 'That should be a concern for all of us.'
"Since Clinton, D-N.Y. declared Monday at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Harlem that the House 'has been run like a plantation,' the controversial comment has aired again and again on television and talk radio. Her critics have deemed the statement racist.
"Clinton has stood by her comment. She said Republicans have run Congress with a 'top-down' mentality, declaring: '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 . . . . 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"
Someone please ask Ms. Scarlett to explain herself to the peons.
She knows and plans everything she says and does. Whatever she meant, it was ugly and uncalled for.
Massa Hillary and Chocolate Nagin in '08!
When Condi gets back in the States, I wish some reporter would ask her how she likes working on the "plantation" that Hillary says employs her.....
Too bad, because it's well written.
We know Hildebeast has used the term 'f***in Jew bastard' in the past - maybe she's also used 'f***in N**** bastard' as well ...
Lee Harris should do a little more research before he puts pen to paper. (Or, more likely, fingers to keyboard.)
What 'choo talkin bout' Willis!
"So what on earth made Hillary Rodham Clinton describe the Bush White House as a plantation?"
It was a racial slur of sorts. She's appealing to the Blacks for support because, she suggests, they're just the slaves of this administration.
HA! Like they haven't been the slaves of the liberal Clinton administration. How about Clinton's, "Dumbing Down of America"? Welfare, anyone?
Boy do I feel stupid.
In my article on Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Bush running the House of Representatives as a plantation, I totally misrepresented the Senator’s comments as if she had been talking about the White House, from which I drew several conclusions, none flattering to Senator Clinton, and none of which, in light of the facts, should have been drawn by me. Though one may disagree with the remarks that Senator Clinton actually made, they certainly did not deserve to be treated the way I treated the remarks that I wrongly assumed she had made, and I owe an apology both to the former First Lady and to my readers for my error.
While at the moment I feel a bit foolish, I am genuinely pleased to discover that Senator Clinton did not make the statement that I wrongly imputed to her -- though, needless to say, I would have been even more pleased if I had discovered this before I wrote the article! I have always respected Hillary Clinton, and I am relieved to find out that her swipe at the Bush administration was well within the pale of normal American partisan discourse. My distortion of her words was entirely the result of my own carelessness, and was not the result of any ill-will or malice toward her.
For some time now I have thought about writing an article on the dangers of speed reading on the Internet. It was originally intended to poke fun at people who read my articles and then imputed to me ideas that were often the exact opposite of those that I tried to express. Unfortunately, this incident has made it vividly clear to me just how very close to home this danger lies.
On the hand, the great virtue of the Internet is that when someone makes a gaffe like mine, it is immediately pointed out to the idiot who has made it, who, in this case, unfortunately, is me. (It’s always much more fun when the idiot is someone else.)
It is often said that people learn by their mistakes, though in most cases what they learn is to make different mistakes. No doubt in the future I too will make new and original mistakes, but I will always try to correct them as soon as they are brought to my attention, and to apologize to anyone I have treated unfairly because of them.
Lee Harris is the humble author of Civilization and Its Enemies.