Bill Clinton: House Dems Treated Like 'Sharecroppers'

NewsMax.com ^ | Feb. 4, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

[Carl/NewsMax]

Ex-president Bill Clinton defended his wife Hillary on Friday for claiming last month that the GOP-led Congress was being run like a "plantation," adding that he thought House Democrats were being treated like "sharecroppers."

Asked if he agreed with Mrs. Clinton's comment, the ex-president told WCBS Radio's Peter Maer: "Oh, absolutely I do. And it had no racial overtones."

"It was more about the arbitrary and complete exercise of power and control," he contended."

Clinton cited an unnamed farmer-turned-congressman from East Arkansas who told him he agreed with Hillary as well. "I wouldn't say we were slaves," Clinton quoted the congressman as saying. "We're more like sharecroppers."

The ex-president then added, "Another member of the United States Congress who worked on a plantation as a boy came up and thanked my wife for saying that."

After offering racially tinged anecdotes, Mr. Clinton again insisted that Hillary "absolutely meant nothing racial by it."

"I defend her, I think she did the right thing," he said. "And I think that's why the Black Caucus defended her."

[Lurker]

This is from The Onion, right?

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[originalbuckeye]

Keep talkin', Slick. I hope everybody hears you!!

[nopardons]

Yeah, yeah, yeah Billy boy and you witnessed black churches being burned, in Arkansas, when you were bitty; even though that never happened. LOL

[RatRipper]

"House Democrats were being treated like "sharecroppers."

This is unconscionable! Why on earth are these pond scum being treated so well?

[longtermmemmory]

Must be that plantation motto.

They are trying to turn the Republicans into the "plantation owners" and they are going to do a democrat party emancipation proclamation.

Triangulation at work.

[spectre]

He is still soooo predictable.

[Crooked Constituent]

In the midst of major global tensions and Chavez calling Bush 'worse that Hitler', it's good to hear Bill's two cents about Republicans.

What a nice 'brother' Bush has in Bill.

[Mo1]

Hey Bill .. Keep diggin you idiot

[Pharmboy]

The ex-president then added, "Another member of the United States Congress who worked on a plantation as a boy came up and thanked my wife for saying that."

Why don't you share his name with us you lying sack of sh*t. Why he must be 145 or mebbe 150 years old.

[Chena]

Billy says, "sharecroppers"? Perhaps it was a Freudian slip. He just can't get his mind off "pantsdroppers". And, I might add, he's obviously just sucking up to Hildabeast.

[Termite_Commander]

"Oh, absolutely I do. And it had no racial overtones."

Yeah, despite the fact that she said it in a black church before a black audience on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and then ended her statement with, "And you know what I'm talking about." or something.

I suggest the Clintons lead the first manned expedition to the Sun.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The modern Benedict Arnold spurts some real jiz!!

[maggief]

. And it had no racial overtones.

And YOU know what I'm talkin' about.

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[AbeKrieger]

The black caucus defends her because their groupthink allows democrats to say and do whatever they want and get a free pass, while lambasting anyone perceived as being even right-leaning, for doing the exact same thing.

Shame on them but black leadership is to blame for making these people jump when told, and to act and think the same way, and prevent themselves from accomplishing anything by telling them "the man is holding them down", while waiting around for handouts and a false promise of reparations. THAT, my friends, is slavery.

[Reactionary]

Yeah, boy.

The Reptile spews some idiocy to a black audience on MLK Day about a "plantation" and there's nothing racial about it.

Yeah. You know what I mean.

[Reactionary]

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

And it had no racial overtones.

Right! So if I tell Jesse or Sharpton to "go back to the plantation" that would have no racial overtones, correct?

[jazusamo]

Clinton is sounding more like the NYT and WaPo as time goes by citing those "unnamed sources." I wonder if it was a prepared or an off the cuff lie.

[Txsleuth]

What else would we expect him to say??