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Bill Clinton: House Dems Treated Like 'Sharecroppers'
NewsMax.com ^ | Feb. 4, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 02/04/2006 8:16:43 PM PST by 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."


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 109th; backpedaling; clintons; gopplantation; impeachedrapist; plantation; sharecroppers; x42
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To: Lurker

Nah. To be a sharecropper, one needs first to have crops to share, right? As far as their productivity regarding the crops is concerned, they are not sharecroppers but more properly agricultural pests, and should be treated to spraying.


121 posted on 02/05/2006 5:31:52 PM PST by GSlob
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To: Carl/NewsMax

I think Bill comes from a long line of sharecroppers. And Bill hit his head when he fell of the turnip truck. Now all he can focus on is oral sex.


122 posted on 02/05/2006 6:56:12 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Washington never reached its current level of divisiveness until The Clintons came to town.


123 posted on 02/05/2006 6:58:06 PM PST by rvoitier ("Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans." -- Dr. Thomas Sowell)
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To: Pharmboy

I was wondering about that plantation worker myself. Also, what plantation would that be?


124 posted on 02/05/2006 7:05:46 PM PST by skr
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To: skr
I have known a few people in my life that--for no need or reason--lie rather than just say what it is. They live to lie--perhaps always to keep others off balance or just to feel superior because they're getting something over on another person.

Clinton is such an individual, and he is extremely skilled at it. Plantation worker indeed...

125 posted on 02/05/2006 7:17:12 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: Pharmboy

We apparently have a member of the family who doesn't even know she's lying, apparently from an underlying jealousy.


126 posted on 02/05/2006 7:32:26 PM PST by skr
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To: Carl/NewsMax
"Oh, absolutely I do. And it had no racial overtones."

Not to mention that oral sex is not sex.. despite its last name being sex. And "I never had sex with that woman.. at least until the DNA tests came back.. I didn't."

127 posted on 02/05/2006 8:15:05 PM PST by Common Tator
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To: Carl/NewsMax
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."
Bill, just tell 'em to put some ice on it...and you know what I'm talkin' about.
128 posted on 02/06/2006 2:31:27 AM PST by Once-Ler (The rat 06 election platform will be a promise to impeach the President if they win.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; ...

BTTT!


129 posted on 02/06/2006 8:21:24 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Jack Murtha: America's best-known EX-marine)
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To: Psycho_Bunny


Now Playing: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

130 posted on 02/06/2006 2:29:17 PM PST by OESY
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Now, now, Slick Willie.

No one ever accused you of being a sharecropper. White trash, yes. Trailer trash, yes. But NEVER a sharecropper!!


Just admit that your wife of convenience is a race baiting bitch, and I'll forgive you for trying to defend her........NOT!!


131 posted on 02/06/2006 3:44:09 PM PST by GeorgeW23225 ("Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal")
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To: rvoitier
Right you are. And the damage they did in just 8 years will take perhaps generations to fix, if ever!!

They are a truly despicable couple!!
132 posted on 02/06/2006 3:47:49 PM PST by GeorgeW23225 ("Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal")
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To: Carl/NewsMax

It's worse than that. The Republicans are treating the Democrats like interns! Right, Bill?


133 posted on 02/06/2006 4:00:10 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: 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.

And this unidentifed man undoubtedly attended one of the black churches that Clinton remembers were being burned when he was a child ...oh, except there is no record of any churches being burned!

134 posted on 02/06/2006 4:06:35 PM PST by The Citizen Soldier
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To: Psycho_Bunny
OMG! LOL! :D
135 posted on 02/06/2006 4:55:23 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
Clinton screwed Maynard Jackson and fixed the DNC election so that his bagman Terry McAuliffe got Maynard's Chair.

The Democrats lost the House in 2000 and Democrats selected Pelosi over Harold Ford Jr (There is a God).

Pelosi selected Matusi to be DCCC head over William Jefferson. Jefferson said he wanted the job and Matsui said he did not.

Hillary Clinton waited to the last second, Mischief Night, to raise money for Carl McCall at her Whitehaven Manse. Not enough time to for the money to have an impact. The very next day she goes to Plattsburg to open a factory and says so many nice things about McCall's' opponent, Governor Pataki that Pataki asks from the podium, "You not going to get in trouble for saying that are you?" Finally, McAuliffe pulled McCalls money and sent it to the Florida race.

And Charlie Rangel can choke on calling Bush "Our Bull Connor". Bull Connor was a Democrat, a member of it's ruling body the Democrat National Committee and proudly died a Democrat. Whatever you thnk of his actions in the 60s, what he did to black people in 1948 was far worse. When the Democrats proposed a civil rights plank for their platform, Connor led a walkout of Mississippi and Alabama Democrats. That's a good 15 years or so earlier that the firehoses and the dogs and far more damaging because it kept people down that much longer.

Democrats abuse black people.

136 posted on 02/07/2006 6:08:42 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (COLD PINK: Frigid Womyn For Peace)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Hillary is responsible for windfall Viagra profits....


137 posted on 02/07/2006 6:12:11 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (COLD PINK: Frigid Womyn For Peace)
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