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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: devolve

The dems are losers and have no agenda, so they have lots of time for 'sob stories' and lying.


61 posted on 02/04/2006 9:26:36 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: Trueblackman
For those of us who remember when Democrats ran the house and how Republicans were treated, this is just too damn funny.

When the Dems ran the House, they would lock Republican congressmen out of attending committee meetings, provided Republicans with a fraction of the staff the Dems now enjoy as the minority party, and made it clear to lobbyists that any financial support of Republican congressmen would be the kiss of death for items of legislation that the lobbyists wanted passed. And let's not forget the cover up of massive corruption and scandals like Barney Frank's boyfriend having sex with him in the congressional gym and running a male prostitution ring from Frank's home. A Republican would have been removed from Congress for such misconduct. Of course there was Jim Wright's phony book sales to Teamsters, the Rottenkowski shenanigans, etc. It wasn't a plantation under the Democrats...it was the debauchery of Rome under Nero.

62 posted on 02/04/2006 9:38:39 PM PST by peyton randolph (As long is it does me no harm, I don't care if one worships Elmer Fudd.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

So what does this say about Mr. Clinton's treatment of Monica? Would Monica have been a "share slopper"? And what would Mrs. Clinton have to say of the "shares" that Mr. Clinton delivered to Monica? Would Mrs. Clinton have lapped that up?


63 posted on 02/04/2006 9:44:27 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
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To: 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

You know he sat in the back of the bus for Rosa Parks.

64 posted on 02/04/2006 10:05:59 PM PST by dancusa (Appeasement, high taxes and regulation collects in the diapers of bed wetting liberals.)
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To: potlatch
That's truly marvelous! Your handiwork?
65 posted on 02/04/2006 10:08:52 PM PST by nopardons
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To: dancusa

LOL


66 posted on 02/04/2006 10:09:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Thanks so much, yes that one is mine! I call myself a headhunter, lol, always cutting out peoples heads for graphics! Bill Clinton is a little 'wan' in that one, I need a better head of him.


67 posted on 02/04/2006 10:17:35 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: potlatch
BRAVA; excellent job!
68 posted on 02/04/2006 10:32:32 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Carl/NewsMax

The republican party was formed to fight the abuses of the democrat plantations.


69 posted on 02/04/2006 10:37:07 PM PST by tkathy (Ban the headscarf (http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com))
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To: Lurker
House Democrats were being treated like "sharecroppers."

LOL. Well that's a step up from being a field slave on a plantation.

70 posted on 02/04/2006 10:55:37 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Condimaniac)
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To: Reactionary

Golly! The she had the same look on her face when Bush made that crack about his "brother." Bill.


71 posted on 02/04/2006 10:59:47 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Carl/NewsMax
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."

Liar.

 

72 posted on 02/04/2006 11:02:07 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Libertarians are Anarchists who bathe.)
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To: Crooked Constituent
What a nice 'brother' Bush has in Bill

Better not ask GW to actually comment. He'll defend the impeached one. (Ya know, it's that ex-president / "Two-Party Cartel" thing). Remember that Islam is a religion of peace & the illegals are only here for work. GULP!

73 posted on 02/04/2006 11:02:21 PM PST by Digger
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To: Carl/NewsMax

74 posted on 02/04/2006 11:04:07 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Libertarians are Anarchists who bathe.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Next, House Dems will be treated like the victims of lynch mobs. Not long afterwards, they'll be forced to sit at the back of the bus. After that, they'll be treated like newly-integrated schoolchildren. Next, they'll start referring to themselves as "Democratic Americans". Hopefully by the time November rolls around, they'll be treated as welfare queens and given a special holiday.


75 posted on 02/04/2006 11:05:11 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: peyton randolph
When the Dems ran the House, they would lock Republican congressmen out of attending committee meetings, provided Republicans with a fraction of the staff the Dems now enjoy as the minority party, and made it clear to lobbyists that any financial support of Republican congressmen would be the kiss of death for items of legislation that the lobbyists wanted passed. And let's not forget the cover up of massive corruption and scandals like Barney Frank's boyfriend having sex with him in the congressional gym and running a male prostitution ring from Frank's home. A Republican would have been removed from Congress for such misconduct. Of course there was Jim Wright's phony book sales to Teamsters, the Rottenkowski shenanigans, etc. It wasn't a plantation under the Democrats...it was the debauchery of Rome under Nero.

Right On! So why does GW let them off of the hook by his favorable mentioning?

76 posted on 02/04/2006 11:07:59 PM PST by Digger
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To: Digger
So why does GW let them off of the hook by his favorable mentioning?

W worked with moderate Dems in Texas as governor. He somehow believes that the same bipartisan outreach will work with moonbat Dems in D.C. Why he believes this after 5 years of mudslinging by the Dems is beyond me.

77 posted on 02/05/2006 12:04:35 AM PST by peyton randolph (As long is it does me no harm, I don't care if one worships Elmer Fudd.)
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To: Carl/NewsMax

Why in the world would ANYONE care what that pathetic, narcissistic, self-absorbed, megalomaniac, moron says????


78 posted on 02/05/2006 12:07:18 AM PST by stockstrader
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To: potlatch

Help free Hillary from the Plantation!
Vote REPUBLICAN In 2006! Your Underground Railroad to FREEDOM!!!


79 posted on 02/05/2006 12:09:29 AM PST by tcrlaf
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Great line, but you have a typo.


80 posted on 02/05/2006 12:53:26 AM PST by M. Thatcher ( I truly hope for two things before I die. The death of the Democrat Party, and the death of Islam.)
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