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  • A (First) Lady-Like Way To Go On Attack

    01/20/2006 3:14:02 AM PST · by Liz · 24 replies · 1,272+ views
    New York Post ^ | January 19, 2006 | DEBORAH ORIN
    <p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could take a few les sons from Laura Bush if she really wants to run for president in 2008.</p> <p>The current first lady used the scalpel of ridicule to deftly cut the former first lady down to size by dismissing her "plantation" crack about Republicans as "a ridiculous comment."</p>
  • Hillary's "Plantation" and 2008 (Who's afraid of a Big Bad Hillary?!)

    01/20/2006 6:15:54 AM PST · by teddyballgame · 24 replies · 683+ views
    RealClearPolitics ^ | 1/20/06 | John McIntyre
    Senator Clinton’s Martin Luther King Day speech was perhaps the first gaffe in the 2008 presidential race. While it would be silly to characterize this mistake as a huge issue that is going to derail her candidacy, it does provide an opportunity to take a look Hillary’s candidacy and her chances for the Democratic nomination and the Presidency. For those unaware of Hillary’s “plantation” remark, this is what she said at Al Sharpton’s event to a predominantly black audience in Harlem: When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a...
  • Hillary Clinton begins using harsher rhetoric

    01/20/2006 9:53:17 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 47 replies · 941+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/20/06 | Marc Humbert - ap
    Up until recently, the New York senator has been under fire from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party for refusing to join the call for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and for her finely modulated criticism of President Bush. But there is a new tough-talking Clinton these days. At a Harlem church on Martin Luther King Day, she said that Bush's presidency would "go down in history as one of the worst" and that the GOP-controlled House "has been run like a plantation." In a post-New Year's Day thank-you note to donors, Clinton assured them she would fight for...
  • "Plantation" Comment Not Hillary's First Racist Moment

    01/19/2006 9:20:11 PM PST · by stratman1969 · 5 replies · 249+ views
    Marooned In Marin ^ | 1/18/2006 | Marooned in Marin
    "I have in the past certainly, you know maybe, called somebody a name. But I have never used an ethnic, racial, anti-Semitic, bigoted, discriminatory, prejudiced, accusation against anybody. I've never done it. I've never thought it." That is what Hillary Clinton said in July 2000, after the release of the book "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" Among the details it contained was Hillary calling the campaign manager of Bill's 1974 Congressional Race a "f--king Jew Bastard." Hillary, who was running for the Senate at the time, also said about the book, "I...
  • 'Plantation' remarks still echoing on Hill

    01/19/2006 8:41:53 AM PST · by neverdem · 45 replies · 1,636+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | January 19, 2006 | Donald Lambro
        Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fiery political remark Monday that the Republican House is like a "plantation" has triggered charges of playing the race card and a sharp rebuke from first lady Laura Bush, who called her comment ridiculous.     The New York Democrat's racial broadside during a Martin Luther King Day appearance at a Baptist church in Harlem continued to spark debate yesterday on both sides of the political aisle.     Black Democratic leaders such as Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois defended and attempted to explain Mrs. Clinton's remarks, saying she was referring to a "further consolidation of power" by Republicans in...
  • Hillary Clinton and the ‘White’ House

    01/19/2006 11:45:15 AM PST · by FOG724 · 32 replies · 1,274+ views
    TCS Daily ^ | 19 Jan 2006 | Lee Harris
    Hillary Clinton and the ‘White’ HouseBy Lee Harris | 19 Jan 2006 Hillary Rodham Clinton recently said that the White House under George Bush has become “a plantation,” and most of the black Democrats in Congress have endorsed her remark. Laura Bush, the presumptive mistress of the plantation, has called Senator Clinton’s remark “ridiculous, just ridiculous.” Now what put it into Senator Clinton’s mind to call the White House, where she herself was once the First Lady, a plantation? What is the basis of her analogy? Southern plantations were known for two things, one good and one bad. Let’s look...
  • Bush should issue Emancipation Proclamation for House Democrats (Text Here)

    01/19/2006 2:29:38 PM PST · by Craig DeLuz · 3 replies · 208+ views
    The Home of Uncommon Sense ^ | 01/19/2005 | Craig DeLuz
    In honor of Hillary Clinton's "Let my people go!" rant at a MLK event in New York, I believe that President Bush issue the following: The Emancipation Proclamation- For House Democrats November 7, 2006 By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. Whereas, on the nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six, all persons...
  • Finally! LA Times Reports Hillary's "Plantation" Remark!

    01/19/2006 2:45:49 PM PST · by infoguy · 15 replies · 756+ views
    Newsbusters.org ^ | 19 January 2006 | Dave Pierre
    Nearly three days after Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke her debated "plantation" remark, the Los Angeles Times has finally printed its first word about the controversy today (Thursday January 20, 2006).Tucked on page A8 of today's edition is "Clinton's Remark Criticized," a 495-word piece by Times staff writer Edwin Chen. The article begins with the eye-opening observation that Hillary's comment "continued making political waves Wednesday."Congratulations to the Times on such swift, cutting-edge news coverage ... (roll eyes) ...[Past related stories here and here.]
  • Spencer wants Clinton ``plantation'' apology on Senate floor

    01/18/2006 8:21:35 PM PST · by neverdem · 56 replies · 2,081+ views
    Newsday ^ | January 18, 2006 | NA
    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...
  • Spencer wants senate floor apology from Clinton

    01/19/2006 1:34:32 PM PST · by Patriot814 · 16 replies · 996+ views
    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."
  • GONE WITH THE WIND (miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)

    01/19/2006 2:02:06 PM PST · by Mia T · 105 replies · 7,135+ views
    01.19.06 | Mia T
    GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder) by Mia T, 01.18.06           "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 talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-dropping.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on...
  • Hillary Clinton's Arkansas Plantation(Building a Vanilla State)

    01/19/2006 4:29:47 AM PST · by Conservative Irregular · 30 replies · 1,088+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 18JAN06
    When Hillary Clinton used her Martin Luther King Day tribute to accuse Republicans of running Washington like an Old South "plantation" - she knew whereof she spoke. In fact, when Hillary and Bill ran Araksnas, Dr. King didn't even have a holiday in his honor - at least not all to himself.
  • HILLARY'S PLANTATION

    01/18/2006 7:58:03 PM PST · by NotchJohnson · 35 replies · 1,303+ views
    Neal Nuze ^ | 01/18/06 | Neal Boortz
    HILLARY'S PLANTATION The uproar continues today over the comments made by New York Senator Hillary Clinton at a Martin Luther King Day event on Monday. Or does it? Here is what she said: "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." Oh really? A plantation! You don't say. And what does the line "and you know what I'm talking about" mean? Does she mean the Republicans in the House are the masters and the Democrats the slaves? Maybe she means that...
  • Dick Morris: Fears of Condi Spurred Hillary's Racial Remarks

    01/18/2006 5:52:20 PM PST · by wagglebee · 98 replies · 3,486+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 1/19/06 | Dick Morris
    Sources close to New York civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton tell me that Hillary used his annual Martin Luther King Day forum to liken the House Republican majority's conduct of the House of Representatives to a "plantation" because she fears a Sharpton challenge in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary. Hillary also fears that if Sharpton were to challenge her, it could weaken her in a possible contest against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the fall, if Rice were to be the GOP nominee. "She is afraid of Condi," one of Sharpton's key people said. "She did not attend...
  • Dem Strategist: At Least People on Plantations "Were Doing Jobs"

    01/18/2006 9:44:02 AM PST · by rvoitier · 3 replies · 182+ views
    Mark Finkelstein's blog ^ | January 18, 2006 - 09:21 | Mark Finkelstein
    Trying to put out the fire that Hillary's "plantation" remark started, Dem strategist Elaine Kamarck might unintentionally have added fuel to it in a just-completed Fox News interview.
  • Sen. Obama Defends Hillary's 'Plantation'

    01/18/2006 4:43:20 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 86 replies · 1,515+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | 19 January 2006 | Carl Limbacher
    Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday defended Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for describing the House of Representatives as a "plantation," saying he felt her choice of words referred to a "consolidation of power" in Washington that squeezes out the voters. The senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input." "There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if...
  • The 'D' Stands for Demagogue

    01/18/2006 9:58:51 AM PST · by Reagan Man · 2 replies · 448+ views
    Human Events ^ | January,18,2006 | Michelle Malkin
    The freaks come out at night. The demagogues came out on Martin Luther King Day. Democrat N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton, perhaps looking to distract attention from those pesky Code Pink protesters who've been dogging her over the Iraq war, commemorated the holiday by pulling a reverse Sister Souljah at race hustler Al Sharpton's pulpit in Harlem. The Canaan Baptist Church welcomed her pandering with what the Associated Press described as "thunderous applause." When a Democrat politician stumps at a church, you see, it's "minority outreach." When a Republican politician stumps at a church, it's a theocratic outrage. Asked to explain...
  • Democrats Have Curious Form of Optimism

    01/18/2006 9:48:38 AM PST · by Reagan Man · 8 replies · 584+ views
    Human Events ^ | January.18,2006 | David Limbaugh
    Unlike our president, who spent Martin Luther King Day paying respectful tribute to MLK and Abraham Lincoln, Democratic Party notables, Hillary Clinton and Albert Gore, used the holiday as another opportunity to character-assassinate President George W. Bush. Just when we were beginning to think Hillary Clinton had found her voice -- albeit a decidedly phony one -- as a mature, seasoned politician poised for a presidential run, she reverts to those cacophonic utterances that find little resonance beyond her embittered but indispensable base. If one could momentarily suspend his powers of discernment, he could almost sympathize with a woman saddled...
  • First Lady (Laura Bush) Assails Sen. Clinton for Remark

    01/18/2006 9:40:31 AM PST · by radar101 · 39 replies · 1,524+ views
    AP News ^ | Jan. 18, 2006 | DEB RIECHMANN,
    Laura Bush criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday for suggesting that the Republican-controlled House is run like a plantation where dissenting voices are ignored. "It think it's ridiculous — it's a ridiculous comment," Mrs. Bush told reporters when asked about the remark during a return flight to Washington following her four-day swing through West Africa. Clinton made the comment in Harlem at an event honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. She said the GOP was running the House "like a plantation" because ideas from the minority Democrats were not respected. The White House on Tuesday called the senator's...
  • Black Dem Blasts 'Plantation' Hillary Clinton

    01/18/2006 7:51:58 AM PST · by Sub-Driver · 42 replies · 2,139+ views
    Black Dem Blasts 'Plantation' Hillary Clinton A high profile black Democrat in New York City is blasting Hillary Clinton for playing racial politics with her Martin Luther King Day tribute, saying her use of the term "plantation" was "condescending" to African Americans. "I think her speech was contrived and condescending," City Councilman Charles Barron told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity on Tuesday. "I don't like the idea that she used 'plantation' with a black audience," Barron complained. "I think that's a very serious analogy and I understand when we [blacks] use it from time to time. But that has been a...