Senator Likens House to Slavery, Drawing Rebukes From Some

New York Sun ^ | 17 January 2006 | JULIA LEVY

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Martin Luther King Jr. fought four decades ago to free black Americans from the legacy of slavery. Yesterday, Senator Clinton compared the Republican leadership of the current House of Representatives to the very idea the civil rights leader dedicated his life to fighting. "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run - it has been run like a plantation," she said. "You know what I'm talking about."

Mrs. Clinton, who was addressing a packed house at the Reverend Al Sharpton's annual Martin Luther King Day event at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, continued: "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard. The Senate's not that bad, but it's been difficult. It's been difficult."

Later in the afternoon, Mrs. Clinton's press secretary, Philippe Reines, declined to comment on the senator's allusion to slavery, but he said she was simply discussing "a top-down system that is fundamentally at odds with how the people's House should operate." Mrs. Clinton's reference to one of the darkest periods of American history drew applause, but some national political observers said yesterday that they doubt the comparison of mainstream politicians to slave owners will help the senator win broad-based support as she tests the political waters for a possible presidential campaign.

"The use of the term plantation is foolish, and my guess is that she will live to regret this," a University of Virginia political analyst, Larry Sabato, said. "She's playing the race card."

[Recovering_Democrat]

Hitlery strikes again.

[highlander_UW]

Mrs. Clinton, who was addressing a packed house at the Reverend Al Sharpton's annual Martin Luther King Day event at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, continued: "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard. The Senate's not that bad, but it's been difficult. It's been difficult."

The Dems seem to have all the good drugs (not that I use any). It seems as if the only thing one DOES hear is the constant bleating of the dims.

And talk about hypocrisy...it's the dems that try to keep minorities beholden to the democrat party through entitlement programs instead of helping minorities excel.

[Lancey Howard]

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run - it has been run like a plantation," she (Mrs. Clinton) said. "You know what I'm talking about."

Actually, I have no idea what that scumbag is talking about.

[CalGOPTom]

ROFL!

Testify Sista Hillary!

Serves her right for pandering to Sharpton!

[CBart95]

Just in case anyone was worried about this monster.

She carries her own suicide kit in her head at all times and is ready to commit at a moments notice.

[FOG724]

This woman is so disgusting.

[kingu]

Gosh, Hilary, you think that some don't remember what it used to be like with the Rats in charge? It is a garden with how much our side worries about making sure that the liberal point of view is voiced and respected.

Tell me, Hilary, how come, if this is such a draconian place, that they were able to hold a Downing Street 'investigation' in the capital building?

Geeze, can't these liberals finally get it? You keep losing elections because you don't offer an alternative, you just whine incessantly, and those whines are usually over the most pitiful and stupid things.

The House is not a plantation; were it so, Nancy Pelosi would be picking cotton instead of giving her latest diarrhea of the mouth to the press corps.

Stop being stuck on stupid, Hilary - only the most die-hard in your party are there, and only they would do more than roll their eyes at such junk.

[Dahoser]

A little later today, the RATS will borrow the clown car from Ringling Brothers and load up the usual Congressional suspects like Moms Waters and Plant the Flag on Mars Jackson-Lee for a ride around Washington on the Hellary Sychophants 'r Us tour.

[mfulstone]

The woman is mad, mad, I tell you!

[jocon307]

"It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

This is not a very good definition of slavery.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wow, that's a first... Larry Sabato actually sounded irate... at a Democrat !

[maggief]

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem church on Monday.

[RetSignman]

Ahhh, I love the smell of desperation in the morning.

[Calico Cat]

She's always pop-eyed, and looks like she got about two hours of sleep.

[Kirkwood]

She probably was inspired by the underground railway under capitol hill.

[MNJohnnie]

Actually Hill, Plantation style Liberalism is what the modern Democrat Party practices on the minority communities. You require the minorities to show up and vote for you at every election while keeping them subservient to you with a substance level of Govt handouts. You want to see Plantation Style Politics, look to the modern welfare state and it's chief proponent Hillary Clinton.

[agere_contra]

Hillary! was projecting, as usual. The House isn't remotely a plantation, but certainly the Democrats run their large percentage of the black vote as a plantation, using them as vote slaves and viciously attacking anybody who "makes it out" - such as Clarence Thomas or Condoleeza Rice.

[RushLake]

The Hysterical Channel should do a special about this loon. She's crazy, a racist, and a queer. They can probably find a few dykes, Gore Vidal and two others, to make the case for her antiheterosexuality.

[tkathy]

When are the republicans going to start fighting back?

The democrats should know about "plantation times", because the democrats, both north and south, were fighting the republican efforts to end slavery?

It's time to start hitting the democrat party with the truth about it's racist, slave past, or the republicans will lose all minorities.