Posted on 01/17/2006 1:41:59 AM PST by rdb3
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), with her usual intuitive sense of misdirection, likened the Congress to a plantation, presumably during slavery years when Democrats ruled the south. It's a bit politically incorrect but to some extent she is right.
Congress often acts as if it were the master and the rest of us are slaves. They set overseers over us and rule every aspect of our economic and social lives. Certainly we are not free. Like slaves, what is not required is prohibited.
Senator Clinton forgets that she is one of the people living in the plantation house. So what's her point?
this is also a bad definition of slavery
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