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At a Martin Luther King event in Harlem, you'd think the most incendiary remarks would come from, oh, the Reverend Al Sharpton. But no, yesterday, Senator Hillary Clinton took the opportunity to put the screws in the House of Representatives, comparing the GOP-run House to a "plantation". Seriously. 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 am talking about. 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." Well, of course, that's the way the Republicans like to run things - it helps them forward their agenda! The Daily News says the reaction at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ was "muted," but Beltway reaction was fast and furious, with Republicans accusing Clinton of being divisive on such an important day. Black leaders defended Clinton, whose spokesperson said, "As she said, under Republican rule the House leadership has stifled real and substantive debate, preventing Democrats from offering amendments and engaging in real discussion." Snap! The shots are sounding for 2008.
The Daily News wonders if this is a blunder for Hillary,
Well, now conservatives really won't be happy if she runs for president. Best quote is from the director of UVA's Center for Politics: "At least she didn't mention Hitler."
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Tin ear, maybe? Way to equate hundreds of years of misery, oppression, and brutality with party discipline. I don't think Hillary is stupid, but okay, I think sometimes Hillary is profoundly stupid. Is this the opposite of preaching to the choir, given that it was in a church memorial service for MLK Jr.?
I'm sure people whose ancestors were killed during slavery would appreciate her likening plantation life to a cushy do-nothing job in the House.
Whatever. I guess it would mean something if there were an (R) after her name.
A Republican accusing you of being divisive is like Mariah Carey telling you to switch to salads.
Madame President is already receiving messages of support from black community leaders, so that argument should go nowhere. This is simply a good, nimble politician shoring up her ideological base. It's called winning politics, which is why my colleagues on the left are getting all squishy about it.
BTW, are we through the looking glass here? With the Daily News picking on Hillary and the Post of late being very sympathetic to her? Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
What a vile woman. The decision to appear with Sharpton on MLK day and spew out conspiracy theories she doesn't even believe herself shows just how contemptuous she is of the black community. Anyone on the ballot in November is preferable to Clinton.