First Lady Joins Critics of Clinton's 'Plantation' Quip

[sabra]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-011806plantation_lat,0,6543636.story?coll=la-story-footer&track=morenews

First Lady Joins Critics of Clinton's 'Plantation' Quip


WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Clinton's controversial description of the Republican-dominated House of Representatives as a "plantation" continued making political waves today, as First Lady Laura Bush joined the fray from Africa.

"I think it's ridiculous," Bush said of her White House predecessor. "It's a ridiculous comment. That's what I think," she told reporters aboard her airplane over Nigeria when asked about Clinton's remarks.

Bush became the latest Republican to take Clinton to task. The White House already has chided New York's first-term senator, with spokesman Scott McClellan on Tuesday calling her comments "way out of line."

[NYC Liberal]

1. Fuck you Laura. What about all the Repukes who made

plantation references in the '90s, huh? Care to comment on THEM?

I thought not :eyes:

[bpilgrim]

6. gore and hillary's remarks and rebuttals - > mp3

http://GLobalFreePress.com

peace

[Dr.Phool]

20. She doesn't remember them.

Too many martini's.

[Rex]

2. Hillary says

GO FUCK YOURSELF! That should sound familiar to Repuke scumbags.

[fishnfla]

3. The hurricane's name was Katrina

On a more important note

[adigal]

38. Ridiculous comment by Laura: Hurricane Karrina was BAD!!!!

She is as dumb as an old shoe. As are her daughters and husband, can't even say the name of the Hurricane of the Century right.

Another Bubble Bush.

[katty]

49. Laura, you're ridiculous...even more so married to the chimp

[barb162]

59. they are a perfect match

[HuffleClaw]

4. *yawn*

i see they've chosen to make an issue of this in an attempt to pretend gore's speech never happpened.

[MasonJar]

5. Hey, Pickles, as out of line as your cancelling the poetry readings

because some of the poets didn't buy into the Bush lies on Iraq and war. And who cares what you think anyway?

[hatrack]

7. Hey Laura! Thanks for solving the gang problem!

No more gangs now anywhere in America - great job!!

:puke:

[sabra]

11. Hecka of job you doin, Pickles, Hecka of job...

[stanwyck]

51. Does anyone ever ask her

about that? Really. Bush appointing her (He could think of "no one more qualified") to chair ending gang violence was another surreal moment in this grossly mismanaged administration. This woman would have a tough time getting a job in the public schools. She bolted her librarian work after a brief stint and has been hailed as an authority on education by the right. But then, authority status comes easily on the right. Jeff Gannon was haled by Fox News as a "distinguished journalist". (Sean Hannity). And Brownie did a "heckuva job". (GWB).

[truth2power]

75. I was asking about that here a couple of weeks ago..

She was making the rounds of all the networks, touting that verrry important endeavor. Then...nothing. Does she think the American people have no short-term memory??

Oh...wait....

[ronnykmarshall]

8. Blow it out your ass Laura!

Fucking stepford wife.

[KingFlorez]

9. And we care what you think because?

Shut up, Stepford Wife Laura no one cares what you think

[Gemini Cat]

10. It walks! It talks!

Wind the stepford wife up and away she goes!!
Spewing stupid statements the world over!!

Shut up Laura and take your pills.

[Felix Mala]

76. "I'll just die if I don't get this recipe."

[madame defarge]

12. It's very clear...

They are making a big deal out of every word from a Dem's mouth...

Diversion. That's all this is. Ignore it.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Laura, you've got no room to talk, you boyfriend murderer. n/t

[JuniperLea]

14. Well! I do declare! Why, clutch my pearls and gasp!

The Missus doesn't recognize herself? Lordie me!

[KittyWampus]

15. Care to explain the GOP's "Southern Strategy" Laura?

[Fridays Child]

16. Laura, hon? How about a nice, cold martini and nap?

You're going to hurt yourself, if you don't take it easy.

[okieinpain]

47. speaking of that does anyone think "24" is messing with the

White House by having a delusional first lady.

[Joey Liberal]

17. Give Laura another drink, but

dont let her drive!

[roguevalley]

18. She forgot to take her xanax. Probably considers herself an

expert on plantations since her family has and still does maintain one.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. Did somebody tell this moron that we cared about her uninformed opinions?n

[Pirate Smile]

21. Has Laura become a Republican pundit? It sure seems like it.

[sabra]

22. sadly yes, they are trying to use her "star power"...

no joke.

[MissB]

61. It is all they have right now.

[Dr.Phool]

23. She don't count!

We wanna hear what the Quaker Oats Guy (Babs) thinks.

Probably doesn't want to fuck up her beautiful mind with Hillary.

[CottonBear]

24. Once again, the GOP attacks a word and not what Sen Clinton actually said

about hoe the GOP is running the government and bullying the congress.

[stepnw1f]

25. Shut Up, Haus Fau! (nt)

[liam_laddie]

26. uhhh...the context was...

Hillary was talkin' in a black Baptist church in Harlem, and they cheered, and they
"got it." Which obviously no rethug, from Norquist to Bozell to Li'l Scottie, does.
They are ASSHOLES all! Outta DC or else!

[Submariner]

27. Who wound this POS up and set it loose...back to your room honey

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

28. Her exact words...

"Oh, fiddle dee-dee!"

[Tamarin]

29. Another deep-thinking Bush. n/t

[SillyGoose]

30. You know they're getting desperate when they drag the "lump in the bed"

out to save the day.

I have no interest in anything this woman has to say. Doesn't she have a gang to save?

[tanyev]

31. Hey, Laura! Was it ridiculous when Newt Gingrich and several

other conservatives used the same kind of language?

Plantation comments by Hil. Clinton and New Gingrich.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=164710

Fake Outrage 101 / Hypocrisy 101 - The Republican Party
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=168400

[firefox]

32. Why doesn't Laura address what Gore said?

It is like Hillary went off just to distract from the call for impeachment. So why did Laura not address what Gore said? Well, any talk of impeachment is to be ignored and when Conyers said "impeachment" on the floor of the House the PTB had it removed from the official transcript.

[Libby2]

33. Now I know she said the right thing.

[arcane1]

34. Repubes LOVE to play the victim

of those mean ol' Democrats

cry me a fucking river

[Hobarticus]

35. And, exactly WHY are you in Africa?

Don't we have enough right-wing stooges spreadin' the GOP Gospel worldwide?

How much is that costing us, Pickles?

Funny, when Hillary wanted to work on national health care, it raised a stink....but using the First Lady as a jet-setting mouthpiece is somehow okay.

[MGKrebs]

36. Ask your mother in law about it, Laura.

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

[NJCher]

37. ahem

Pssst. Pickles.

Get a clue: at your level of accomplishment, you are not qualified for any pronouncement on Hillary Clinton, anything she says, and especially, anything she wears.




Cher

[rooboy]

39. "The Smoking Woman" strikes again...n/t

[bluestateguy]

40. Don't apologize Hillary

Apologies are appeasement of the enemy. They will show her no respect, even if she does apologize. They'll just keep beating up on her. Stand firm, and it will all go away in a few days.

[progressivebydesign]

41. geez. Newt Gingrich used much the same comment.. no uproar there???

Such bullshit. Since WHEN is Laura Bush BLACK??? Does she speak for blacks now? Why is that no-nothing sticking her nose in everything lately? Has someone really decided she should run for president? Wish she's just shut up and take her thorazine like a good little zombie.

[rodeodance]

42. How do we tell Laura that?

[rodeodance]

43. FLASHBACK: Gingrich Said Democrats Think They “Run The Plantation”

[e-mail]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/


http://www.thinkprogress.org/
FLASHBACK: Gingrich Said Democrats Think They “Run The Plantation”

Prodded by the right-wing, the media is already swarming around Sen. Hillary Clinton for saying the House of Representatives “has been run like a plantation…It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard.” MSNBC has already launched a poll: “Was Clinton’s ‘plantation’ comparison too harsh?”

How long before the media mentions that Newt Gingrich, just before becoming Speaker of the House, made the same comparison in 1994:

“I clearly fascinate them,” Gingrich said of the Democrats. “I’m much more intense, much more persistent, much more willing to take risks to get it done. Since they think it is their job to run the plantation, it shocks them that I’m actually willing to lead the slave rebellion.”
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=164426&mesg_id=164620.


Mon Jan-16-06 06:33 PM
Original message
(Hillary) Clinton Slams Bush, White House in Harlem

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns...

Clinton Slams Bush, White House in Harlem


NEW YORK -- Sen. Hillary Clinton on Monday blasted the Bush administration as "one of the worst" in U.S. history and compared the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation where dissenting voices are squelched.

Speaking during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Clinton also offered an apology to a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors "on behalf of a government that left you behind, that turned its back on you." Her remarks were met with thunderous applause by a mostly black audience at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem.


The House "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," said Clinton, D-N.Y. "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

"We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence," she said. "I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

[shanti]

44. stamping her little feet....

"and that's that"!

[yurbud]

45. if they are bitching, it's a good sign, and probably the first

useful thing Hillary has done.

[zara]

46. Next thing she'll say, "way way way " outaline, ooh the horror.

[antonialee839]

48. Laura is ridiculous.

[LynnTheDem]

50. "way out of line"...

"I think (Americans) need to watch what they say."

THAT is way the fuck out of line, Scotty.

Geeez I hate these MFing rightwingnut assholes. I really do.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

52. Headline I'd like to see: GOP overseers fight "plantation" label.

[Gman]

53. Of course, Laura is an expert on stem cell research

and I'm a brain surgeon and an astronaut.

[bkcc]

54. Why is it that only white Republicans are upset about this?

Truth cuts deep, huh?

[LibDemAlways]

55. Memo to Pickles

A woman who killed someone and got away with it ought to keep her big mouth shut when it comes to commenting on the actions or words of others.

[Punkingal]

56. Yeah, imagine if Hillary had crashed her car into someone....

That is all they would EVER talk about. Kenneth Starr would have probably added that to his list of things to investigate.

[TankLV]

57. Kinda like how they are always giving Rev. Al Sharpton a break!

For things he said in the past that are taken out of context and quoted incorrectly.

I mean, they are all so "fair and balanced".

(sarcasm off)

[LibDemAlways]

58. You've got that right. She would not

be a Senator today, that's for sure, and they would not have been satisfied until she was indicted and tried for murder. Guaranteed.

[Kathryn STone]

60. I live in Dallas and people love her here.

I think she is like that South Park episode like "Stupid Spoiled Whore"

[Raster]

65. I lived in Dallas for 15 years. Of course they love her. Dallas, home of

the white-boy, petroleum mafia. They bought and paid for the dipshits' current tour of DC. Rumor has it Dallas is where dumbya and pickles will "retire" (try that one with a straight face), seeing how the "ranch" is just a stage set and dumbya couldn't tell a horse's dick from a cow's teat.

[JI7]

62. fuck you pickles, you frozen face murderous worthless whore

hahahhaa, i know some will say i'm being too tough but i don't give a shit.

i HATE laura. i hate her more than her disgusting mother in law. laura is so fucking worthless. she sits by with that ugly frozen look on her face and only responds when the right wing assholes program her to say something. she stands by all the horrible things her piece of crap husband does.

stupid bitch had a mother of a dead soldier arrested. fuck you laura, you cold hearted evil disgusting bitch.

[knight_of_the_star]

63. Wow

So eloquent and expressive :sarcasm:

[JI7]

64. Laura you bitch, your husband joked about soldiers dying for a lie

you ignorant worthless bitch. fuck you.

[wild potato]

66. What Hillary said

Whatever one thinks about Laura, etc., does that affect whether what Hillary said was worthwhile? What did it even mean? It just seemed like ham-fisted race baiting to me. And it certainly didn't hurt the Republicans overall, so far as I can see. The Dems keep getting beat. This won't help, will it?

[symbolman]

67. Well how about this

I personally Watched and FILMED John Conyers being treated like a fucking PIZZA BOY at the gate of the White House who FINALLY decided to "answer the door" and let him hand them over 500,000 signatures by Americans who wanted to know what the FUCK was going on with the Downing Street Minutes, if the war was a LIE, etc..

If all of us hadn't been there with OUR CAMERAS facing down the MEDIA CAMERAS on the INSIDE of the White House they would have told Conyers to get his ass back to the slave quarters and shut the hell up..

Didn't you notice when Gore was robbed that all of the BLACK CAUCUS were demanding that ONE, JUST ONE Congressman or woman step up and demand Justice, and NOT ONE DID..

The black caucus should be RUNNING THIS NATION, Maxine Waters, Conyers, etc..

Yeah Laura, I wonder why no one wants to talk about the boyfriend you KILLED? WHY..

We should all get together on all the blogs and start demanding to know the facts about WHY LAURA KILLED HER BOYFRIEND WITH A CAR, seriously - if she's ALL they have left, the only one in all of the white house that polls above 50% then it's time to FORCE THE MEDIA to do it's job and alert the Public to the MURDERESS that lives with the SERIAL KILLER..

Anyone want to start a National BLOG day, "What are the circumstances behind the death of Laura's boyfriend and WHY did she not go to jail?"

[wild potato]

68. Well, OK

"We should all get together on all the blogs and start demanding to know the facts about WHY LAURA KILLED HER BOYFRIEND WITH A CAR, seriously - if she's ALL they have left, the only one in all of the white house that polls above 50% then it's time to FORCE THE MEDIA to do it's job and alert the Public to the MURDERESS that lives with the SERIAL KILLER.."

I guess my point is that I really don't think that this kind of rhetoric will harm the Bushes, or the Republican's, politically.

[Name removed]

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[symbolman]

79. Murder is so Pre 911, eh?

Exposing CORRUPTION is a waste of time?

There is no VALUE in TRUTH?

I disagree vehemently, the TRUTH is the BEST way to out these bastards - honesty and sincerity are felt by everyone on the planet..

The Power of the PEN is being used against us all day long and for US to use it is a waste of time?

[baby_mouse]

69. A Day Old. She joined nothing.

Anyone else with anything to say about plantations?

They're certainly very hypersensitive to criticism these Republicans.

[Binka]

71. Malignant Fascist Narcissist Are Touchy

Boo Fucking Hoo!:evilgrin:

[baby_mouse]

72. Prone to bouts of exaggerated self-pity, fits of weeping over trivia

And pretending to care about things in order to apppear compassionate to an almost imaginary audience.

[Binka]

74. Indubitably A Lousy Bunch Of Panties In A Frist Drama Queen Frauds!

Alas. Alack.

[baby_mouse]

77. Forever the victim, the crushed lily on the garbage heap.

Such delicate creatures...

[Binka]

78. The Wilted Vine Of Bloviation The Effluvium Of Justice

Always Misunderstood....

[Roland99]

73. Hey, Pickles! Run any stop signs lately?

STFU **tch.