"Did Senator Clinton's comment about "plantation" go too far ?"

[kentuck]

MSNBC QOTD.

Yes, when you tell the truth about the Congress, it is going too far? When they shut out the minority and let the special interests bribe them, and feed them, and take them to foreign countries in fine jets to golf at expensive golf courses, that's no problem? That's not going too far? But when a Senator makes a comment about it, she is going too far? Get real, MSNBC!

[seabeyond]

1. i thought the plantation thing was stupid. why i say we dems cannot

play the same stupid games that the repugs do. that so many on this board shout we do .... or they walk from the party. it never works with a dem, these stupid sound bites. the dems that dont give a shit if someone is gay got their ass kicked for calling mary cheney, an outed lesbian, a lesbian,.... bah hahahah. how stupid

kerry looked and sounded totally unnatural being so manipulative, didnt work at all

yet, people keep insisting our senators do this shit.

and then when the congress people do, and it sounds stupid, media repugs and dems ignore all that person said in a kick ass speech and focus on that one moemnt.

and so many on the board will jump on media and repug banner and beat the dem up

what hillary said in her speech was excellent. saying exactly what so many on the board is telling our senators to say. she got little coverage if any, for those of you that say media will play our stuff, if dems will only say it. i read it on the board.

and here is a thread, trashing hillary. hillary is not a favorite of mine, but seldom do i actually hear what hillary said. so i was interested in her speech. i appreciated it because probably i dont support hillary like i should. i am not a fan. and i dont like NOT supporting our dems, when they have earned it. so i value the fact that this speech actually got out for me to read. probably the only reason is so she can be bashed about the word plantation


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[William769]

2. Hillary is someone to be reckoned with.

Thank God!

[peekaloo]

3. We all live in the land of cotton

Corporate Media wants the Dems forgotten
Look away, look away, look away, look away.

:mad:

edit: forgot the fiddle :nopity:

[sui generis]

4. key words to remember:

whenever some pundit asks "did . . . GO TOO FAR", "SHOULD BE ALLOWED", "CONSARNED ABOUT" (int. misspelling)

you know it's another opinionated hard haired uptight grandstanding republican jerkoff with an axe to grind.

It's funny how they can't get away from those catchphrases that are just the equivalent of rousting the peasants to go fetch their pitchforks and torches.

[The_Mule]

11. Brilliant, sui generis!

"opinionated hard haired uptight grandstanding republican jerkoff with an axe to grind"

You paint the picture so completely.

[mattclearing]

5. There is no such thing as going too far. They are just words, after all.

And truthful ones, at that.

[PDJane]

6. No, it didn't.

It's going to take more of that kind of comparison to wake up the US........

[CornField]

7. I think it is very difficult for any white person to use racially charged

rhetoric. Quite frankly, the words would have much more meaning if they had come from Obama or any other person of color.

It isn't that the public doesn't agree, because I'm sure quite a few of them do, but the whole thought of the Southern woman/plantation owner bashing the system which has projected her own status is close to laughable.

[William769]

8. Your statement is laughable!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Hillary Clinton was born in Park Ridge, Illinois. Went to Wellesley College in MA. & is a U.S. Senator of New York!

Thanks I needed that.

[CornField]

9. I'm sorry you missed the point

[Yollam]

10. Not too far, just completely misirected.

Just because the dems in the house are a minority doesn't mean they aren't a bunch of spoiled politicians. If she had compared the squalor and indignity that America's working poor endure, thanks to GOP policies, to the plantation, she would have been a little more on target, but really, the plantation was that plantation, Auschwitz was Auschwitz, and comparing modern-day injustices to them may just be inappropriate in any case.

I'm not a fan of Hillary, but I'm surprised she would say something so clumsy.