That’s right, I asked it.
From the AP: Sen. Clinton: House ‘has been run like a plantation’
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.
A follow-up from the next day, from the CNN: Clinton’s ‘plantation’ remark draws fire
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton drew criticism Tuesday for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in which she told a mostly black audience at a Harlem church that Republican leaders have run the House “like a plantation” and the Bush administration will go down as “one of the worst” in U.S. history.
Responding to the speech, House Speaker Dennis Hastert called her remarks “a little bit over the top.”
Yes, just a little bit over the top. She’s lucky she is a democrat or calls for her impeachment would have already been made.
The always supportive Al Sharpton did not pass up an opportunity to chime in.
However, the host of the event where Clinton made her remarks Monday, activist Al Sharpton, disagreed with the criticism.
“I absolutely defend her saying it because I said it through the ‘04 elections,” he said.
Of course you do Reverend Al. Too bad she was not a Republican, because you would have had a new cause and a new excuse to let those pearly whites, shine in front of the camera.
The funny part of this article was at the end:
Clinton, whose husband, former President Bill Clinton, was the second president in history to be impeached, also offered harsh criticism of President Bush.
“I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country,” she said. Clinton also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience “on behalf of a government that left you behind.”
Hillary, you have nothing to worry about. This is a title your husband Bubba, will hold onto for sometime to come. Nice try.
Nice post from Michelle Malkin on all of this.