Just Say No To Hillary Clinton

It’s amazing, isn’t it? Hillary blatantly plays the race card in an attempt to slander all Republicans and paint them as slave owners so she can pander to her African American base, and it’s okay. The media has tread so lightly on this issue, barely mentioning it at all. But, and this is a BIG but. if a Republican had said that. Why then the shit would have hit the fan. You can bet your ass that the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Chris Mathews, PBS, CNN, The New York Times, BET, and all the rest of the Republican hating media would have jumped all over this story. They would have been demanding that the person who made “such remarks” issue an apology and resign immediately. But have they done that with Hillary? Nope. Why you can hear the tumbleweeds they’ve been so quiet. And today they sent out their new poster boy, Barrak Obama, to defend Hillary.

Sen. Barack Obama and other black Democrats are defending Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s description of the House of Representatives as a “plantation.” …

Clinton, D-N.Y., a potential presidential candidate for 2008, did not retreat from the “plantation” remark, telling reporters the term accurately describes the “top-down” way the GOP runs Congress.

Obama said Wednesday he felt her choice of words referred to a “consolidation of power” in Washington that squeezes out the voters.

The Illinois senator told CNN’s “American Morning” he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that “the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren’t in the majority party don’t have much input.”

“There’s been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if you are the ordinary voter, you don’t have access,” Obama said. “That should be a source of concern for all of us.”

New York Rep. Gregory Meeks also defended Clinton.

“There was no race card played here. If any card was played here it was a joker, because that’s who seems to be running the House right now if you look at the leadership,” said Meeks, a black Democrat….

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