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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-17-06 03:32 PM
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send this to Hil Clinton Newt Said Dems Think They “Run The Plantation.
Edited on Tue Jan-17-06 03:34 PM by rodeodance
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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Montauk6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-23-06 08:23 AM
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1. The Consoviets also made plenty of bold antiwar statements during Kosovo
One accusation that won't stick is that they're not craven hypocrites.
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