Quotes of Note that reflect what conservatives think. Or are up against.
A Harsh Truth About Hillary's Plantation
For surely the sound byte of the past week has been Hillary Clinton's allegation that the House of Representatives was run like a plantation and her assertion that her audience knew what she was "talking about".
Said audience being a primarily black audience and the occasion for the speech the birthday of black icon, Martin Luther King.
Of all the rhetoric about this Hillary remark, I find this one, from Opinion Journal.com, to be the harshest as well as the truest.
Al Sharpton arranged that speech and if Al knows nothing else, he knows how to pander to the blacks of New York. He is a major reason Hillary even won her Senate seat in New York, carpetbagger that she is.
She plays on the black sense of grievance then politely walks all over their support in her insane quest for the presidency.
Has anybody seen the latest polls on Hillary? Two years before the 2008 elections, fully 51% of the public state they would never vote for the woman. If this many feel this way now, how bad will it be the close the election looms? Will the Democratic party give up any hope whatsoever of regaining power, all to appease this woman with exactly zero voter appeal?
Mrs. Clinton came to Al Sharpton's MLK celebration looking for an easy harvest of black votes. And she knew the drill--white liberals and Dems whistle for the black vote by pandering to the black sense of grievance. Once positioned as the white champions of this grievance, they actually turn black resentment into white liberal power. Today, Democrats cannot be competitive without this alchemy. So Mrs. Clinton's real insult to blacks--one far uglier than her plantation metaphor--is to value them only for their sense of grievance.
Mrs. Clinton's husband was a master of this alchemy, and his presidency also illustrated its greatest advantage. Once black grievance is morphed into liberal power, it need never be honored. President Clinton notoriously felt black pain, won the black vote, and then rewarded blacks with the cold shower of welfare reform. And here, now, is Mrs. Clinton sidling up to the trough of black grievance, eyes wide in expectation, but also a tad contemptuous. It is hard to fully respect one's suckers.
Speaking of Hillary
Article comments
1 - DJRadiohead
I liked Alito until he waffled on Springsteen. Now I am not sure of his qualifications.
2 - Pat Fish
Which begs the snarky comment:
"Not liking Springsteen is better than any reason the Dems have offered against Alito".
3 - DJRadiohead
Agreed.
4 - Bliffle
I don't think Hillary can win a general election, so the dems would be silly to run her, but that doesn't mean they won't do it.
But she's not the first one to call congress a plantation, just the first to provide such a juicy target.
5 - Bing
The Dems and liberals can offer up all the bullshit talking points they want about Bush and the GOP but the bottom line is that the Dems are desparate to regain the power in Congress that they held for so long. The reason the Dems lost that power is because they have become so beholden to the far far and I do mean far left special interest groups and that's not where the majority of Americans lie.
As for Alito he will be confirmed despite all of the petty protests from jackasses like Ted Kennedy and John Kerry (that's Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb to us conservatives in the northeast.)
As far as Hillary goes well I can't think of a more self centered, evil, maniacal, power hungry, shell of a human being. It's like Satan himself sent her here to make us suffer. Anyhoo she will be nominated by the cluless Dems who think she represents America and she's a role model for young girls........ and she will lose to whoever the GOP runs.
There are some so called "progressives" and far left libs that love this woman but they drastically underestimate the intense, burning, hatred that those who are not them possess for this cunt.
6 - Pat Fish
Bliffle....There's been plenty of Dems out and about proclaiming that Newt Gingrich also once referred to the House as a plantation. I've yet to find one single link to that quote.
One Dem operative said Newt said it offhand to a reporter. Hardly, come on...hardly the same thing as intentionally inserting it into a planned speech.
Bing...tell us how you REALLY fell about Hillary.
Though, heh, I agree. But Americans aren't going to elect this woman...ain't gonna happen. She has the most unlikeable quotient of any politician in the last twenty years. Her husband Bill was a master. She is nothing but a shrew awaiting her chance to rule the world.