Senator Clinton used a speech at a MLK Day observance to call the GOP-dominated government 'one of the most corrupt in U.S. history' and said that the House and Senate were run like a 'plantation' where 'voices of dissent were quashed'.
It's simply amazing that Senator Clinton would toot her own horn on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and to launch an attack on her rivals by means of one the most mean-spirited and culturally insensitive ways imaginable. She also showed a unique misunderstanding of what plantations were and what was done to slaves there. Coming from a white southern woman, it was an incredibly dumb thing to say.
I don't see any Democrats in Congress being whipped, being forced to work out in the cotton fields, being shot, being raped by their overseers, being severely beaten, having parts of their feet being cut off to keep them from escaping, being starved (plenty of overweight Senators and Congressmen to go around), and other unspeakable terrors inflicted on African American slaves in the South.
Senator Clinton's side can't get their legislation through Congress, nor can they stop GOP legislation due to their lack of numbers. And they're whining about it. Consider this: if they had the same amount of control over both houses that the GOP has, they would be really sticking it to the GOP in the SAME way that the GOP is sticking it to them right now.
The Democrats ought to get over it, and campaign for what they believe in, not for what they think people want to hear. Honesty and establishing where they stand on specific issues will gain them more points than Senator Clinton's misinformed and insensitive comments will.
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