Hillary Maligns Republicans, Shows Own Ignorance

Mark Belling made some fantastic points on Rush Limbaugh’s program earlier today that I believe need to be reinforced. Belling found the comments made by Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday particularly infuriating—and rightly so. Senator Clinton, who compared the Republican led House of Representatives to a “plantation,” during a Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration in Harlem. Democrats supported her remarks, and this story co-led most nightly news programs alongside former Vice President Al Gore’s remarks on the Bush administration’s “domestic spying program”—a title that is as misleading as basically everything else reported by major media outlets.

But Senator Clinton is clearly incorrect. Incorrect to the point she either must be: 1) vapid, unintelligent, incapable of coming up with logical ideas and concepts, or 2) lying specifically for the sake of advancing a specific agenda for the purpose of asserting her own political power.

What’s the evidence to support those claims? Let’s compare party leadership roles of the “Plantation Republicans” and the “Opportunity Democrats.” In the last election, around 90% of blacks aligned themselves with Democrats, and about that same percentage voted for Senator Kerry for President. So the Democrats should look to roughly 90% of blacks as a major portion of their constituency. Now, how many blacks are in major positions of leadership in the Democratic party? Senator Baraq Obama of Illinois, unelected leaders like Rev. Jackson and Rev. Sharpton, and some governor positions like Mayor Ray Nagin, whose name is only known because of his ignorant remarks and inept and uninspired leadership in the face of crisis. If you look back at the Clinton administration, now 5 years in the history books, minorities held cabinet positions including: Sec. of Labor, Sec. of Veterans' Affairs, Sec. of Energy, and Sec. of HUD. Naturally I had to look these up, because no one ever talked about any of them except lauding Clinton for appointing ‘so many minorities.’

Now, the Bush administration: 2 black secretaries of state, 1 black Sec. of HUD, Asian Sec. of Transportation, Asian Sec. of Labor, Hispanic Sec. of Commece, and Hispanic Attorney General. Also note that the one black Supreme Court Justice—Clarence Thomas—was appointed by the elder President Bush.

So, in other words, the white Democrat leadership claims to support issues important to blacks, and the Republican leadership does not support blacks, because they put blacks in prominent positions where they can affect changes on their own behalf.

So how about that Hillary in ’08? I hope people remember this kind of stuff when that campaign wheel starts rolling.