Hillary Clinton: Minion of Satan

The House "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," said Clinton, D-N.Y. "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."

Let's forget for a moment that the substance of what she's saying about the way Congress is now run is basically right on, and that I agree that the Bush administration is one of the worst in American history.

That said, what's up with the language? Is a plantation really the best metaphor for a situation in which "nobody with a contrary view has... a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard"? (one wonders if she bounced the phrase off her husband, "America's first African American president," before including it.) Of course it isn't, and what an insult to the memory of the slaves to claim that it is. By those lax standards of comparison, why not compare Congress to the Gulag Archipelago, Auschwitz, or a white slavery compound in Dubai? Because using the word "plantation" in front of a black audience is Hillary Clinton's quid pro quo to African Americans and certain elements of the white left in exchange for their support for her presidential bid. Quite a bargain for Hillary and the ad consultant wing of the Democratic Party! Particularly when you consider that that's all her supporters are going to get from a hypothetical Clinton II White House. No significant changes in labor laws, trade agreements, or health care (maybe another horrendous, incomprehensible insurance industry welfare plan) are likely to come down the pike, so just be content with her firebrand language and the fact that the wingnuts spit blood whenever they hear her name.