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Al Sharpton: Hillary Clinton Right about GOP 'Plantation'
Radical firebrand Rev. Al Sharpton is defending Sen. Hillary Clinton after she blasted GOP leaders on Capitol Hill for playing what she called "plantation" politics, with Sharpton saying he's happy to see that the former first lady is adopting his views. "I absolutely defend her saying it because I said it all through the '04 elections," Sharpton told the New York Daily News on Tuesday. The undisputed king of New York City racial politics praised Clinton for calling it like she sees it. "Any time you have a situation where, because of seniority and cloakroom politics, the bosses make the decisions - that's tatamount to [a] plantation," he insisted.
Story Continues Below Mrs. Clinton invoked the racially incendiary analogy to blast the GOP at a Martin Luther King Day celebration on Monday, which Sharpton also attended. "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation," she told an audience at Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church. "And you know what I'm talking about," Clinton added. "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." The episode isn't the first time the former first lady had attempted to paint Republicans as racist. After then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott resigned from his leadership post in 2002, Mrs. Clinton told reporters: "If anyone thinks that one person stepping down from a leadership position cleanses the Republican Party of their constant exploitation of race, then I think you're naive."
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