White House calls Clinton's attack ``out of bounds''

[sabra]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--hillaryclinton-re0117jan17,0,2818209.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

White House calls Clinton's attack ``out of bounds''


WASHINGTON (AP) _ The White House charged Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was "out of bounds" when she said Monday that the Bush administration was "one of the worst" in U.S. history and compared the Republican House to "a plantation."

White House spokesman Scott McLellan was asked about sharp remarks from two nationally prominent Democrats, Clinton, D-N.Y., and former Vice President Al Gore.

Gore, in a separate Monday speech, called for an independent probe of the administration program that listened in _ without a warrant _ on Americans suspected of talking to terrorists overseas.

Asked about the criticism coming from the two high-profile Democrats on the same day, McClellan said, "Well, I think we know, one tends to like or enjoy grabbing headlines; the other one _ sounds like the political season may be starting early."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. getting touchy, aren't they?

Could it be that the truth hurts?

Oh yeah, this is just politics. And Katrina was just a rainstorm.

[lebkuchen]

2. Bush's bombing of Pakistan was "out of bounds"

"Shock and awe?"

Goes w/o saying.

[cureautismnow]

30. Spot on. Excellent Literal Observation. n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

3. What bounds are those and who sets them?

[Canuckistanian]

4. Oh, and calling Murtha a coward was "fair and reasonable"

Right.

Bunch of crybabies.

[K-W]

5. This is news?

When did every press release from the white house become a news story?

[sabra]

10. I hear you... though a WH reaction to two major speeches

yesterday seems somewhat worthy?

[K-W]

15. The reaction is part of the story about the speech perhaps.

But a story unto itself?

And Im not sure that the white house saying 'critqueing us is out of line' belongs anywhere in a news story.

[henslee]

6. Just the fact they have to constantly play defense is.... delicious.

[gatorboy]

7. YAWWNN....I'm sick of these "tough guys"

Someone makes a biting remark towards them and all of a sudden the entire conservative party turns into Scarlett O'Hara.

"Oh, Rhett, the nasty things you say! Ah feel a faintin' spell coming on..Catch me!."

[pinerow]

27. Ahhhm getting the vapors...

n t

[katty]

8. entire U.S. gov structure a plantation, on its way to a gulag

[rodeodance]

9. he said the same thing about the plantation comment also when asked:

Speaking at an event in Harlem honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., the senator said the GOP-controlled House of Representatives "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about. 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."

She also railed against the Bush administration, predicting it "will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

Republicans voiced outrage at both Clinton and Gore, but at the White House, McLellan had harsher language for Gore.

"If Al Gore is going to be the voice of the Democrats on national security matters, we welcome it," McClellan said in a swipe at the Democrat, who lost the 2000 election to Bush.

[rodeodance]

12. Gingrich Said Democrats Think They “Run The Plantation”

I posted this earlier also


http://www.thinkprogress.org/
FLASHBACK: Gingrich Said Democrats Think They “Run The Plantation”

Prodded by the right-wing, the media is already swarming around Sen. Hillary Clinton for saying the House of Representatives “has been run like a plantation…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.” MSNBC has already launched a poll: “Was Clinton’s ‘plantation’ comparison too harsh?”

How long before the media mentions that Newt Gingrich, just before becoming Speaker of the House, made the same comparison in 1994:

“I clearly fascinate them,” Gingrich said of the Democrats. “I’m much more intense, much more persistent, much more willing to take risks to get it done. Since they think it is their job to run the plantation, it shocks them that I’m actually willing to lead the slave rebellion.”
........
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=164426&mesg_id=164620.

[slampoet]

11. Out of Bounds?

"Yes massa! it be out a' da bounds massa. Won't happen no more massa George! Just dont be boundin me up again."

And now Jane has the weather forecast

[superconnected]

13. I agree, she didn't call him the greedy mass murderer idiot that he is.

She wasn't even in the ball park.

[havocmom]

14. With all the surveillance going on, her remarks could not have been

a real surprise to them :evilgrin:

[merwin]

16. They're fucking politicians. It is ALWAYS the political season, dumbass!

I hate McClellan.

Same goes for "playing politics". What are they supposed to do? They're politicians! Does he expect them to play with their toy trains instead, like the president?

[MADem]

20. He probably prefers little green army men

But not the old school cavalry ones, because he is afraid of horsies!

[Village Idiot]

17. Wha's a matta, massahs? Some a us niggas gettin' too "uppity?"

[still_one]

18. what a bunch of cry babies

when they were constantly hounding bill clinton about monica, NOT ONCE did he say that or anything else was out of bounds

The truth will come out eventually

[MGKrebs]

19. The BFEE/PNAC has been WAAY out of bounds for a long time.

They could have called off the Swift Boat Liars.
They didn't have to talk about Plame.
They didn't have to claim McCain had an illegitimate child.
They didn't have to intervene in the Terry Schiavo thing.

[DoYouEverWonder]

21. I love the headlines - the WH Is lashing out at everything

I love the smell of desperation in the morning.

[donco6]

32. My thoughts, too.

Every day it's another, "WH responds to criticism" article.

Poor babies.

[savemefromdumbya]

22. out of bounds - did Scotty think that up himself?

Gore and Clinton need to lambast Bush in the media every day

[Zynx]

23. Suddenly they became the judges of appropriate political discourse?

That's a good one.

[Rex]

24. This ain't no basketball game!

And it is THE worst in American history! I expect this will either play out very badly or Repukes will be run out of town like in the early 20th century. This would be good because it kept Repukes out of majority power for dam near a century. Let's hope for a repeat.

[pinerow]

25. No Blood, No Foul...

Street ball rules...:wtf:

[pschoeb]

26. This is too funny, as Mclellan is essentially agreeing with Hillary

by stating this.

Her statement was
"has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about. 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."

So she essentially is saying, no one can do anything without the Plantation owner calling it "out of bounds"

The White House is like a Plantation, not just because of this, but becasue the "owners" are deluded by their own concept of their grandeur and lazy idiots to boot.

[Karenina]

28. I have NO PROBLEM

with her analogy and am just waiting for her to get a clue about Iraq.

[goforit]

29. Ya haven't seen nothing yet assholes!!!

[Vidar]

31. Makes me proud of Hillary & AL.

[snippy]

33. The White House response is a classic republican tactic.

The republicans are not whining about Hillary's comment, they are very deliberately and effectively manipulating the media and the American people. If it were not for the republican overreaction to her comment, nearly all of today's political news coverage would have been negative for republicans, especially Bush. So republicans decided to change the news coverage.

Republicans often react frantically and loudly to seemingly minor comments by democrats whenever they fear that the public may be getting a glimpse of their malignant hearts and diseased souls. They do this by blasting the media with emails and tv appearances screaming their overreaction and faux outrage in order to get the media to change the subject from what otherwise would be the biggest political story of the day. Rove did this many times to Kerry during the last campaign.

[xchrom]

34. i have no problem with a fight, Snotty, you wanted this

now you got it.

miss hillary told you your fuckin ass is showin all over the place and all you can do is whine.

[Deja Q]

35. Where was Bill when Trent Lott said "You can support the troops but not

the president."???????????????????

And why is nobody using that, amongst other anti-Bill-Clinton slurs, back at Bush regarding who is out of line and when?! Shit, if Lott said that quote today he'd probably be in Gitmo!

This is the latest example of Dems lying down for the rethugs yet again. Or is it too early to tell; no time for a proper response yet? The repugs were vile toward Mr. Clinton and most of it unjustified. Or responded to for that matter. But when the same vileness gets thrown at a repug, oh then cries of "Foul!!!!" come all over the place.

Anyone else tired of this double-standard?

Bill Clinton was genuine about working with the repubs. And apparently no good deed goes unpunished. What are we supposed to think?

Sometimes you have to show the namecaller that namecalling isn't nice by calling them names in return. Hillary obviously held nothing back, but if she doesn't respond to this "out of line!" nonsense then I will be surprised. She was with Bill when he got slurred to Hell and back over his 8 years, so she knows firsthand what went on. Therefore she has no choice BUT to respond to "you're out of line!" if she gives a damn about the Democratic party. And if she doesn't, she's only doing a massive disservice to us all. Pity Bill cheated on her, it might otherwise be easier for her to defend him.

And if the Dems don't respond to this bullploppy about being "out of line", don't bother looking for me at the polls. I'm beginning to understand why so many despise politics.

[MasonJar]

36. GWB is out of bounds lying, cheating, killing, a scum personified.