Did Hillary Clinton Just Call me a Slave?

[ethics]

"This reminds me of one of my favorite American heroines, Harriet Tubman," the senator told 1,800 cheering supporters. . . .


"She made it to freedom after having been a slave and she got to New York and she could have been so happy . . . but she kept going back down South to bring other freed slaves to freedom.


"And she used to say, 'No matter what happens, keep going,' " Hillary Clinton said. "So we're going to keep going until we take back the White House!"


Sounds like she was drawing a comparison between Harriot Tubman and herself and her winning NY in Senate.

So, does that mean before Clinton was elected in to Senate, us New Yorkers were slaves that she freed? Even if she didn't. (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/04/24/2007-04-24_ill_fight_like_harriet_tubman_hil_tells_.html)

Where does she get the balls to compare herself with Tubman? A woman who truly not only did break the chains of slavery for herself but others?

And no one takes offense at this?

[tke711]

I think it's a massive insult to Tubman. There is not one thing Hillary does that isn't for her own gain, which is the EXACT opposite of Tubman.

[Andy]

Today's Day by Day (http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2007/04/26/#a004102)from Chris Muir is rather fitting then, I guess? :biggrin:

[ethics]

Yes, it's perfect. :)

[ravital]

Where does she get the balls to compare herself with Tubman?

Yes, don't expect black leaders to trip over each other on their way to the microphones to denouce this.

[I thought all New Yorkers knew she had grown a pair of her own when she was VP and Al Gore was first in line to become First Lady?]

[MemphisMark]

That goes right up there with her "being named for" Sir Edmund Hillary. Too bad no one knew who he was when she was named.