Down on the plantation

Mickey Kaus at Kaus Files (scroll up) probably has the best comment I've seen yet about Hillary Clinton's comparison of serving as a member of Congress to being a slave on a plantation:

Asymptotically approaching persuasiveness: I endorse the emerging line of CW holding that Hillary's plantation" comment was hardly offensive in itself, but rather demonstrated "Hillary's tin ear and her lack of awareness of it"** as she tried to "manipulate the black crowd and let her avoid explaining her support for the Iraq war." ... "Plantation" is a once-loaded locution that long ago became detoxified through overuse. But telling an African-American audience "you know what I'm talking about" re-emphasizes the absurd equation of the life of a slave with the life of a member of the House of Representatives making $165,000 plus perks, minimizing if not trivializing the evil of the former. ...