By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sen. Hillary Clinton blasted the Bush administration as "one of the worst" in US history and compared the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to a plantation where dissenting voices are squelched.
Speaking on the American holiday honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Clinton also offered an apology Monday to a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors "on behalf of a government that left you behind, that turned its back on you." Her remarks were met with thunderous applause by a mostly black audience at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem.
The House "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," said Clinton, a New York Democrat. "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."
"We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence," she said. "I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."