CLINTON: Well, I mean, what can I say? It’s just so typical. I mean they’re running the House of Representatives like a fiefdom with Tom DeLay as, you know, in charge of the plantation.
So it can not be dismissed as off the cuff. She has used it before. Whenever Clinton wants to demonize the Republicans she pulls out that race card. For the party of inclusion they sure get away with a lot of racist remarks. The thing is, they are carefully calculated despite claims of a spur of the moment remark.