Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan today told reporters Hillary Clinton's comments about the House of Representatives being run like a "plantation" were "way out of line."

WND asked McClellan about the remarks, made at a church in Harlem, N.Y., yesterday during an MLK Day celebration.

At the event, Clinton said, "When you look at how the House of Representatives has been run, it's been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about." She went on to say, "I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

"I think [the comments] were way out of line," McClellan said.

The spokesman also criticized former Vice President Al Gore for comments slamming the president over wiretapping by the National Security Agency.

"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.

WND also asked McClellan about 15 Cuban refugees who landed on the Florida Keys Flagler Bridge recently but were sent back because they didn't set foot on land.

"Since Ramon Sanchez of the Democracy Movement is into his 11th day of a hunger strike in protest [of the refugees being sent home], when will the president announce a review of this policy?" asked WND.

"I think our policy is very clear when it comes to Cubans coming to the United States," said McClellan. "And we expect that policy to be followed in the way it was spelled out, the 'wet foot, dry foot' policy, that is."