MLK on the Republican Nomination of Barry Goldwater, 1964

[nyquil_man]

In foreign policy, Mr. Goldwater advocates a narrow nationalism, a crippling isolationism and a trigger-happy attitude that could plunge the whole world into the dark abyss of annihilation. On social and economic issues, Mr. Goldwater represents an unrealistic conservatism that is totally out of touch with the realities of the twentieth century (...) While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives aid and comfort to the racists.

http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/mlk-republican-nomination-barry-goldwater

[mrr303am]

1. And Hillary was/is a proud Goldwater girl, what does that tell you?

[struggle4progress]

2. It tells me she was a political nitwit in high school, like almost everyone I ever met

[Major Nikon]

10. Would you think them still a nitwit if they were embracing those nitwit ideas in their late 40's?

http://usuncut.com/politics/npr-interview-hillary-clinton-was-proud-of-her-conservatism/

[nyquil_man]

3. Never mind what it tells me. What does it tell you? nt

[emulatorloo]

4. She knocked doors for Gene McCarthy in '68 and worked to get McGovern elected in '72.

So enough with the stupid bullshit Goldwater Girl meme. This ignorant nonsense about Democrats pisses me off.

Additionally this shit detracts from Bernie's message, so if you think you are doing Bernie any favors you are wrong.

[BigDemVoter]

6. Not Much.

She didn't remain a repuke very long.

[fleabiscuit]

11. That it is exactly like today's youth decision making. nt

[runaway hero]

5. "crippling isolationism"

Everyone likes war until it's brought to their doorstep...

[nationalize the fed]

7. k&r King 4 years later

Because of his spirited opposition to the Vietnam War under Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, King was strongly considered as a presidential candidate by anti-war liberals.

Identified as Americas' premier civil rights leader by 1967, King stunned and disappointed many of his followers by embracing the anti-Vietnam movement.

"Against the advice of fellow civil rights leaders, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, Martin Luther King began marching against the war," wrote historian Richard Pearlstein. "The two struggles felt to him one, and silence began to feel to him self-betrayal." In April of that year, King brought a massive anti-war rally in United Nations Plaza in New York to its feet with his signature pulpit oratory.

"Let us take a single instantaneous step to the peace table— stop the bombing!" he thundered. "Let our voices ring across the land to say the American people are not vainglorious conquerors — stop the bombing!"

Unknown to the public or the anti-war movement at large, its leaders were already talking to Dr. King as their candidate for president against Johnson in 1968.

On January 5, former National Students Association leader — and future New York congressman — Allard Lowenstein, Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin and four-time Socialist presidential nominee Norman Thomas held a discussion with King and his friend, New York attorney Harry H. Wachtel...

[nyquil_man]

8. "Outspoken agreement whenever proper, and determined opposition whenever necessary"

King said that about LBJ in 1964 and he obviously followed it to the letter.

It's a good example.

[63splitwindow]

9. K & R

Appropriately, Don the Con's private, high-dollar fundraiser before the rally in Phoenix tomorrow will be at the old Goldwater estate in affluent Paradise Valley:

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/15/donald-trump-fundraiser-held-barry-goldwaters-old-home-paradise-valley/85942042/

[fleabiscuit]

12. The country saw through the BS in that election. And a bit of BS fear mongering helped.