Does it seem to you that Obama uses Martin Luther King's name

[Aussie leftie]

as often as Rudy mentioned 9/11 in his speeches

[Cha]

1. See ya.

[NJObamaWoman]

2. Nope i haven't noticed that. But if so I'm glad. This is Black History Month.

Obama OWES where he is today to people like MLK. If some don't like it oh freaking well.

[donheld]

3. No it does not n/t

[EffieBlack]

4. No - you must have him confused with people like you who

love to drag MLK's name into virtually every conversation about Obama, which is pretty funny since most of you don't seem to have a clue about what Dr. King really stood for.

Run along now.

[jackson_dem]

14. EffieBlack invoking what Dr. King stood for

:rofl:

[Tarc]

17. MLK certainly didn't stand for empty rhetoric and a rudderless agenda

[Occam Bandage]

5. Nope. Not at all.

[ErnestoG]

6. Obama has a right to use it. Like MLK, he knows the value of a dream

Hillary knows the value of corpo and PAC money, and entrenched political entitlements.

[bellasgrams]

18. I think if you check your guy is riight up there with her on corp,

PAC and entitlements. He's no angel. In fact when the race first started I thought I could support him, but after watching and listening I changed my mind. He comes off as arrogant, full of himself and apparantly isn't able to speak in detail, only snippets. He's good at flowery fluff but that won't help him in office. And it worries me who he will get to help him. We've had almost 8 years of an on the job trainee and he still can't get it.

[Tatiana]

7. EVERYONE (Republicans excepted) use MLK's name. n/t

[VolcanoJen]

8. No.

This has been another edition of "Short Answers to Simple Questions."

And, for the record, ewww. Really?

[Binka]

15. No This Is Really Stupid Questions Posed By An Agitator

How much more fucking ridiculous can this get?

[MadBadger]

9. He uses him once in his Stump Speech when he mentions "The Fierce Urgency Of Now"

[Straight Shooter]

13. "The fierce urgency of now"? Are you serious?

LOL! It sounds like a slogan for anti-diarrhea medication.

[FrenchieCat]

19. You are soooo uneducated!

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assasination, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a talk to a large gathering of Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City. I think its relevance to the minimum wage campaign in Greensboro is apparent. Here is a segment of the talk:

MLK's speech:
Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men (sic) do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one’s own bosom and in the surrounding world… we are always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty… We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak…A few years ago…it seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor, both black and white, through the poverty programs.

There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam, and I watched this program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war. And I knew America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube…I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government…we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered…True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar.

It comes necessary to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring…A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death…We are now faced with the fact , my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… We must move past indecision to action.
http://greensborominimumwage.blogspot.com/2007/07/martin-luther-king-jr-fierce-urgency-of.html

[rusty quoin]

10. I know one thing, he gives a speech almost as well as him. nt

[Big Blue Marble]

11. No I do not and I watch a lot of his stump speeches.

You got a problem with MLK?

I think your post is real tacky.:grr:

[jackson_dem]

12. It makes sense

Obama is claiming he is creating a movement, a movement that will effect change from the bottom up. It is only inevitable that a candidate like that would invoke the man who lead the greatest grassroots campaign in American history.

[TexasObserver]

16. Ha! that's so funny

I love it when someone parodies those who make ridiculous posts.

[Thrill]

20. WTF? No he doesn't.

Some of you are getting pathetic now.