Was Hillary Dismissing MLK?

Personally, I feel that the major networks are favoring Obama. Every time a news show is on, there is coverage of Obama and the Impact he is making. Every comment about him is positive. This morning on GMA, Diane pointed out how impressed she was on the Obama organization in NH. DO you mean to tell me that NO other candidate has an organized staff? When George interviewd Hilary, he cut her off in mid sentences. I feel that the networks have decided who should win and then they are giving that person all the positive spin. He is a first term senator with little experience in dealing with foreign affairs. OIs that what we need today in this country?

America for the sake of our Country we cannot afford to take chances – THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA choose who is The Most Qualified Presidential Candidate – who do you think has the brain and can lead the Country on Day One. Don’t base it on LIKABILITY you are running a Country United States of America not a POPULARITY CONTEST. Do you remmeber G. W. Bush he was likable what happen now; where are we now? Are we better off today than 7 years ago? Don’t listen to the National Media do your own research check YOUR CANDIDATE Records, what have they done and what there Accomplishment. Don’t believe in there Poetry and Prose Speeches. REALISTICALLY EXPERIENCE CAN BRING A REAL CHANGE FOR THEY’VE BEEN THERE.
God Bless America!!!!

Only she didn’t say that LBJ “help[ed] out” the civil rights movement, she said that he was the precipitating force behind it. I honestly don’t even know what analogy she’s trying to draw here. Obama, is running for president too, so is he LBJ? Or, is he MLK? Or, maybe JFK? It’s so confusing. She makes no sense. She’s been all over the place today, crying one minute, pulling scare-mongering tactics the next, not-so-subtly implying that the “negro” should stick to activism and leave the governin’ to serious folk. I’m actually a huge fan of LBJ’s, but I wouldn’t go around drawing that particular comparison if I were her. After all, he was also undone by an irrational commitment to an unpopular war. Sleep in tomorrow, Hillary. Your brain clearly needs the rest.

I am in total shock!! How can Clinton say such a thing and just days from MLK day!? I didn’t hate Clinton before… but now I loath her!! I have heard of shooting yourself in the foot, but she just shot herself in the head! She is unelectable… period!

Obama is the Carter for this generation.
If anything, how dare Obama compare himself to JFK. He is no JFK, RFK or MLK.
–philip

Who remembers the Carter years?
I do!
Tapper?
Lots of false hope, big promises of change. What we got was an inexperienced, recession making, inept foreign affairs president.
Want to have a beer, go find Carter or Bush. But no Barack. Not now. No.
–philip

The wife of the former president is smarting because the press/clinton love fest is over! I’ve prayed for this day for years! Fame and fortune will follow the media reporter who finally does to the clinton’s what woodward/bernstein did to Nixon, that is tell the truth about them. Unmask them. Show them for the weasels they are.
bill clinton disrespected the White House and he has no personal respect for his wife. The voters finally know the truth and that’s why she is losing, big time! hillary doens’t know the meaning of the word ‘change’…barack does, he gets it!

Hillary Clinton has accomplished nothing,no significant legislation with her name on it. She left the Arkansas education system in worse shape than it was when they took over. Please tell me one specific thing she did on her own, anybody…………….

Obama is a gifted speaker and an intelligent human being – he’s leading his own movement which has just begun. We don’t know how it will ultimately look, but its taking shape as I type these words. If your awake like the voters in IA & NH are, then you can particapate in making History! If your too jaded or cynical…well, you can miss this moment and be on the wrong side of Histroy like Hillary is. “Let Freedom Ring…”

Not sure she was “dismissing” MLK…but she was certainly minimizing his role. Pretty amazing she’d be so stupod if u ask me.

All of the press is talking about the positve campaign of Obama, then everytime Hillary opens her mouth they attack her. It is one thing for a candidates representatives to talk about the negatives of another candidate but the press is suppose to be giving us the news not entering the race on one side or the other. Give us some facts about Obama,instead of try to get him elected. Also what is the matter with the voting public it looks like they are not even thinking they are just taking the press’s recommendations and marching to the voting booth like good little sheep. The press did the same thing when Bush was putting forth a false case for going to war and look at the lives that has cost us.

Billary’s desperation is showing. She has been all over the morning news shows mischaracterizing Obama’s comments after minimizing MLK’s life work. Even if she won the nomination she would never win the election because their would be a virtual BlackOut. African Americans will stay home before they vote for her. Her comments are hitting email inboxes and being posted to websites geared to African Americans as we speak.

Scotty, you’re SPOT ON!!!
The Clintons are digging their own grave. Rather than run on her record and spell out what she’d do, they accuse and destroy. They’re first mistake? Running an incumbent campaign. Second, assuming that we want to elect a President simply because they know how to fight the opposition.
As for Obama’s record, he may have had excellent schooling but money had nothing to do with it. His mother had nothing; his grandparents were solid middle-class Midwesterners. He EARNED that education. Affirmative action may have helped him along but it didn’t get him to the top of the Harvard Law Review or to the faculty of the University of Chicago – brilliance and competence did. As a state legislator, he was instrumental in passing ethics and justice legislation. In each case, he worked vociferously with the opposition until they came over to HIS side. In the U.S. Senate, he wrote landmark ethics legislation.
It’s past time for acrimony. If Sen. Clinton is as fine a candidate as her supporters say, demand she and her husband cease the smears and exaggerations. It’s far beneath a former President and First Lady of the United States. Let Sen. Clinton run on her own message and record. If it’s what the country wants, she’ll be the next President. Otherwise, she should conduct herself with the grace and dignity expected of a former First Lady and sitting U.S. Senator. It’s about the country, not the Clintons.

Hillary Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!
The best woman for the job. What has Obama done for the country lately?
Anne

As a Black person, I was really offended when I heard Hillary say this. She more or less said MLK’s contributions were null and void, which I believe speaks to the essence of who she and her (cheating) husband really are, Neo-conservatives “pretend Democrats”

This comment is telling of Hillary’s understanding of social change as well as belittling the contributions of MLK. I want someone to explain to me her 35 years of social change. How has our country benefited from this change? What are the policies, laws, and programs created that advance the quality of life for all Americans? If you look at her voting record and her contributions while in Ark, can anyone answer these questions? Check her record yourself. I plan to juxtapose Hilary’s record with verifiably policies and programs she created as an exercise in my undergraduate course that I teach which covers social change!!!

Although I did not interpret Obama’s comment as comparing himself to MLK, I thought he described MLK’s contribution to our society. Is Hillary claiming to be LBJ? Is that an earned comparison? Again, what is the outcome in policies and programs created from her 35 years of social change? We know the impact of both LBJ and MLK. Can someone explain her 35 year legacy on our society? Also, is she bribing African American clergy and politicians to persuade African American voters in SC?

Obama was making a comparison with MLK as a person hoping for better for its citizens. Of course he has not been through all of the fight of MLK and neither has many others who came on the scene after MLK.
What you SHOULD be outraged about is the fact that Hilliary Clinton DISMISSED the works of MLK!!! Without his dream…..and actions, the president would not have taken up the mantle to make part of it come true.
Please open your eyes!!! Let us not get it twisted. Black, brown or white to disregard the impact of the MLK movement should be of importance to you.
How close are we from the plantation mentality?

I agree w/scotty. Just because Obama had money when he was growing up, he still had to work for scholastic achievements, respect, and his dreams/goals. Where is the harm in one who dreams of unity and CHANGE?! He might still have a master plan…. Go MLK and Obama!

I am sick and tired of Bill and Hillary Clinton and I am offended by both their condesending comments about Obama (“fairy tale”) and MLK (LBJ was responsible for the civil rights bill, not MLK). Had it not been for MLK’s dream and putting his life on the line, African-Americans might still be sitting at the back of the bus. Be careful Black America. These comments may clearly indicate their TRUELY dismissive attitudes toward African-Americans. African-Americans supported Bill Clinton after the Monica affair and enabled him to serve a second term. The Clinton should be supporting Obama–its his time. VOTE OBAMA!!!

I am so surprised at some of these comments by those who are supposedly well informed.
Hilary Clinton did dismiss the work of Martin Luther King, who put his life on the line every day, ultimately losing it to help others. She implied that LBJ’s actions were more important. The truth is, if it had not been for MLK and others, who inspired THE WORLD TO TAKE NOTICE, it would have been business as usual in the White House.
Someone says that Senator Clinton was very influenced by seeing Dr. King speak in her youth and has had a life-long dedication to civil rights. What has she done to further civil rights? She and her husband’s goal has been and is to chase the money (Hello Whitewater??) She speaks about who she knows personally, but because she’s finally realizing that we are tire of the same old mess, now speaks of “change.” She wants it both ways.
Obama has been working to better the lives of people before he became well known. He has integrity, good character, a real marriage and family life, not just for show or photo ops. Personally, I think a person who has demonstrated he has the best interest of all people at heart, especially those less fortunate than himself is more fit to run this country that one who brags about who they know. Obama could have chosen the money, he attended an ivy league school, is also married to an attorney. His home and fellow citizens were and are more important. I’m sure he never lacked for opportunities.
Bill Clinton signed the bill that made it law to allow people with small amounts of crack to get sentenced a lot more time that those with larger amounts of powder cocaine. Neither is a good thing, but it was then, and is now, a well-known fact that crack is cheaper and thus tends to affect inner city neighborhoods which have a higher population of minorities. This is a little known fact because many of us don’t seek the facts, but were influenced by the good-guy personality. And he was the only we saw on the Arsenio Hall show, and played the sax.
This woman has not earned the respect from the black community, nor does she deserve it. If her feelings were so heartfelt she would be the one making the rounds of black radio, rather than her husband. She doesn’t even appear to be comfortable around blacks, which is pretty evident not only from her recent remarks, but those she’s made in the past, too.
Last, but not least the lady who asked her the question just before her “tearful response,” saw it for what it was, insincere. She voted for Obama. She felt the phoniness.

Just read AJ’s comment. I am an African-American and I WAS offended because Clinton implied that without MLK’s dreams actualized by the president America wouldn’t be what it is today. The truth is that MLK actualized his dreams in millions of people when he gave his “I Have a Dream ” speech. He planted seeds of hope and that is exactly what Obama is trying to do. I don’t think he should be stopped.

Hillary was not dismissing Dr King, She was simply saying that he worked with the cooperative president as a team. Maybe she could have emphasized this unity more, but objectively, what she said was accurate and respectful.