It doesn’t detract from the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. to note that he was not the President in 1964 and therefore unable to sign Civil Rights Legislation. That legislation would have never been on the President’s desk if it hadn’t been for King.

Left by Preston on January 21st, 2008 at 9:30 am

As for Mrs. Clinton giving a speech, I wouldn’t know, I won’t listen to her. Her invoking LBJ, though really is quite remarkable, and funny, when discussing him and voters rights or civil rights.
As evidenced here and here.
It was just politics to him, he didn’t care one bit about improving the lives of any one other than his party, and his self-importance, just like her.
What has happened to black Americans and their families, since LBJ’s “Great Society” bullshit?

BLACK COMMUNITY
In the 1940’s 18% of black women divorced, [15] in 1960 (just before “no-fault” and modern welfare) 3 out of 4 black children were born in marriage;[16] yet by the late 60’s and early 70’s, the divorce rate had reached 60%. [17] In the 80’s, for 25 year olds, there were 3 unmarried black women to each black man with a decent job. [18] Early 90’s African American children could expect to spend just 16% of their time in a married household, while Hispanics could expect 67% and Caucasians 80%.[19] The most common arrangement for black children under 6 (42% of the time), was to live with a mother who never married while all black children were only 1/2 as likely as whites to be living with both parents, and 8 times as likely to be living with a single mom. [20] “Exposure to single motherhood at some point during adolescence increases the risk [of a daughter becoming a single mom] by nearly [150 percent] for whites and… by about 100 percent for blacks.” [21] Married black family birthrates now average less than 1 child per marriage, if not for out-of-wedlock children, the African American population would quickly die off.[22] The affects of growing up without both parents from similar communities increases the likelihood of jail time –, public housing, welfare, and similar life experiences did not increase this likelihood only the lack of the presence of two biological parents. [23] The situation has become so critical that during the days of slavery a black child was more likely to grow up living with both parents than today.[24]

Source.
Yep, Ol’LBJ sure did a number on black Americans, and the pen he handed MLK on the signing of the Civil Rights Act must have been dipped in acid.

Now for Obambi’s speech. He is rather good at speechifying, at least the delivery, and not it’s vacuous content.

We have a deficit in this country when there is Scooter Libby justice for some and Jena justice for others; when our children see nooses hanging from a schoolyard tree today, in the present, in the twenty-first century.

Source.
I could Fisk about 75% of his rambling, but I’ll just focus on this section, and all of the imagery based on false information.
Because of his vagueness, one his left with the impression that Scooter’s justice is either acceptable or unacceptable. That’s a neat trick, and for my part, Scooter clearly got the shaft, did absolutely nothing wrong, the Judge knew early on that it was Richard Armitage who leaked Plame’s name to Novak, yet allowed this miscarriage of justice to continue, until Scooter made a false statement based on a faulty recollection. Scooter hasn’t been exonerated, pardoned, or had his record expunged, as it should be, only his jail time commuted. So, saying Scooter Libby justice is saying the equivalent of a miscarriage of justice.
That is in stark contrast to the Jena 6. By Obambi’s sermon speech, we could believe the same about Scooter Libby justice, only from my view, the Jena 6 skated for their crime of brutally beating Justin Barker. Of course Obambi is speechifying about injustice, but not for those who are really the unjust. The Lame Stream Media and the race baiters were the ones to shape the story to fit their template, and that is what B-HO is talking about. No one wants to acknowledge the real story about a group of punks jumping a young man and brutally beating him, but that the criminals were charged (appropriately) too severely for their crimes. The myths of Jena persist, of which there are at least twelve, and B-HO couldn’t resist using his empty rhetoric and stunning imagery to illustrate what an empty suit he truly is.
She shrieks, and he bellows, what a lovely pair they are.

Left by no2liberals on January 21st, 2008 at 8:19 pm

Oh, and based on numerous sources, despite some clearly Marxist statements MLK made, he was a Republican. As was James Farmer, one of the student debaters from Wiley College, which is in my home town, and is featured in the movie “The Great Debaters.” Mr. Farmer was the one who sued UT Law School to allow black Americans to attend, and founded the Congress on Racial Equality, a conservative organization.

Left by no2liberals on January 21st, 2008 at 8:26 pm

One more link on LBJ, that I forgot to add above.
Such a charming man.
/s
And don’t even get me started on Lady Bird, she’s from my hometown too, as is Bill Moyers. At least we can be proud of George Foreman and Y.A. Tittle.

Left by no2liberals on January 21st, 2008 at 8:53 pm