Was Hillary Dismissing MLK?

Ask yourself this question: Would you like to work for an Obama-type guy, who is upbeat and positive, is always coming up with new ways of doing things, belives in coming out ahead of the competition but not beating them down, and constantly challenges team members to be energetic and imaginative? Or would you see that guy as an annoyance, a nerdy dreamer who's a thorn in your side as you try to put in a simple 8-hour day? Would you rather work for a Hillary-type, who is a micro-manager, hard-driving competitor, who has much more experience than you have, prefers to hand out tasks rather than hear new ideas from her people, who wants things done her way, but blames those under her when her way doesn't achieve success? I've worked for both types of people--haven't you all?? I'm making no comment about civil rights here--but--whatever the endeavor, I would rather work for MLK or Obama Enterprises than Hillary-Corp. How about you?

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.

DC Hillary is right OBAMA wasn't even born when JFK/LJB were in office or when MLK made his historic speech but I was. JFK, RFK and MLK is the legacy of a younger generation and OBAMA should invoke them.

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.

Maybe you folks who claim that Obama was comparing himself to JFK and MLK should take remedial reading. Listen up: he cited JFK and MLK as EXAMPLES of leaders who verbally projected a vision for some audacious goal, where those projected visions were important factors in igniting the realization of those goals. He was NOT COMPARING HIS ACHIEVEMENTS WITH JFK's OR MLK's; he was arguing that compelling verbal pictures of big visions is an important function that words, well used, can fulfill. Barack made this point to rebut Hillary's claim that words mean nothing and that "experience" is the real and only thing that counts. YOU GET IT NOW folks? Good. Those who mistakenly charged Barack with arrogance owe him an apology. If you had read or listened to what he actually said with care, and if you were responsible enough to think about what he said you'd have avoided the error of accusing him of arrogance.
Shame on you.

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.

Wow, I'm kind of offended that Hillary would try to discredit MLK's legacy. I don't think its racist, but it is 100% desperate.

Not sure she was "dismissing" MLK...but she was certainly minimizing his role. Pretty amazing she'd be so stupod if u ask me.

Hillary's going through Kubler-Ross' five stages of dying a political death:

Denial and isolation: I'm the experienced one. He has no experience. Words don't mean anything. I have 35 years of experience.

Anger: He's no JFK or MLK!

YET TO HAPPEN
Bargaining: You're too young, you should let me have my chance!

Depression: People don't like me. They really don't like me!

Acceptance: I never should've acted like the Queen. I never should've acted like it was my coronation. I never should've let Bill screw around behind my back and acted like nothing happened. I never should've married the bum. I never should've lied so much.

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..."

I found it amusing that Obama would be talking about being raised by a single parent as if the really had it hard in his life. Here's a guy who never went to public school, got the best education money could buy, and tries to sound like one of the people. Wake up

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................

hillary just insulted MLK, JFK and Barack. She is losing her rational and getting desperate. And we want her finger on the red button in Washington? No way...i'll bet bin ladin is in his cave laughing his head off. Think he's scared of the crybaby now?
And, what did she mean when she said Barack hadn't done the 'spade work' to be president? What truly has she done besides ride her husbands coattails and enable him to humiliate her all the time?

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!

Hey Tapper? What about instead of questioning Hillary comments, why not challenging Obama's comparison to JFK and Martin Luther King? Is he in the same level? if so why? You should be more objective of your editorial notes here as you do with your comments on TV. It's clear Obama has an identity crisis, he is one day Lincoln, other JFK, other Martin Luther and next Osama?

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

Who remembers the Carter years?

I do!

Tapper?

Lots of false hope, big promises of change. What we got was an experienced, recession making, inept foreign affairs president.

What have a beer, go find Carter or Bush. But no. Not now. No.

--philip

Obama is the Carter for this generation.

If anything, how dare Obama compare himself to JFK. He is no JFK, RFK or MLK.

--philip

Hillary is right. People comparing Obama and worst he comparing himself to JFK or Dr. King is outrageous. Obama is nothing compared to them. I am a 4th generation of Black Americans and found his cockiness and words sometimes cynic and misleading. What does he knows about been a real African American? few years as a community service lawyer in Chicago dealing with unscrupulous landlords wont give him the reason to compare himself to Dr. King. He gotta stop!

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!