Friday, January 25, 2008

Open [Political] Power

Hillary Clinton: Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done

Bill Moyers: There was nothing in that quote about race. It was an historical fact, an affirmation of the obvious....
Moyers was and is absolutely correct. There is nothing in that quote about race. It is all about power. Ms Clinton was speaking of the power of the office of President, to which she aspires, not the power, the real power, of a pacifist black pastor.

When Dr. King's achievements are debased by such a callus and uncaring perspective then the character of the speaker is drawn into serious question. This is just another attempt by the Democrat political machine to sway fickle American opinion.

Perhaps Ms Clinton should speak to the viability of a white female's ability to affect change in these United States of America's good-old-boy-person political environment. Obviously this is not a question of gender. This is a question of power.

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