Well put. Hillary really said nothing that should have been at all controversial; just that MLK had worked for social change but needed “partners in the political system” to enact laws supporting those changes. Insofar as MLK was not a legislator himself, it is hard to imagine how his ideas could have been enacted into law without such partners. But unfortunately—though typically—a few of HRC’s political adversaries in her own party decided to dishonestly raise a stink about how she had allegedly denigrated Dr. King by implying that LBJ was more responsible for the social changes of the ‘60s than MLK was (which she had not said), and also by allegely implying (which she had not) that blacks can only accomplish anything with the help of benevolent white overseers. While I disagree with HRC on any number of things and do not want her to be President (though Obama might be worse, for reasons having little to do with race), in this case she said nothing unreasonable, and all the fussing from Obama and Edwards is just shameful and shows how little of real merit they have to say.

Sure, she stated the obvious.... that in this country, with its dutiful slouch into Statist Giganticism.... that the State was required to sanction...to codify into law.... Martin Luther King’s efforts. That she might have “courageously breached” certain centrist political correctness codes is beside the point no matter how refreshing it might be to see a Clinton say anything at all provocative . The triangulations of the DLC were at work here again.

Candidate Clinton was simply trying to repeat, with different words, her cant that she..... a mere underclassman in the Senate and a governmental spouse before that......a textbook case carpetbagger..... is somehow a wizened oracle in government when compared against the young Mr. Obama. She essentially implied, knowingly or not that the darky should not be so uppity because massuh State was the only entity that could “give” the black man his freedom. It was just another day in paradise for this uber-Statist who has never met a Special Interest she did not like....or think could benefit her.

This woman has vaulted from utter obscurity to Front Page News on the back of a Consumptive State that has begun to eat its young. Together with her Republican “antagonists” and Democrat supporters, she is simply part of a Bunko operation that believes it is the font of wisdom and dispenser of freedoms.

You’ve got a lot better things to ponder and write about than this Establishment Statist Mr. Gottfried. Don’t waste your time here, there’s nothing to see but endless platitudes and a lust for power and adulation that knows no bounds. Sure, she’s human and possesses real feelings and genuine aspirations for helping her fellow citizen but don’t mistake her public expressions for any of these private reveries. Hers is a craft that is far closer to Soviet Propaganda than it is to the real sentiments of American Individualism.

No matter how sweetly they might bat their eyelashes and demurely weep, the Statist has one thing and one thing only in mind, the Power and Glory of the State and how it can line their pockets.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:

Despite the disaster that is today’s Republican Party, the Democrats are in even worse shape, with the party beginning to be horribly split between various, incompatible factions (even worse than the potential split of the factions in the Republican Party).

Within the Democrat Party there are now only three primary camps; the Single White Women, White male non-Southerners and the Negroes.  The Southern Man has pretty much left the party.  He is now trying to make his way through the Republican Party with the New England Liberals and wacky Protestants that dominate it.  As for the Democrats, there are approximately 40 million Single White Women in America, and ~40 million Negroes.  The Negroes need the vote of White non-Southern men to win even a nomination.  New Hampshire was proof that a Negro just can’t get those votes.  The non-Southern man understand that it is not the Negro alone that passes laws to get what they want, but politicians.  And there’s no one better at being a politician than Hillary Clinton.

However, even if Clinton and Osama were to get together on the same ticket, they just couldn’t win enough states to win the Electoral College.  The Democrat Party is a wreck, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Republicans start bending more and more regarding the Negro in order to get his vote.  Remember, it wasn’t long ago the Negro vote was a vote for Republicans, and also note that the average Negro holds much more conservative opinions than Single White women in general, and non-Southern men in particular.  If the Democrat Party rejects the Negro in favour of the Single White Woman, expect the Negro to be enticed enough to be brought over to the Republican Party.

The good and the bad of King and the Civil Rights Movement:

Good:
1. Got rid of Jim Crow

Bad:
1. instead of the proclaimed goal of getting rid of “race” and race consciousness, we’re more race conscious and racialist than ever, reinforced by the “therapeutic” state, as Paul Gottfried has so
rightly described.

2. reinforced Cultural Marxism, which ironically has tipped over into what I’ve called “Leftist Nationalism”

3. failed to address the cultural decadence that also came with the 60s and the resulting advance of the Lumpenproletariat. The overwhelming majority of First Blacks (an ethnic group, not a race) in 1950 were not Lumpenproles.

<<The overwhelming majority of First Blacks (an ethnic group, not a race) in 1950 were not Lumpenproles.>>

Absolutely correct, Mr Cundiff.  People today forget
just how “middle class” the Negro really was 60
years ago.

For example:

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Negro “Rosie Riveters”, seperate, but equal.  The
same could be said for the crime rates among the
Negro 50 years ago, as well as the marriage rate,
the divorce rate, and the bastard child rate.  Only
with Society’s Great Leap Forward of LBJ, was the
Negro destroyed both socially and economically.  The
same goes for my cousins in the Mountains; the
meth-heads, the child-less “fathers”, the woefully
ignorant, etc.  The Negro and the Hillbilly both
have something in common: they were destroyed by
“Big Government Programs”, “urban renewal”, the
Appalachian Regional Commission, “big business”,
etc.  They have made both the inner city of the
Negro and the Mountains of the Hillbilly a
“playground” for monied Yankees, Yuppies, Buppies,
and assorted other “Dumb Americans” (the kind you
see going to Dollywood).

It didn’t link for some reason, trying it again…

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The “#X” should be a % sign...a problem with these boards, apparently.

The cult of “equality” (as Sam Francis pointed out, a misnomer which conceals political power grabs by terminally aggrieved & oppressed minorities) has had significant impact beyond the shores of the USA.  In Canada, no major political party has ever forcefully condemned affirmative action (in Canuckistani terms: “employment equity"); indeed, a so-called “Tory” government under Brian Mulroney in the 80s imposed AA/EE on the nation. There was no popular outcry for this policy up to this time.

This was one US import which Canada could have done without!

I’ve learned to enjoy anticipating which piece of mind waste excreted by our public figures will be chosen by Dr. Gottfried for transformation into useful matter. This entry is a particularly pleasing result of such metamorphosis.

Western Europe in the 1970s would have impacted as strongly as it did on succeeding generations, if its promoters had not taken over their governments and imposed behavior modification on their fellow-citizens.

Whether in Europe or these United States, it was, overwhelmingly, Caucasian Male Christians who elected the Caucasian Male Christian Legislators who voted these (and feminist)laws into effect.

And we keep re-electing these men.

And, as Flack Catchers, we bow and scrape before the Mau Mau’s in the Academy and The Culture and keep apologising for being Caucasian, Male, and Christian (and by “we” I don’t mean me).

If it was not so damnably perverse, it’d be funny as hell.

Without LBJ and Ramsey Clark, MLKjr would have been--at worst--murdered, and at best a mere footnote in history…

Of course, the McGovern generation grew up hating LBJ, and thus the politiccal correctness surrounding his memory…

Nixon and IKE are also forgotten in the “official” version of the civil rights movement.

Ike is not totally forgotten. I listened to Huckabee praise his civil rights record on Hannity and Colmes just last night.

It is understandable that Hillary might try to divert our attention to non issues and appeal to bigotry to garner votes, and keep her neocon affiliation concealed.
It is understandable that the sychophant corporate media would play up this issue.
The above diversion is reminescent of the dance continuing in the balroom of the Titanic after it had met the iceberg.
May I suggest some more germaine issues we need to focus on this week:
-This week it became clear that the trillion $ bill for waging war in Iraq on behalf of Israel is bring on a depression like 1933, and no one mentioned Dr. Ron Pauls warnings in this regard.
-This week the stock market has started to tank in earnest.
-This week Citibank and other Financil pillars of the U.S. economy were being hawked to the Chinese and arabs to pay for Israel’s agenda.
-This week the Russian Chief of Staff warned the U.S. and Israel that they would use nuclear weapons “preemtively”
the next time they felt threatened.
-This week the chinese announced that there would be no sanctions against Iran.
-This week Ahmedinajed scorned the U.S and Israel as Bush cmae back from his failed attempt to foment war against Iran.
-This week the Russians delivered the 4th shipment of nuclear fuel to Iran.
As we witness the destruction of the U.S.’s economic, military, moral and diplomatic authority, Israel shut down power to Gaza’s hospitals, and we find it relevent to talk about Hillary’s deceits as if that was the happening of the week.
God help us.
In this election season we need to focus on the events unfolding that re-affirm what Dr. Ron Paul is telling us rather than burying his message while promoting Hillary, who along with the rest are more dangerous neocons than Bush.

Allen sed:  “...we find it relevent to talk about Hillary’s deceits as if that was the happening of the week...God help us.”

Hubba hubba! I agree. But frankly, THE issue for the Democrats, and the urban cosmopolitan sophisticates that dominate the media.

Nothing important gets reported on the corporate media. And nobody cares really...it’s like the old Soviet Union here, the media limited to official pronouncements approved and vetted by the Communist Party.

The US looks like Soviet Russia, especially in terms of productivity that doesn’t support it’s old world ambitions to spread “revolution”.

Republicans now sound like old Russian Commies.

Now that’s reason to pray that God help us.