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Entry: One Cheer for Hil Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/one_cheer_for_hil#14492 Post contents: 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 <i>more</i> 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. Sent at: 2009 01 07