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IBD ^ | January 14, 2008

[Kaslin]

Racial Politics: Hillary Clinton gives credit for the 1964 Civil Rights Act to President Lyndon Johnson, while Barack Obama accuses the wife of the "first black president" of rewriting history. Actually, they both are.

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In 2001, President Bill Clinton was honored as the nation's "first black president" by the Congressional Black Caucus. Ironically, his co-president and now Sen. Hillary Clinton is trying mightily to keep Sen. Barack Obama from becoming the genuine article, and both have become embroiled in a controversy over race and who should get credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The brouhaha began when Obama took exception to Hillary telling Fox News' Major Garrett: "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964." Mrs. Clinton added: "It took a president to get it done."

Obama said he found Clinton's comments about King to be ill-advised and unfortunate, suggesting they diminished King's achievement. Clinton accused Obama of injecting race into the campaign, saying he had distorted for political gain her comments about Martin Luther King's role in the civil rights movement.

If Obama wanted to get the record straight, he might have noted it was white southern Democrats who held the fire hoses, unleashed the police dogs and stood in the schoolhouse door. If Hillary wanted to be historically correct, she could have noted that the Civil Rights Act wouldn't have been possible without GOP leadership.

[Soliton]

"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964." Mrs. Clinton added: "It took a president to get it done."

They keep quoting this without mentioning that Hillary supported Goldwater and not LBJ in 1964. If she had her way the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would have never passed.

[Don Corleone]

who should get credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Republicans...if the truth be told.

[Ann Archy]

." They keep quoting this without mentioning that Hillary supported Goldwater and not LBJ in 1964. If she had her way the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would have never passed.

OMG!!! REPEAT!!! REPEAT and put on EVERY thread !!! Good thinking!!