Posted on 01/18/2008 1:11:24 AM PST by Puzzleman
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But telling Obama to wait his turn is a tricky proposition. It sounds patronizing and condescending, awakening the kinds of racial grievances white liberals have spent half a century fanning -- only to find themselves now singed in the blowback, much to their public chagrin.
Who says there's no justice in this world?
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Exactly. Hillary's statement didn't make any sense to begin with. She was comparing herself with LBJ and Obama with King, but she didn't give any reason why Obama would not end up as president instead of herself.
IIRC what he actually said was that the Democratic party had lost the South for decades to come.
“The King-Johnson analogy is dead because the times are radically different. Today an African American can be in a position to wield the emancipation pen — and everything else that goes along with the presidency: from making foreign policy to renting out the Lincoln Bedroom (if one is so inclined). Why should African American dreams still have to go through white liberals?”
Good Question
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