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Obama Compares Himself to Martin Luther King
White House dossier ^ | August 14, 2011, 12:15 pm | Keith Koffler

Posted on 08/14/2011 10:59:03 AM PDT by Young Werther

At a small, exclusive New York City fundraiser Thursday night featuring the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Obama compared himself and his agenda to that of Martin Luther King Jr.

And now that King has his own memorial on the Mall I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times. There was a decade that followed the great successes of Birmingham and Selma in which he was just struggling, fighting the good fight, and scorned, and many folks angry. But what he understood, what kept him going, was that the arc of moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. But it doesn’t bend on its own. It bends because all of us are putting our hand on the arc and we are bending it in that direction. And it takes time. And it’s hard work. And there are frustrations.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: education; gwynethpaltrow; harveyweinstein; history; martinlutherkingjr; mlk; newyork; newyorkcity; obama; race
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To: Young Werther
I think he should compare himself to Ronald McDonald.


21 posted on 08/14/2011 11:28:28 AM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: Young Werther

Potential “Martin Luther Obama, Jr.” quotes:

“Ask not what you con do for your country but what your country can do for you”

“I have a dream that my two little children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character.”


22 posted on 08/14/2011 11:30:48 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Young Werther
This is what the Narcissist in Chief sees when he stares into his mirror....

23 posted on 08/14/2011 11:36:06 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: ken21

Illusions of granduer from an imposter in the Oval Office who cannot even operate a lemonade stand.


24 posted on 08/14/2011 11:40:01 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Young Werther

What a travesty...is he seeking a pity party?


25 posted on 08/14/2011 11:42:09 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: Young Werther

I have something that a dog left in my yard that compares much closer to FUBO than anything else I can think of


26 posted on 08/14/2011 11:43:29 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Hoping to have some change left)
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To: Young Werther

MLK liked women. BHO likes ?


27 posted on 08/14/2011 11:46:21 AM PDT by 11johara28
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To: tsowellfan

It’s ironic, a white man led the way to free the slaves. A black man is going to enslave the white man.


28 posted on 08/14/2011 12:02:18 PM PDT by DownInFlames
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To: Young Werther

Weeeeelllll, granted, they’re both African-Americans, but I’d say that’s where the comparison ends.


29 posted on 08/14/2011 12:02:40 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: 11johara28

barry soetoro will always be nothing but barry soetoro. Worthless, lazy, affirmative action sissified punk.


30 posted on 08/14/2011 12:06:38 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: Young Werther
I bet this IS what this POS sees....


31 posted on 08/14/2011 12:08:17 PM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: Young Werther
Obama Compares Himself to Martin Luther King-- At a small, exclusive New York City fundraiser Thursday night featuring the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Obama compared himself and his agenda to that of Martin Luther King Jr.

These people are so full of shit.

Has anyone reached Dr. Alveda King for a comment?

32 posted on 08/14/2011 12:17:01 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Sarah Palin -Thaddeus McCotter 2012)
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33 posted on 08/14/2011 12:26:08 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: Young Werther
Obama Compares Himself to Martin Luther King

It's a really old trick but it's all Obama and his supporters have this time around.

2008 was Obama b.s. like hope and change, duped dummies, and $$$$$$$$$$

Now that he's proven how incompetent he is the only thing he's got are the Civil Rights industry's patented screams of Ra-a-a-a-a-cism!!

His claim means nothing more than we should expect to be subjected to 24/7 attempts to rattle Americans with screeching and caterwauling accusing us of racism!

Conservative black Americans will of course be condemned as "race traitors."

I've been through this crap from about 1960 to.. well I guess, now.

34 posted on 08/14/2011 12:32:21 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Young Werther
As distasteful as Obama's self comparison to King was, he was hardly the true blue solid conservative some on this thread are claiming...

And who was Martin King? In 1955 he was a big-dream utopian who euphemistically identified himself as an “anti-capitalist.” He was, in truth, a starry-eyed Marxist who only four years earlier had written this personal manifesto:
“…I am conviced [sic] that capitalism has seen its best days in American [sic], and not only in America, but in the entire world. It is a well known fact that no social institute [sic] can survive when it has outlived its usefullness [sic]. This, capitalism has done. It has failed to meet the needs of the masses.

“We need only to look at the underlying developements [sic] of our society. There is a definite revolt by, what Marx calls, ‘the preletarian’, [sic] against the bourgeoise [sic]…. What will eventually happen is this, labor will become so power [sic] (this was certainly evidenced in the recent election) that she will be able to place a president in the White House. This will inevitably bring about a nationalization of industry. That will be the end of capitalism. . . there is a definite move away from capitalism, whether we conceive of it as conscious or unconscious Capitalism finds herself like a losing football team in the last quarter trying types of tactics to survive.”

Martin King wrote this drivel at a time when communist totalitarians were condemning billions of people to lives of poverty, mediocrity and fear. The FBI had good reason to be concerned that someone who was so foolish as to embrace the false promise of Marxism might become the charismatic leader of millions of poorly educated and discontented black folks. Martin King was forever prattling about an imagined link between the needs of American blacks and the anti-colonial struggles of people in the Third World. King surrounded himself with dedicated Communists. King’s advisor Hunter Pitts (Jack) O’Dell was a veteran Communist Party organizer in New Orleans. Martin King’s advisor Stanley Levison was a financier for the Communist Party. King’s most trusted advisor and strategist Bayard Rustin began his activism with the Young Communist League.

exerpted from "Rosa Parks Reexamined by Thomas Clough
35 posted on 08/14/2011 12:35:41 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Young Werther
The only one he hasn't compared himself to so far is Chamberlain and Ghandi.
36 posted on 08/14/2011 12:45:17 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (We kneel to no prince but the Prince of Peace)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

MLK was a Republican like all blacks until the Kennedy phone call in 1960 that was heavily politicized. Even though the black ministers endorsed Nixon, MLK was neutral, but favored Kennedy because of the phone call to MLK’s wife while he was in jail.


37 posted on 08/14/2011 12:54:17 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: 353FMG

MLK was also not a Muzzie lovin Commie.


38 posted on 08/14/2011 1:17:59 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Young Werther

Martin Luther King was a consistent opponent of war. Obama, by contrast, is wall-street funded warmonger.


39 posted on 08/14/2011 1:20:40 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Young Werther

When the Narcissist in the Oval Office who doesn’t know who he is finally compares himself to the DEVIL, then he will be correct and I will believe him.


40 posted on 08/14/2011 1:34:43 PM PDT by CitizenM (He who is silent is understood to consent)
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