I also think Clinton has been attacked unfairly for her remark that it took LBJ to sign the Civil Rights Act.
The retort was nonsensical on every level. If you accept the line of reasoning that Hippobottomus
wasn't sidelining the legacy of Dr. King, then you have to look into why it was brought up at all. Apparently her point was that it takes a president to enact change. Nevermind the fact that this change wouldn't have been on the table if not for Dr. King, but what exactly does she fucking think Obama is running for? Local ice cream man?
No. He's running for president. The same damned position she's gunning for. He'd be just as capable to enact legislation as her.
Now, as a response, it makes even less sense. It all started at the end of the New Hampshire debate, when she said that candidates should not be
“raising the false hopes of our country about what can be delivered...”. To which Obama responded with:
“How have we made progress in this country? Look, did John F. Kennedy look at the moon and say ‘Ah, it’s too far. We can’t do that. We need a reality check. Dr. King standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial: ‘You know, this dream thing, it’s a false hope. We can’t expect equality.’”To which she later reacts with:
"I would point to the fact that Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done..."Uhhhhhhh, let me get this straight. She claims that candidates shouldn't raise false hope. He responds that hope is a virtue for leadership (in so many words), citing Kennedy & MLK. She retorts that Kennedy was hopeful, but another president fulfilled the hope, and that it, uh, takes a president to do the job.
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Connecting the dots on as to
why Kennedy was unable to fulfill that hope during his administration illuminates the point Clinton was attempting to make. That Obama is going to be shot in the head.
The End.