The Emotionally And Politically Bankrupt Left Was Not Happy Today

Any movement that can bring from 300 - 500 thousand men, women and children to Washington is a significant one - an American one. That was as true on August 28th, 1963, as it was today, even if it took time for all of America to interpret Martin Luther King, Jr's Dream.

But despite being American, today's left can't access the dreams of the majority of Americans. The news and events of the past year have identified them as the out of touch minority most of us always knew they were. They haven't gotten near as much as they wanted to from Obama. Yet, America is already rejecting him for whatever amount he gave them at all.

Think Progress attempts to sterilize today of any emotion. No surprise, it is always and only about politics to the Left, even when they are winning: Political Rally Or Not? We Report, You Decide.

Crooks and Liars pretends to sleep through it. But I gather they're too frightened for much sleep, otherwise, they wouldn't attempt to cover themselves with the race card: Snoring Honor: Beck's big rally just a long-winded and boring sermon. And boy, was the crowd white.

Bob Herbert at the New York Times is mortified that the dream King offered to all of America might slip a blacks and progressives only grasp that has turned it more into a nightmare, than a dream. He doesn't want it to actually become America's dream, as King intended. It does too much to empower Herbert's politics for him to want that. Today, Herbert's dream, stolen from King, has nothing to do with equality. It's been twisted into a superficial and often ugly means of gaining and holding onto political power.

Hundreds of thousands of people in DC and no doubt more all across America were better than Bob Herbert today, though he'll never admit it. Who, really, is the ignorant, divisive, pathetic figure here? It's a rhetorical question, one with a rather obvious answer given the disparity in tone between Herbert and Beck and Palin. And I'm not even a big fan of Beck's.

America is better than Glenn Beck. For all of his celebrity, Mr. Beck is an ignorant, divisive, pathetic figure.

Talking Points Memo scrambles for whatever angle it can come up with to diminish the event, humor, accusation, division, the usual tactics. But that's all they are and there's barely any emotion or energy in them, as is the case across nearly all of the Left today.

They don't have a ticket to the party and, by and large, when it comes to the type of vision for America Restoring Honor represented today, they are politically and emotionally bankrupt. They can't afford a ticket and wouldn't buy one, even if they could. They invested all their capital in 2006 and 2008 with Obama. Now, a year and a half into Obama's term, four years after taking the House, it is looking very much like a losing bet. And the party that is America at its best is moving ... and moving on without them.

Man, it must suck to be them and miss such a wonderful show. But that's entertainment!

Comments

[Sissy Willis]

I'm not a total fan of Beck's either, though some of my best online friends are. As I twittered earlier, you don't have to agree with everything he says to be TOTALLY glad he's out there fighting the good fight. He may have a bit of Elmer Gantry in him stylewise, but unlike your typical charismatic evangelist, he actually believes in what he's selling!

[jorgxmckie]

I don't care for Beck. Having said that, I've done some crowd estimation in the past based on overhead shots, crowding factor, gridding, and random selection, and that estimate of 500,000 should be a lower bound. I couldn't see the whole crowd in the one good aerial shot I saw, but I'd be very surprised if there were much less than 700,000 or so.

You might want to look online for pics of things like "Hong Kong marathon" where they are *very* policed, we know the upper bound for the number [racers are numbered], and we know the dimensions of the area in which they're crowded. It' interesting to see how small a space you can cram 50,000 runners into. They tend to be packed at pretty much the highest density most people will allow.

[Ragspierre]

Hey, sewage...???

Nish-feratu...???

[X11B1P]

are liberals the only people self anointed to say something about King? Where was the left today or this week, where were their rallies and remembrances? Where were their 300-500 K gatherings to remember King and recognize veterans? The last time the left put more than 25K in DC was at a code pink rally. So see the difference? Protesting the war is good to the left, remembering King and honoring Veterans is bad to do if you are the left. So they sit at home and shoot spitballs because that is all they can do that is all they can ever do. So any lefty reading this go organize an event and lets see how may supporters you bring to DC to support raising taxes, rationing healthcare, blowing up the budget, and while you are at it throw a bone to the AA Community and say something nice about Malcolm X, because you sure as hell don’t give a damn about MLK - which was obvious today when Sharpton could barely muster 3K libs to his MLK event in DC today.

[Lightwave]

"They don't have a ticket to the party and, by and large, when it comes to the type of vision for America Restoring Honor represented today, they are politically and emotionally bankrupt."

Not only that, but today proved that liberals and liberlism in general is morally and spiritually bankrupt as well. For eighty years since FDR this country has been struggling under the yoke of "a government who can give you everything you want is large enough to take everything from you." Now we see the endpoint of the redistributionist, socialist, Alinsky left and brother, it isn't pretty.

The failed eighty-year experiment with big government liberalism began with the Great Depression. It will end with the Second Great Depression.

We take back the country in Novermber for good. Liberalism must be relegated to the dustbin of history...along with Liberals like Obama.

And thankfully it looks like the silent majority is silent no longer and is rising up.

[nishner]

I an understand why Tea Baggers want to claim Dr. King as their own. A movement with Glen Beck and Former Half Term Governor Sarah Palin as leaders definitely needs an upgrade. But if you actually bother to READ what Dr. King said, he's got pretty much zilch in common with The Tea Party. I'm gonna guess even dimwit Beck knows that, he just wants to try to horn in on Dr. King's "I have a dream speech". Beck's REAL dream, like Palin, is to line his pockets. Did he get in any Goldline commercials at the rally? And having a quitter like Palin evoke King's dream is a travesty.

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nisher.....

Learn to spell people's names idiot.

[X11B1P]

Whats so hard to understand about all men are created equal? I get it, King got it, Beck said it. Palin talked about Veterans -are you a veteran Nishner? If so thank you for your service - if not, we still have a war in Afghanistan you can enlist to go fight in under Obama. Oh and Beck raised 2 million for familes of fallen Veterans through this. Tell me nishner, how do you line your pockets. I guess you never do anything that benefits your bank account do you - just like Sharpton and Jackson they are all about helping out the black community and live on 54K a year like the average American family. I read the US Constitution and find you liberals have zero in common with it based on the legislation passed over the past two years - and libs are lining their pockets with tax dollars through bailouts and stimulus so wtf is your point.

[Ragspierre]

Well, and AFTER learning to spell...

get a new line of BS. Please.

Beck and Palin have more in common with King than nish-feratu does. They are not racists.

Tell us, nish...what's Rev. Jesse worth? How 'bout Rev. Al?

Please, you racist puke...

[unseen]

Beck and Palin speak to 500,000 at DC and 500,000 live online and Cspan while POTUS rides a girl's bike on vacation.

anyone else see the problem here?

[nishner]

They just like to sneak up to the edge and peer over. "Dog whistle politics" it's called. Both Palin and Beck play it.

"libs are lining their pockets with tax dollars through bailouts and stimulus so wtf is your point."

TARP, which Ms. Palin and Beck both supported, was done under Bush, not Obama.

[Ragspierre]

What's this Ms. Palin BS, nish...??

She's married, and proud of it. It is that YOUR PC crap showing...???

A lot of people were for TARP when they were being buffaloed by all the "brights" who were predicting that the world would end unless it was passed. (Like all BIG GOVERNMENT types, they LIED).

So...??? Did it put money in Palin or Beck's pockets, 'cause we DAAAAAMN sure know lots of the Obami who got STINKING rich off it?

[X11B1P]

"TARP, which Ms. Palin and Beck both supported, was done under Bush, not Obama."

nishenr - did you not know that Obama was a US Senator and voted for TARP, as well as POTUS he signed all of the rest of the bailouts - spending more money in his first 6 months than all of the Presidents combined going back to Washington? Come on man - you have got to bring it a bit stronger than this or Dan might boot your azz for being a complete moron - I guess I need to go easy on you from here on out - not doing so would be like moving the furniture in a blind man's house while he is sleeping.

[Ragspierre]

"Dan might boot your azz for being a complete moron."

That

boat

sailed.

[michigan]

Beck has done something politicians promise to do and few accomplish; and that’s bringing people together. No contemporary politician has this kind of message that inspires and motivates people, not even our delusional Dear Leader. He must be drooling with envy after this, instead of the ideological fear that should be consuming him.

[X11B1P]

ragspierre - I know and honestly I don't know if Dan woud boot someone for being a fool, I think he enjoys it.

[X11B1P]

good night all - nishner, don't forget you can go blind doing that!

[Ragspierre]

X11B1P,

foils are FUN...and useful for demonstration purposes. Yes?

[nishner]

Yeah, fixing the Bush Depression is hard work and is going to take awhile. Bush, Worst President Ever, left behind one clusterf***.

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Looks like nishner is having trouble with his spelling again....

[Jim Ryan]

"Please make it be Bush's depression, not Obama's, Harry's and Nancy's!... Please make it be Bush's...it's not the debt, regulation and taxes, it's Bush...Please make it be Bush's depression... " Cries self to sleep.

[Comanche Voter]

Nishner, I can think of a couple of things that Dr. King had in common with Sarah Palin and a good chunk of the Tea Party. As his niece said at the Rally today, MLK Sr., MLK Jr. and MLK Jr's. brother were ALL Republicans. But then a numbskull like you doesn't let anything like a few facts get in the way of opening your mouth without engaging your brain.

[Ragspierre]

Oh, yeah, and that Freddie and Fannie thing had NOTHING to do with the financial melt-down...

Dream on, nish-feratu...

Dream on...

BIG GOVERNMENT ruins.

Markets innovate, and raise the standard of living.

[MDr]

"they are politically and emotionally bankrupt."

I would have included morally and ethically. I believe they were part of the point, Beck was trying to make.

[T]

I found Al Sharpton, I won't use Reverend, and his minions to be so hypocritical in his rantings today. Here is what I think has happened and why they are so crazy angry at Restore America.

People like Al not so Sharp ton, and Jessee Jackson, along with the NAACP, have abused and twisted MLK's message. They have kept racism alive and kept the black people as "victims" so that They could become rich and "important". They are angry, any white person could even invoke the name of MLK because, they claim he belongs "to them". "They" (code word for whitey) can't have him. Al not so Sharpton plans to "reclaim" (code word for take back)MLK from whitey.

Well, I believe MLK's "I Have A Dream" speech, was inspired by God Almighty through MLK. The so called "Civil Rights" "reverends", "leaders" and "Organizers" just found out what happens when you take a man's work, that was inspired by God to unite people of all race and creed, and hijack it for your own greedy purposes; the privilege of being the messengers is taken away from you and given to those whose hearts are humble and who actually BELIEVED MLK's message, that "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL" and the dream of a day when "MEN WOULD NOT BE JUDGED BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, BUT BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER".

The light has exposed the darkness and the "CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER" that for so long was disguised as "civil rights", today represented hatred and divisiveness. The Al not so Sharptons of the movement have only sought to keep the black man as victims in order to gain wealth and recognition for themselves.

Now the chains of racism can be loosed, not by these "wolves in sheep's clothing", but by those who have a "servant's heart".

[Gary Ogletree]

A troll wandered in. Ignore the fool.

[SDN]

Hey nishner, notice how the deficits didn't really take off until the Copperheads got control of Congress?

That's OK, lying is the nature of Copperheads.

[gary gulrud]

"Beck and Palin speak to 500,000 at DC...while POTUS rides a girl's bike on vacation.

anyone else see the problem here?"

How are those inaction Zero dolls doing?

[mike191]

By Monday, Nishner will believe that the pictures of the crowds were photoshopped.

[salvage]

>Any movement that can bring from 300 - 500 thousand men, women and children to Washington is a significant one

Sure but what has that got to do with the Teabag mob watching Beck and Palin babble on?? There were less than 100 thousand.

Oh wait, this is going to be one of those wingnut deals where you ignore facts and reality because you don't like what it is isn't it?

Reality like outside of the Teabaggers Palin and Beck are complete jokes?

[X11B1P]

"Oh wait, this is going to be one of those wingnut deals where you ignore facts and reality because you don't like what it is isn't it?"

We are aware of the facts and reailty - are you, or are you in denial - read the article if you have the balls?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/26/AR2010082605233.html

[Nishner]

King a Republican. That's funny!

King: "There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism."
King: Against the Viet Nam War.
King: Pro-union

[salvage]

-- Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness and debt, as represented by the Tea Party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.

Well it's rather odd that the mobs were screaming about this stuff when Bush was in power, he expanded government both in size and cost. The racial compontent of the teabaggers comes in the form of the birther movement and people screeching about his Muslim "seed".

-- Disgust and alarm with the federal government's unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.

Once again a problem that was quite real under Bush and once again the mob's were silent during his administration and yes, it is nativism, how is it not?.

-- Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.

Marriage isn't being redefined, it's a contract between two people but because people like you think fags aren't people they shouldn't be allowed to enter into those contracts. It should be noted that there are several nations who now recognize same sex marriages and do you know what this "most radical redefinition of marriage in human history" effect has been?

Nothing.

So the opposition to it cannot be rooted in any sort of logical or rational reason the only thing left is because you hate fags you want to keep them as second class in society as possible. Darn those Founding Fathers for making that sort of thing illegal!

-- Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.

Well yeah, obviously.

[Ragspierre]

Well, King WAS a registered Republican. Look it up, stupid.

There were also several iterations of Dr. King, just as there were of Malcolm X.

King, like Gandhi, got a lot right, and a few things terribly wrong.

It's call "humanity".

[Ragspierre]

sewage, you outdo yourself for shear perfidy and transcending STOOOOOOOOOOPID today.

Take another half hour, and provide us all another demonstration of the "thinking" of the Collective.

Please...???

[Ragspierre]

"Darn those Founding Fathers for making that sort of thing illegal!"

If you are referring to sodomy, you have a point.

If you are referring to "marriage" being between a man and a woman...with various restrictions on THAT, btw...that is ALL the Founding Fathers recognized as legal.

Please... Your are doing EXCELLENT work this morning...

[Ragspierre]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F08%2F29%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2F29beck.html&ei=wYh6TMjyAcT7lwfQ5KDtCw&usg=AFQjCNF2AJwI5hdtfgxlAI0r22a7D7pnkg&sig2=XO7LVgM2VZD5vRIqhZUx7Q

300,000 per NBC, dittoed by the NYT.

[Ragspierre]

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/349176

Which cites to two "feminist" Collectivists.

That'll get your head-swivel over-heated, sewage...!!!!

My own little roundup of the Collectivist reportage on Restoring Honor....

http://hindenblog1.blogspot.com/2010/08/burn-statisticians.html

[salvage]

Becky Benson, 56, traveled from Orlando, Fla., because, she said, “we believe in Jesus Christ, and he is our savior.” Jesus, she said, would not have agreed with what she called the redistribution of wealth in the form of the economic stimulus package, bank bailouts and welfare. “You cannot sit and expect someone to hand out to you,” she said. “You don’t spend your way out of debt.”

This is the perfect Teabagger; layers of ignorance.

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Rags...

Good article...good blog!

[Ragspierre]

Ad rem,

Thanks. Very much. Please stop by often, and comment. (Which is too hard...but we're working on that).

[nishner]

I already looked it up. You, on the other hand, appear to be Google-challenged. Let me help:

Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. Registered as a Republican, switched in 1960 to being a Democrat and supported Jimmy Carter for president. He was head of the Atlanta NAACP and helped fight to raise teacher salaries. Hint: In the 60s, the Racist Dixiecrats started moving from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There is no record of him ever registering as a Republican. Taylor Branch, who spend a good part of his life researching King, never found any evidence of it. And his positions prior to his assassination are total anathema to conservatives. For example:

He supported the ruling against prayer in school, thought Reagan was dangerous, supported unions, and was a good friend of the Kennedy family.

King on Ronald Reagan: "When a Hollywood performer, lacking distinction even as an actor, can become a leading war hawk candidate for the presidency, only the irrationalities induced by war psychosis can explain such a turn of events."

King on school prayer: http://tinyurl.com/2avhxl5

Oh yeah, know who was a registered Republican? Earl Warren! And who was a registered Democrat? Ronald Reagan!

[Ragspierre]

It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and now socialism.

It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950s and 1960s.

During the civil rights era of the 1960s, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools. President Eisenhower also appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation. Much is made of Democrat President Harry Truman's issuing an Executive Order in 1948 to desegregate the military. Not mentioned is the fact that it was Eisenhower who actually took action to effectively end segregation in the military.

Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans passed the civil rights laws of the 1860s, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks. Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's fist goals and timetables. Although affirmative action now has been turned by the Democrats into an unfair quota system, affirmative action was begun by Nixon to counter the harm caused to blacks when Democrat President Woodrow Wilson in 1912 kicked all of the blacks out of federal government jobs.

Few black Americans know that it was Republicans who founded the Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unknown also is the fact that Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois was key to the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965. Not mentioned in recent media stories about extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is the fact that Dirksen wrote the language for the bill. Dirksen also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing. President Lyndon Johnson could not have achieved passage of civil rights legislation without the support of Republicans.

Critics of Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater, who ran for President against Johnson in 1964, ignore the fact that Goldwater wanted to force the Democrats in the South to stop passing discriminatory laws and thus end the need to continuously enact federal civil rights legislation.

Those who wrongly criticize Goldwater also ignore the fact that Johnson, in his 4,500 State of the Union Address delivered on Jan. 4, 1965, mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only 35 words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Then in 1967, showing his anger with Dr. King's protest against the Vietnam War, Johnson referred to Dr. King as "that Nigger preacher."

Contrary to the false assertions by Democrats, the racist "Dixiecrats" did not all migrate to the Republican Party. "Dixiecrats" declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican because the Republican Party was know as the party for blacks. Today, some of those "Dixiecrats" continue their political careers as Democrats, including Robert Byrd, who is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.

Another former "Dixiecrat" is former Democrat Sen. Ernest Hollings, who put up the Confederate flag over the state Capitol when he was the governor of South Carolina. There was no public outcry when Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd praised Byrd as someone who would have been "a great senator for any moment," including the Civil War. Yet Democrats denounced then-Senate GOP leader Trent Lott for his remarks about Sen. Strom Thurmond (R.-S.C.). Thurmond was never in the Ku Klux Klan and defended blacks against lynching and the discriminatory poll taxes imposed on blacks by Democrats. If Byrd and Thurmond were alive during the Civil War, and Byrd had his way, Thurmond would have been lynched.

The 30-year odyssey of the South switching to the Republican Party began in the 1970s with President Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy," which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get Christians in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share their values and were still discriminating against their fellow Christians who happened to be black. Georgia did not switch until 2002, and some Southern states, including Louisiana, are still controlled by Democrats.

Today, Democrats, in pursuit of their socialist agenda, are fighting to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats. Examples of how egregiously Democrats act to keep blacks in poverty are numerous.

After wrongly convincing black Americans that a minimum wage increase was a good thing, the Democrats on August 3 kept their promise and killed the minimum wage bill passed by House Republicans on July 29. The blockage of the minimum wage bill was the second time in as many years that Democrats stuck a legislative finger in the eye of black Americans. Senate Democrats on April 1, 2004, blocked passage of a bill to renew the 1996 welfare reform law that was pushed by Republicans and vetoed twice by President Clinton before he finally signed it. Since the welfare reform law expired in September 2002, Congress had passed six extensions, and the latest expired on June 30, 2004. Opposed by the Democrats are school choice opportunity scholarships that would help black children get out of failing schools and Social Security reform, even though blacks on average lose $10,000 in the current system because of a shorter life expectancy than whites (72.2 years for blacks vs. 77.5 years for whites).

Democrats have been running our inner-cities for the past 30 to 40 years, and blacks are still complaining about the same problems. More than $7 trillion dollars have been spent on poverty programs since Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty with little, if any, impact on poverty. Diabolically, every election cycle, Democrats blame Republicans for the deplorable conditions in the inner-cities, then incite blacks to cast a protest vote against Republicans.

In order to break the Democrats' stranglehold on the black vote and free black Americans from the Democrat Party's economic plantation, we must shed the light of truth on the Democrats. We must demonstrate that the Democrat Party policies of socialism and dependency on government handouts offer the pathway to poverty, while Republican Party principles of hard work, personal responsibility, getting a good education and ownership of homes and small businesses offer the pathway to prosperity.

[Ragspierre]

Pro union: King

OK, I held an "O" card in the Brotherhood of Operating Engineers. That meant "organizer", BTW.

National Socialists were pro-union, too.

Anti-Vietnam War: King

OK, I was a CO in 1968, facing 5 years in the Federal pen. (I didn't run, or make a special pleading, as did Clinton). I later volunteered and served honorably during the close of the war, when I had no chance of being drafted.

Pat Buchanan is anti-Iraq War

Socialist agenda: King

Before I grew up, and learned how to think critically, I was enamored of that corrupt idea, too.

National Socialists...and a lot of other killers...were for socialism, too. So was Gandhi, and India is STILL paying for that folly.

Anti-Reagan: King

So were a LOT of the Old Guard GOP.

If King was a "good friend" of the Kennedy family, he was a fool. They worked, voted, and plotted against him.

As I said before, King was a human being.

[Phillep Harding]

Thank you, Ragspierre. Quite a chunk of info not very well publicized. I recall hearing most of that at different times, but forgot it. (Nixon and the "Southern Strategy" was news.

The Minimum Wage Law, combined with legally required expenses, has reduced the number of jobs availible. One or the other has to get cut.

[X11B1P]

fishner and slaveage – to pile on to what Ragspierre, here is a timeline and history about your friendly neighborhood racists democratic party:

◦Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
◦Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
◦Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
◦Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
◦Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
◦Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
◦Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
◦Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
◦Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
◦Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
◦Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
◦Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
◦Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
◦Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
◦Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
◦Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
◦Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
◦Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
◦Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
◦Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
◦Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
◦Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
◦Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
◦Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
◦Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
◦Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
◦Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
◦Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
◦Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
◦Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
◦Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
◦Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
◦Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.

[Ragspierre]

And there is clear, empirical evidence that Black Americans were STRONGLY realizing the American dream during the 50s and 60s...in the face of Jim Crow and Northern discrimination.

With the imposition of the Great Society, that trend was sharply turned down, and the destruction of the Black family began.

It is also a FACT that some of King's strongest allies were WHITE SOUTHERN business and community leaders.

As with slavery, the handwriting was on the wall with respect to racial discrimination.

Today, we have a regime that is working daily to enshrine racial discrimination...and other types...in law and regulation. It is a goal of the Collective.

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OT...Beck is on Fox New Sunday saying he'll have aeriel photography shortly that will provide proof as to the numbers in attendance.

[nishner]

Yes, it's true. Many Southern Dems in the 50s were racists. But parties, like people, change. And the 60s started a reversal of the two parties. Go read about Nixon's Southern Strategy. And the Republicans that helped pass Civil Rights legislation would be RINOs to Tea Baggers.

If you're going to copy and post full articles of other people's work, you might want to at least provide the link, otherwise someone might think you're a plagiarist. Again, let me help:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

Two words: Southern Strategy.

Congrats, you, again, proved Goodwin's Law.

[Ragspierre]

"Republicans that helped pass Civil Rights legislation would be RINOs to" TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY Partiers.

That's a lie.

And you are a liar.

Thank you for correcting my omission. I would not want to be accused of what we know Dr. King did in his dissertation.

Two words: Collectivist history.

You have a problem with the truth, nish-feratu? (Silly question...)