Odious Obama's Path to Hell

[im10ashus]

In the spring of 1967, after he went public with his strong and principled opposition to the Vietnam War, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was approached by liberal and left politicos to consider running for the United States Presidency. King turned the activists down, saying that he preferred to think of himself "as one trying desperately to be the conscience of all the political parties, rather being a political candidate -- I've just never thought of myself as a politician." (1)

The minute he threw his hat in the American winner-take-all presidential ring, King knew, he would be encouraged to compromise his increasingly leftist and fundamentally moral message against racism, social inequality, and militarism. Reflecting his chastening confrontation with the concentrated black poverty and class oppression in the "liberal" urban North and the horrors of US policy in Southeast Asia, King had come to radical conclusions. "For years I have labored with the idea of refining the existing institutions of the society, a little change here, a little change there," he told journalist David Halberstam that spring. "Now I feel quite differently. I think you've got to have a reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values."

The black freedom movement, King told a crowd at UC Berkeley, had shifted from civil rights to human rights, involving "a struggle for genuine equality" that "demands a radical redistribution of economic and political power." It would be hard to find mass political support for this goal, King said, "because many white Americans would like to have a nation which is simultaneously a democracy for White America and a dictatorship over Black Americans." (2)

By this time, King had identified the US government as "the greatest purveyor of violence" in the world and denounced US support for US-investment-friendly Third World dictatorship, all part of what he called "the triple evils that are interrelated": racism, economic exploitation , and militarism. (3)

cont'd...

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2006/06/odious-obamas-path-to-hell.html

[Kagemusha]

1. So Obama is now the Democratic Party's bete noir?

No, seriously... it's like Lieb fell off the radar or something.

[ContraBass Black]

2. "We should encourage evangelicals to vote for us."

"Blasphemy! Off with his head! Burn him at the stake!"

For a few minutes, I thought this was all a joke.

[rinsd]

3. Yeeeeeeaaaaa...more circular bomb throwing.

Wow Obama's not MKL jr Thanks for the clue.

And why? because he actually became a Senator and as such realizes that the rhetoric that gets the blood flowing on Indymedia won't get you elected dog catcher. Yeah if only Obama had adopted this rhetorical style before his election. Then we could have been treated to Alan Keyes....Senator. But this author doesn't care. He just likes saying the provocative things, fuck that getting elected and actually changing things crap.

Let's fucking rip down one of our own because they said let's reach out. After all we're finished with all the Rpeublicans out there. No wonder we'll never win, we're so fucking suspicious of those around us that agree with us how in God's name can fight those against us?

[MADem]

5. Yeah, fuck that getting elected and actually changing things crap.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Incredible how hard it is for some to understand that ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL!!!!

[NoPasaran]

4. I love these two minute hates!

They're doubleplusgood!

[ContraBass Black]

6. And we here at DU

Are plusgoodthinkful.

[Moderator]

7. locking.

This is OTT criticism of a Democrat
and it is inflammatory.