So, Obama speaks to the hope of a new century.
Clinton says in the most recent debate that he shouldn't bring 'false hopes' of what can be done, or what he can do.
Obama counters with:
Obama told his audience that hope made President Kennedy aim to put a man on the moon and Martin Luther King Jr. to imagine the end of segregation."If anything crystallized what this campaign is about, it was that right there," Obama said of Clinton's comment in the debate. "Some are thinking in terms of our constraints, and some are thinking about our limitless possibilities."
And then Clinton, in what might be later looked back on as the moment she lost a lot of support and lost the nomination, says...
"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act. It took a president to get it done.
Oh, no. She didn't!?!
Ouch. I kind of think I kind of understand what she was kind of trying to say, but what it comes across as is this from a DailyKos diarist:
It took a nation to get it done. It took a mass uprising to get it done. It took brave men and women to brave Bull Connor's thugs, firehoses, and dogs. It took an overriding popular will to see it throught. It took courage. It took inspiration. It took the the blood of martyrs and patriots.It took a movement.
And the implication here is that African-Americans didn't make it happen, but rather that the nice white father figure in Washington got it done for them.
and then read what this blogger says.
