I have a saying, you can quote me if you like… but please do give credit. “In order to feed political correctness, you must starve common sense.” A case in point, Obama vs. Clinton. Watching this dance of words that these two (and their surrogates) are engaged in leaves me dumbfounded. Listen to how each and every word has to be parsed in such a way as to INSURE that nobody is being offended.  Never say what you mean, unless of course you can say it in a way that is palatable to all. What this has a nasty habit of doing is making for a lot of talk that doesn’t actually say a whole lot. Â
Hillary Clinton is being attacked because she had the nerve to say that President Johnson played a huge part in the civil rights movement. She actually intimated that without the support of the president, Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream might never have been realized (at least not as readily). Is she wrong? No. So why is the fact that she said it, construed as somehow minimalizing King’s efforts? What kind of imbecile would correlate that with a slight against Dr. King? What Hillary Clinton was trying to say is that there is a system to government and for change to occur you have to know how to work within that system.Â
It’s actually tragic that the party that so closely relates itself to “tolerance” and “understanding” is in fact intolerant and willing to bog itself down in misunderstanding. You have a couple of “right” fighters here, that are in essence both correct yet unwilling to concede that fact to one another.  How sad for the Democrats that their two frontrunners are caught in a quicksand of “correctness”.
Anybody that was not intellectually bankrupt would concede that King and Johnson worked in tandem to achieve what they did. What I find offensive is how Dr. King has been thrust out there as the only guy who ever did a thing for the cause. Lots of people suffered and sacrificed for the cause. Without Rosa Parks there might never have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. as we recognize him today. It was her act of civil disobedience to which he attached himself. In 1955 it was the Montgomery Bus Boycott that thrust King into a place of prominence within the movement. I think King himself would be uncomfortable with the way in which some people try to hold him above all others.Â
The Democrats better get ahold of their candidates. They better start worrying less about who said what, or did what, then and worry about getting across what they’ll do NOW.  If they don’t both Clinton and Obama’s hopes for the presidency will be relegated to the status of “fairytale”.   Â
