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It stops short of a shameful stump speech, but I agree it is inappropriate. Though I don't think it was that big of a deal, most of the speech was on topic. But I guess what more can we can expect? Everyone will use anything they can to push what they want.
Both Coakley and Brown began their day at the annual breakfast in Boston honoring the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.....
...Coakley, in her remarks at the breakfast, linked her candidacy to the legacy of King and Edward M. Kennedy. "If you send me to the Senate, I will be guided by those values," she said. "It's not about me anymore. It never was. It's what Martin Luther King stood for. It's what Ted Kennedy stood for."
She said King would have been on the "front lines" fighting for health care "not as a privilege but as a right, as Senator Kennedy often said."
And in a veiled criticism of Brown, Coakley said she understood that "people are frustrated and angry," but said there were no "easy answer to the tough questions."
Brown did not speak from the dais. When not circulating in the room between speakers, he sat near the back, at Table 85. He was a guest of Jane C. Edmonds, a former chair of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, who called herself ''a Brown Democrat.''
Brown stuck around for a talk by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino in which he urged the crowd to vote Tuesday to continue Obama's agenda. Brown left, followed by a horde of TV cameras, before King's son, Martin Luther King III, told the crowd to do the same thing. "The eyes of the nation are watching Massachusetts,'' King said.
After leaving the breakfast, Brown blasted Coakley for using her appearance for "politicking."
"I didn't realize that this was a rally for Martha. And I thought it was inappropriate that she started asking for votes," Brown told reporters, according to State House News Service.
Good thing no one forced you to listen to it, huh? That "off" button comes in so handy sometimes.
Not and "off" button, I just changed FM stations, once it became clear people were going to be using the death of, and a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. for pushing their politics.
It stops short of a shameful stump speech, but I agree it is inappropriate. Though I don't think it was that big of a deal, most of the speech was on topic. But I guess what more can we can expect? Everyone will use anything they can to push what they want.
That may be partially true, but living thru the civil rights era as a young boy, the civil rights of Americans that MLK defended means quite a bit to me, and honoring him should not be used as an excuse for people to pontificate upon their own personal importance, nor to promote their partisan politics.
How does one separate MLK from politics? Obama would never have been president had it not been for MLK.
Absolutely.
MLK was about politics; equal rights is a political issue.
What was the political party that supported his actions?
What one opposed them, and continues to oppose equal rights today?
Absolutely.
MLK was about politics; equal rights is a political issue.
Equal rights is not a political issue, its a natural human right.
[quote=chielgirl;12509247]What was the political party that supported his actions?
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What one opposed them, and continues to oppose equal rights today?
This is just normal hateful rhetoric from chielgirl.
It was the republicans who broke the democrat filibuster against civil rights, but no political party, in America, opposes civil rights or equal rights.
If MLK were alive today, O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh would be screaming about how he's a socialist, commie, left wing loon.
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