AMERICAblog: A speech delivered forty years ago tonight in Memphis
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
OT:
April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama has pulled even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected officials, with a surge in support from congressional freshmen and governors from Republican-dominated states.
Obama yesterday won the backing of Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, who became the sixth head of a Republican-leaning state to come out for him in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the past week, Obama picked up support from first-term Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. Clinton, backed by two governors from Republican states, gained no superdelegates in that time.
Obama, 46, is endorsed by 16 U.S. House freshmen to Clinton's 6, and 40 percent of his congressional allies are from ``red states,'' or those that voted for President George W. Bush in 2004, compared with one-quarter for Clinton. That bolsters the Obama campaign's argument that he would have broader backing in the general election.
If he were still alive, the 79 year-old MLK's speeches and sermons would be edited to show how much he hated America and Whitey and endlessly repeated for Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, and Candy Crowley to tut-tut over.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hounded mercilessly by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. In 1965, they actually tried to get King to commit suicide.
Hoover was a real Repuke. A cross-dressing fascist who had no regard for the rule of law. Busboy would love him. All night long.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
OT:
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama raked in $40 million in March, leaving Hillary Rodham Clinton and her $20 million in the fundraising dust and stuffing his campaign treasury so he can outspend her in the crucial Pennsylvania primary.
His haul in new donations also buttressed his argument to Democratic superdelegates that he has built a vast network of donors and volunteers that they wouldn't want to lose by denying him the nomination.
Obama has attracted nearly 1.3 million donors, largely through the Internet.
Obama has attracted nearly 1.3 million donors, largely through the Internet.
I think it is far more significant that this also means that Obama is not beholden to the fat cats, corporations and power brokers for the money. I think he started out initially well funded by the crooked power brokers, but most of his money is from small donors through the internet. We may well achieve cleaner campaign financing despite the efforts of the current politicians to obstruct changing how campaigns are financed. Once a good number of honest or more honest politicians are financed by small donations through the internet, they can pass the laws that will ban the contributions and control by the crooked fat cats. I hope! I hope!
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
mine was in response to yours busboy. not MLK's speech.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
As usual, Busboy has nothing intelligent to say.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Hillary should quit for the good of the party.
That's the problem. Hillary only cares about Hillary.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Busboy is a McCainiac. He said so.
The Hillbots like Busboy but he's still a Chimpyloving Asshole.
Trolls cannot be domesticated. They are too fucking stupid.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
James Earl Ray's brother was on CoastToCoastAM the other night.
He says his brother was the patsy in the King assassination.
The CIA and the Mob did the hit. The CIA wanted him dead.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Not only MLK, but both Kennedy brothers. Saddest of all is that the song, "Abraham, Martin and John" will soon add a fourth name, Barack. There is no way it can be avoided given how deeply entrenched the right wing is in our government agencies responsible for the president's security. The FBI, CIA, NSA and other organizations are deeply entrenched by the right wing. Of course, as noted above, Robert Kennedy should also be added to that song. Barack will be particularly targeted because, as I noted in another post in this thread, his campaign financing will be mostly from the little people through the internet rather than being beholden to the crooked fat cats, power brokers and evil corporations. If he survives, he will be such a massive threat to the current corrupt system, that they must try to assassinate him. Obama probably considers himself part of the current political structure, but the fact that his campaign financing was independent of the corruption will obligate them to assassinate him as he is just too much of a threat to them.
KatherineHepburnEyes
· 1 year ago
The republicans who murdered MLK are the same kind of republicans of today. This is why Barack Obama said the other night that he prays for his family's safety when he is on the road and they're at home.
grasshopper
· 1 year ago
Air America is owned by rightwing thugs.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
You got that right. Obama needs Secret Service protection because he gets death threats. McCain still doesn't have Secret Service and I bet he isn't getting death threats, either.
This country is full of violent, bigoted rednecks who want to kill blacks.
fostert
· 1 year ago
This speech has always disturbed me. He seems to know his fate. But, like any great leader, he's more concerned about his followers than himself. Knowing what would happen the next day, it's difficult to watch. But we should all be proud that such a person once walked among us.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Air America Radio is a business. I don't agree with their suspension of Randi Rhodes but I can understand it.
Hillary IS a fucking whore. A corporate whore. She's a multimillionaire and has more in common with Chimpy and Cheney than she does with us.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
It is uncanny how he saw his own death coming. Abraham Lincoln did that too. It is probably a sign of greatness as King was attuned to a higher plane.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Our eyes have seen the glory and the sorrow...
...A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang its head And joy, like a pearl, Attends the needs of all mankind-- Of such I dream, my world!
grasshopper
· 1 year ago
foster,
This is my favorite MLK speech. And you're right, he knew the black ops were closing in.
onceVM
· 1 year ago
MLK spoke truth to power but we all know that truth to the conservitive mindset is like holy water on a vampire..it burns.. Every day more truth is coming out about this corrupt fascist Bush administration and it's starting to burn their souls.. They tortured..it burns..They incarserated without trial..it burns..They committed treasson by outing a CIA agent..wow how it burns.. Eventualy the truth will out and without doubt they will burn in hell.
Paraguay here they come..
grasshopper
· 1 year ago
Tom3,
I'm listening to Mike Malloy right now. He was with AA from the beginning and also was fired by them. AA is finished once Rachel Maddow gets her MSNBC show.
kenosharick
· 1 year ago
It is so sad and pathetic when a thread honoring the great MLK is used by some as just anather excuse to bash Hillary Clinton. This has driven many away from Obama and will cost him in the general. He talks unity, while people here shove in the knife. Why this desperation?
onceVM
· 1 year ago
Tom..what is the story about the Randi Rhodes suspension?..I did'nt catch the show today but Sam Seder, filling in yesterday , said that she would be back today...
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
kenosharick
It is so sad and pathetic when a thread honoring the great MLK is used by some as just anather excuse to bash Hillary Clinton. This has driven many away from Obama and will cost him in the general. He talks unity, while people here shove in the knife. Why this desperation?
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Yes, what would the first African-American presidential nominee have to do with MLK?
Tom3
· 1 year ago
As far as I know, Randi was NOT fired, just suspended.
Mikey is still on the radio. He has a new network and a website too.
Air America Radio has served a purpose. There are still some excellent people there. But I am also listening to Amy Goodman and Ed Schultz.
bullitt
· 1 year ago
The Clintons usually bury their mistakes! Obama should watch his backside!
Tom3
· 1 year ago
I listen to Air America, Amy Goodman, Ed Schultz, and watch Keith Olberman whenever I can (I hate Comcast so I don't get cable).
Hillbots listen to Junkie Rush, Mann Coulter, PervOreilly, Joe "Dead Woman In My Office" Scarborough and Glenn-or-Glenda Beck.
Hillary was recently photographed schmoozing with Rupert Murdock.
DonQ
· 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but if you don't have tears in your eyes after listening to those words, you have no place in this country.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
81% of Americans don't like the direction this country is headed.
McSame will keep it headed in the same bad direction.
And so will Hillary. She's corporate like McSame.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
I often forget how young Martin Luther King Jr was when he died. How amazing he managed to accomplish so MUCH in just 39 years. Astonishing. And his wisdom was so far beyond that of a 30 year old man that it is almost impossible to think of him as a man in his 30's. I pray that MLK is smiling down from above as he watches America elect its first black president this year.
Andrew A. Gill
· 1 year ago
I still think his finest work was the Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Mike Meyer
· 1 year ago
The good die young,truely a great man.
Morpheus
· 1 year ago
Busboy you are wrong it wasn't his comments about Terrell Owens that got the fat bastard Rush Pimpledick fired it was his comments about Donavan McNabb that got him fired, besides his commentary on MNF sucked.
someguy
· 1 year ago
When I see this speech now I think of Solomon Burke's cover of Patty's song from his album Nashville
busboy, you keep right on defending rush and hannity. they've done tremendous damage to this country by passing off their bullshit patriotism and insidious hatred as acceptable GOP values and then crying about being censored or PC'd when anyone calls them on their crap.
they've operated for the last seven years as a not-so-stealth mouthpiece for the bush white house and that's the sickest part of all.
Disgusted american
· 1 year ago
Shame that Dr King's daughter Bernice has Forgotten her Father & Mother's message of "Inclusivness"...as she Fights tooth and Nail against LGBT Equality in America.....she's a disgrace to his memory!
jr
· 1 year ago
"white voters would never listen to this"-Ed Rendell
Bia
· 1 year ago
I just finished watching McCain Speak on Martin Luther King Day, 2008. (The spin progresses as we speak, so let me put my take down now.)
It was hard to miss the irony of McCain speaking on this day, in Memphis, at the very site of King's murder. And seeing him on that balcony felt just plain WRONG! ...and while he said all the right things about Martin Luther, he also comes out of the America that killed King, figuratively speaking. Now he would NON-figuratively send more men to be killed in the Middle East quagmire if elected. King was, above all, a man of Peace, and he would not have liked seeing a warmonger like McCain making political hay out of his day. Oh yes, He admitted he was wrong and apologized about being against the MLK National Holiday, but he says he came to realize too LATE... Are we to wait as long for him to realize he's also wrong about this war?
mirth
· 1 year ago
MSNBC (top right) has a nice collection of MLK pics (#4 being especially endearing):
and Coulter/Limbaugh/Hannity/Beck/O'Reilly have all said worse on the public airwaives yet the GOP and it's corporate media outlets still embrace them all.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
tls, I don't recall Rush or Hannity ever calling anyone a whore on the air. And, you are wrong on so many counts. Limbaugh was fired from Monday Night Football because he said that T Owens was getting preferential treatment from the press because he is black. You saw what "nappy headed Ho's" got for Imus. I think Randi is a gifted personality and she'll probably come off her "indefinite" suspension. When you are an "infotainer" or journalist you've got to watch your mouth because the PC police are everywhere. And, BTW, I thought that Imus was 'way over the line'.
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April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama has pulled even with Hillary Clinton in endorsements from top elected officials, with a surge in support from congressional freshmen and governors from Republican-dominated states.
Obama yesterday won the backing of Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, who became the sixth head of a Republican-leaning state to come out for him in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the past week, Obama picked up support from first-term Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. Clinton, backed by two governors from Republican states, gained no superdelegates in that time.
Obama, 46, is endorsed by 16 U.S. House freshmen to Clinton's 6, and 40 percent of his congressional allies are from ``red states,'' or those that voted for President George W. Bush in 2004, compared with one-quarter for Clinton. That bolsters the Obama campaign's argument that he would have broader backing in the general election.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingt...
Hoover was a real Repuke. A cross-dressing fascist who had no regard for the rule of law. Busboy would love him. All night long.
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama raked in $40 million in March, leaving Hillary Rodham Clinton and her $20 million in the fundraising dust and stuffing his campaign treasury so he can outspend her in the crucial Pennsylvania primary.
His haul in new donations also buttressed his argument to Democratic superdelegates that he has built a vast network of donors and volunteers that they wouldn't want to lose by denying him the nomination.
Obama has attracted nearly 1.3 million donors, largely through the Internet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/03/obama-...
I think it is far more significant that this also means that Obama is not beholden to the fat cats, corporations and power brokers for the money. I think he started out initially well funded by the crooked power brokers, but most of his money is from small donors through the internet. We may well achieve cleaner campaign financing despite the efforts of the current politicians to obstruct changing how campaigns are financed. Once a good number of honest or more honest politicians are financed by small donations through the internet, they can pass the laws that will ban the contributions and control by the crooked fat cats. I hope! I hope!
That's the problem. Hillary only cares about Hillary.
The Hillbots like Busboy but he's still a Chimpyloving Asshole.
Trolls cannot be domesticated. They are too fucking stupid.
He says his brother was the patsy in the King assassination.
The CIA and the Mob did the hit. The CIA wanted him dead.
This country is full of violent, bigoted rednecks who want to kill blacks.
Hillary IS a fucking whore. A corporate whore. She's a multimillionaire and has more in common with Chimpy and Cheney than she does with us.
...A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind--
Of such I dream, my world!
This is my favorite MLK speech. And you're right, he knew the black ops were closing in.
Every day more truth is coming out about this corrupt fascist Bush administration and it's starting to burn their souls..
They tortured..it burns..They incarserated without trial..it burns..They committed treasson by outing a CIA agent..wow how it burns..
Eventualy the truth will out and without doubt they will burn in hell.
Paraguay here they come..
I'm listening to Mike Malloy right now. He was with AA from the beginning and also was fired by them. AA is finished once Rachel Maddow gets her MSNBC show.
It is so sad and pathetic when a thread honoring the great MLK is used by some as just anather excuse to bash Hillary Clinton. This has driven many away from Obama and will cost him in the general. He talks unity, while people here shove in the knife. Why this desperation?
----
Yes, what would the first African-American presidential nominee have to do with MLK?
Mikey is still on the radio. He has a new network and a website too.
Air America Radio has served a purpose. There are still some excellent people there. But I am also listening to Amy Goodman and Ed Schultz.
Hillbots listen to Junkie Rush, Mann Coulter, PervOreilly, Joe "Dead Woman In My Office" Scarborough and Glenn-or-Glenda Beck.
Hillary was recently photographed schmoozing with Rupert Murdock.
McSame will keep it headed in the same bad direction.
And so will Hillary. She's corporate like McSame.
http://www.last.fm/music/Solomon+Burke/_/Up+to+...
they've operated for the last seven years as a not-so-stealth mouthpiece for the bush white house and that's the sickest part of all.
(The spin progresses as we speak, so let me put my take down now.)
It was hard to miss the irony of McCain speaking on this day, in Memphis, at the very site of King's murder.
And seeing him on that balcony felt just plain WRONG!
...and while he said all the right things about Martin Luther, he also comes out of the America that killed King, figuratively speaking.
Now he would NON-figuratively send more men to be killed in the Middle East quagmire if elected.
King was, above all, a man of Peace, and he would not have liked seeing a warmonger like McCain making political hay out of his day.
Oh yes, He admitted he was wrong and apologized about being against the MLK National Holiday, but he says he came to realize too LATE...
Are we to wait as long for him to realize he's also wrong about this war?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
A larger collection of Dr King photos:
http://www.mlkonline.net/images.html
"He freed a lot of people,
but it seems the good die young.
I just looked around
and he's gone."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DfdhWi5MILo