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In reply to the discussion: Dr. Cornel West: "MLK Today Could Be Taken to Jail Without Due Process Under the NDAA" [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)YOU??!!!!
LOL
Its hard to hear you over the noise from all the axes you are grinding.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever actually read Letter From a Birmingham Jail?
Judging from your text, I would have to say "NO".
Do you even know if MLK was a Democrat?
He was VERY vocal in his criticism of the Democratic Party.
...and you don't need to tell ME about Paul Wellstone.
I was THERE in Minnesota. He was my Senator. I worked on his campaigns.
I heard him speak in public, but I also heard him speak off the record at campaign HQ to staffers and in conversations with impromptu crowds of supporters and friends.
He was very discouraged by the Conservative elements of the Democratic Party blocking anything even remotely "Democratic" from happening.
I will trust my personal memories of Paul
over your fantasies of who you would like him to have been.
[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center]
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[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their rhetoric, promises, or excuses.