Hillary surrogate invokes MLK - "he would say 'I'm happy that there's a woman running for president"

[jefferson_dem]

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Although the back-and-forth between Hillary Clinton and her main rival did not creep into the former president's remarks, the issue of race came up before Clinton even took the stage. He was introduced by Clinton endorser and popular local black representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who told a cheering and racially diverse crowd that Martin Luther King would have been proud of Clinton's candidacy.

"I am supporting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and I owe Martin Luther King Jr. too," said Tubbs Jones, a African-American congresswoman popular in her Cleveland-area district here. "Martin Luther King said 'Judge, you, by the content of your character, and not by the color of your skin.' And if he was here, and if he was here, he would say 'I'm happy that there's a woman running for president too.'"

She went on to take a swipe at Obama's focus on hope as the centerpiece of his candidacy. "You need to know hope did not begin in 2008," she said. "Hope began in 2002 when the man from Hope, Arkansas, ran for president and made a difference in the United States of America." (She meant 1992, when Clinton first began his presidential bid. The slip, perhaps, provides some evidence of the fieriness of her comments.)

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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/29/619627.aspx#comments

[Arkana]

1. Martin Luther King has become the Jesus of the Democratic Party, it seems.

How can we presume to know WHAT Dr. King would have thought? The fact is we don't. Both Obama and Hillary would like to THINK that MLK was on their side, but they can never know for sure.

[aquart]

3. Excellent. You WILL keep that in mind?

Of course you will. Obama isn't MLK,jr. He's JFK. Ted said.

[Abacus]

13. OBAMA:

"Well, I don't think Dr. King would endorse any of us. I think what he would call upon the American people to do is to hold us accountable, and this goes to the core differences, I think, in this campaign. "

[rinsd]

2. How dare Jones say that! Doesn't she know that MLK has been trademarked by the Obama camp!

[jefferson_dem]

6. I just hope Hillary corrects Rep. Jones.

After all, MLK wasn't "all that" anyway. He only inspired folks and we needed LBJ to get anything real accomplished.

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[Kittycat]

10. Meds.

[journalist3072]

11. You shared yours with the person who just called me an asshole? Thank you, but it obviously didn't

work on them.

[enough already]

12. The irony here is rich

Good Hill-dog, good Hill-dog. *woof*

[billbuckhead]

5. A black female Hillary surrogate?

But that's impossible!

[Jai4WKC08]

8. Get a grip people!

Is there anyone who seriously thinks that MLK would NOT have been happy that a woman is running for president? Does anything think for a minute that he would have had the sense or courage or whatever to say so?

What the fuck is the point you're trying to make by posting this?

[mondo joe]

14. Wouldn't he be happy about that?