HRC Booed as MLK Speech in NYC Gets Lukewarm Reception
Maybe it’s because she’s been accused of diminishing the accomplishments of Martin Luther King, or maybe it’s because it was a dreary afternoon in New York, but Sen Hillary Clinton didn’t exactly receive a warm welcome in her home state at a birthday celebration for the civil rights leader (which is technically tomorrow, while the MLK holiday is next week).
Scattered boos peppered the smattering of applause as Sen Clinton walked to the podium to deliver a 20 minute address linking the civil rights struggle to the fight for women’s rights and labor rights; the event, held jointly with a security workers union that has endorsed Sen Clinton, was also aimed at securing better wages and health care benefits for union members.
Clinton mentioned her chief rival for the nomination twice in her speech, both times linking herself to his historic candidacy. “How many of us ever could have dreamed that we would see the day when a woman and an African American are running for the presidency of the United States of America?” she asked.
She also delivered a more artful version of the argument that she so poorly articulated to Major Garrett and which kicked off the whole King controversy — crediting civil rights leaders’ political action, not just their lofty rhetoric, for achieving change. “Both Senator Obama and I know that we are where we are today because of leaders like Dr King,” she said. But, she said, those activists “also voted, and they brought people to the polls and they held leaders accountable for delivering on the promise.”
The crowd interrupted the speech for tepid applause only a handful of times, and rewarded her with more of the same at the end of her remarks. Take a look.
Tags: barack obama, hillary clinton, Martin Luther King, new york
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Does any of this really surprise anyone? Black Americans are tired of the patronizing, entitled attitude the Democrats have always had towards them and their votes.
What could this mean for Republicans? Read on:
http://onlifeandlybberty.blogspot.com/2008/01/democrat-dust-up-race-and-school-choice.html
Democrats historically were the same party that fought against Lincoln who was a republican during the civil war. Slavery and oppression used to be a democratic stance until the civil rights movement. Maybe someone can explain how that all worked out.
TODAY, the Repubs are no friend of the African-Americans. Not now, not this century, not last century.
Where did all the Southern Democrats go when the Democrats desegregated the South? That’s right, to the Repub party. The ran into the arms of the party that wanted to keep the South segregated.
This is a family squabble. Please stay out of it. You Repubs know not what you speak of.
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Let’s not start making her special by referring to her as HRC….she is Clinton….can’t get away from it by just using initials…there was plenty of room in the headline!
WHY DOES THE MEDIA KEEP SAYING THAT HILLARY WAS THE VICTOR IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE COMEBACK KID? OVER 50% OF THE TOTAL DEMOCRATIC VOTERS PREFERRED OTHER CANDIDATES OTHER THAN HILLARY CLINTON. DO THE MATH!
HILLARY CLINTON 39%
OTHER CANDIDATES COMBINED 60%
(OBAMA, EDWARDS, RICHARDSON, KUCINICH)
ALSO CLINTON AND OBAMA RECEIVED THE SAME AMOUNT OF DELEGATES!
ONCE AGAIN THE MEDIA IS BLOWING THINGS OUT OF PROPORTION!
PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS.
OPEN LETTER TO HILLARY…
Dear Hillary,
Don’t start none, won’t be none.
Camp Obama