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villager

(26,001 posts) Thu Feb 18, 2016, 06:30 PM Feb 2016

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If MLK had said, "I Will Never Have Any Unrealistic Dreams!," would it have been as great a speech?

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If MLK had said, "I Will Never Have Any Unrealistic Dreams!," would it have been as great a speech? (Original Post) villager Feb 2016 OP

MLK just wanted unicorns and free stuff. BillZBubb Feb 2016 #1

Yeah, just like the abolitionists, and the suffragists, and Nelson Mandela, and ... kath Feb 2016 #7

and Bernie's supporters. BillZBubb Feb 2016 #8

No. Qutzupalotl Feb 2016 #2

Great poster! Says it all! Somebody needs to make a vid... Peace Patriot Feb 2016 #6

I like that idea! BillZBubb Feb 2016 #11

But you can get to the compromised land!!!!! BillZBubb Feb 2016 #9

Zing! Qutzupalotl Feb 2016 #12

Heh. +1 n/t lumberjack_jeff Feb 2016 #14

*blink* laundry_queen Feb 2016 #18

"I have - what is most likely an unreachable goal- that one day...." Sounds Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2016 #3

If MLK was a pragmatist, he'd have settled for 3/5 of a vote. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #4

Hey, that's 60%! That's more than half. It's a win! BillZBubb Feb 2016 #10

The DINOs consider getting the heel of the loaf a triumph. hifiguy Feb 2016 #15

"I've been to the plains." intheflow Feb 2016 #5

"I have a tactic! I have an angle! I have a target demographic!" lumberjack_jeff Feb 2016 #13

First, wrong forum. Bring it to GD-P KMOD Feb 2016 #16

Wrong forum, indeed villager Feb 2016 #17

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)

1. MLK just wanted unicorns and free stuff.

Reply to villager (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 06:34 PM

Feb 2016

Like all dreamers do.

kath

(10,565 posts)

7. Yeah, just like the abolitionists, and the suffragists, and Nelson Mandela, and ...

Reply to BillZBubb (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 08:33 PM

Feb 2016

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)

8. and Bernie's supporters.

Reply to kath (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 08:59 PM

Feb 2016

Hadn't you heard?

Qutzupalotl

(14,317 posts)

2. No.

Reply to villager (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 06:39 PM

Feb 2016

Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)

6. Great poster! Says it all! Somebody needs to make a vid...

Reply to Qutzupalotl (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:45 PM

Feb 2016

...with MLK giving his "I have a dream" speech with interruptions from the huge crowd, or with a voice interrupting the flow, shouting or whispering or singing in a mean voice: "No-o-o, you ca-a-an't!"

And that needs to go viral, because that IS the truth!

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)

11. I like that idea!

Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #6)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:03 PM

Feb 2016

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)

9. But you can get to the compromised land!!!!!

Reply to Qutzupalotl (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:01 PM

Feb 2016

The land of the Hillarians.

Qutzupalotl

(14,317 posts)

12. Zing!

Reply to BillZBubb (Reply #9)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:05 PM

Feb 2016

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

14. Heh. +1 n/t

Reply to Qutzupalotl (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:12 PM

Feb 2016

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)

18. *blink*

Reply to Qutzupalotl (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 19, 2016, 12:08 AM

Feb 2016

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)

3. "I have - what is most likely an unreachable goal- that one day...." Sounds

Reply to villager (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 06:44 PM

Feb 2016

pretty good. I got fired up just typing that.

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)

4. If MLK was a pragmatist, he'd have settled for 3/5 of a vote.

Reply to villager (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 06:50 PM

Feb 2016

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)

10. Hey, that's 60%! That's more than half. It's a win!

Reply to HooptieWagon (Reply #4)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:02 PM

Feb 2016

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

15. The DINOs consider getting the heel of the loaf a triumph.

Reply to BillZBubb (Reply #10)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:15 PM

Feb 2016

So they don't even begin by asking for half the loaf. Preemptive surrender, now there's some pragmatism, you betcha!

intheflow

(28,478 posts)

5. "I've been to the plains."

Reply to villager (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 07:41 PM

Feb 2016

Last edited Thu Feb 18, 2016, 08:23 PM - Edit history (2)

It's not the promised land or the mountaintop, but it's an okay rest stop on I-80. Clean toilets. Good as place to settle down as anywhere.

Really, we Bernie supporters need to settle down. Or just settle. Or STFU. Or somethin'.

lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)

13. "I have a tactic! I have an angle! I have a target demographic!"

Reply to villager (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:11 PM

Feb 2016

Were he as uninspiring as Clinton, he wouldn't even have had an audience.

KMOD

(7,906 posts)

16. First, wrong forum. Bring it to GD-P

Reply to villager (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:15 PM

Feb 2016

Second, Bernie is not MLK.

villager

(26,001 posts)

17. Wrong forum, indeed

Reply to KMOD (Reply #16)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 09:19 PM

Feb 2016

If you were looking to comment on a GDP post, take a left.

Or a right, as is your preference.

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