Obama: Hillary's Martin Luther King Remark Not "Racial" Comment

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Topic subject Obama: Hillary's Martin Luther King Remark Not "Racial" Comment
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4071101, Obama: Hillary's Martin Luther King Remark Not "Racial" Comment
Posted by rodeodance on Tue Jan-15-08 08:04 AM

I applaud him for finally saying this---but he let this crap go on to long.


http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/obama_hillarys_martin_luther_king_remark_not_racial_comment.php

Obama: Hillary's Martin Luther King Remark Not "Racial" Comment
By Greg Sargent - January 14, 2008, 6:12PM

Barack Obama takes steps to defuse the racial and political tensions that have been uncorked by the battle between Hillary and himself over the meaning of recent remarks by the Clintons:

"I don't think it was in any way a racial comment," Obama told ABC News. "That's something that has played out in the press. That's not my view."

But, he said, the comment was revealing about her political character. "I do think it was indicative of the perspective that she brings, which is that what happens in Washington is more important than what happens outside of Washington," he said.

He said he believes the quote betrays a belief on her part, "that the intricacies of the legislative process were somehow more significant than when ordinary people rise up and march and go to jail and fight for justice."

He called that a "fundamental difference" between them.

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