Reply #68: How 'bout we also get Bill and Hill to read-up a little on MLK's take on HRC's HERO?!? [View All]

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Here's your blood, sweat and tears ... the entire Civil Rights Movement which Bill Clinton and his Goldwater Girl Wife all but ignored during their reign in The Executive Branch.

But continue to FALSELY lionize Bill Clinton when we *all* know that much of the booming economy really had little to nothing to do with their policies of NAFTA, Media hyper-consolidation, Welfare-Reform. :thumbsdown:

Don't get me started on Bill Clinton's deceit to homosexuals in the military, i.e., Don't Ask, Don't Tell disaster. :grr:


JULY 16, 1964 - King asserts that nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater by Republicans will aid racists.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_23.htm


The new events to which I refer were: the Republican Convention held in San Francisco; the hideous triple lynchings in Mississippi; and the outbreak of riots in several Northern cities.


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The "best man" at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.


It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States. In foreign policy Mr. Goldwater advocated a narrow nationalism, a crippling isolationism, and a trigger-happy attitude that could plunge the whole world into the dark abyss of annihilation. On social and economic issues, Mr. Goldwater represented an unrealistic conservatism that was totally out of touch with the realities of the twentieth century. The issue of poverty compelled the attention of all citizens of our country. Senator Goldwater had neither the concern nor the comprehension necessary to grapple with this problem of poverty in the fashion that the historical moment dictated. On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented.

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The Clinton's obsession with Corporate Politics have resulted in the neglect of our continuing struggle for Civil Rights for poor and disenfranchised Americans. Some of the above sounds quite familiar in tones of the DLC's stranglehold over OUR Democratic Party. :thumbsdown:

The TRUE reason that we all flourished in the 1990's? It was "the economy" NOT "the Clintonian DLC" that made it so. :shrug: