Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama

[limpyhobbler]

8. I completely disagree with what you just said.

This type of writing is not only hack-kneed and extremely lazy, it is despicable on every level.

Far from being lazy this took quite a a bit of thought to put together. It's not despicable at all. In fact it's quite admirable to speak in defense of our shared values, and to defend the legacy of MLK against comparisons to Obama.

To pretend to know what the current thinking of anyone who has been deceased for over four decades would have been in today's world is as appalling as it is insulting, not to mention utterly ludicrous.

This point is juvenile and trite. Obviously nobody can know what a deceased historical figure would have thought. All adults know that without having to have it spelled out. He's just giving his opinion of what MLK would have done in relation to Obama, based on what he did when he was alive.

Apparently Mr. Ford believes he knows, beyond all doubt, what Dr. King's world view would have been in 2013, without any regard to what events, personal and/or political, might have shaped his opinions in the forty-five years he WASN'T even alive - right down to pretending to know how he would have spent his birthday, fer Chrissakes.

The nature of your complaint makes me think the whole thing is over your head. You're nitpicking on the fact that nobody can know what a dead person thinks. The main point is that Obama does not follow in the political tradition of MLK at all.

If Mr. Ford has a problem with Obama, he should have the balls to state those opinions on his own behalf

He does that all the time. Maybe you should live up to your own standards and say for yourself what you think about the question: If MLK were alive today, would he support Obama's policy of cutting Social Security and Medicare, of indefinite detention and assassination, and obedience to the big banks? Or would he protest against it?

This kind of tripe is beyond deplorable, and stinks of someone trying to validate his own political stance by claiming it would be the same position held by a beloved and highly respected American icon.

To me the point is that Obama is not part of the same political tradition is MLK. Anybody who would try to claim MLK's legacy and pin in on Obama, in order to try to validate Obama's positions, should stop.