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$3 Million For A Party? What Would Dr. King Say?

by: Alegre

Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 23:50:20 PM EDT


A friend of mine just got back from a week of service in New Orleans, and she came home to the news that BHO is going to spend another $3 million on a bigger venue, when he's already got a venue that holds over 20,000 booked and paid for.  She wondered just what some of the great thinkers - people BHO tries to compare himself to - would think of this extravagance in this time of great need.

She asked me that WWJD question someone mentioned earlier (What would Jesus do?), and then expanded on that a bit...

So would Jesus want to spend $30 million to build an audience to give a speech?  Would Martin Luther King?  Would Gandhi? What about the Dali Lama?  Even George Bush would be less arrogant.

Then it occurred to me - this big speech of BHO's is supposed to fall on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in 1963 - I Have A Dream.  I couldn't help but wonder what he would advise BHO re better uses of this extravagance - all this money being spent and for what?

Surely it could be put to use helping Democrats down ticket come November - right?

Or maybe on other things in our communities?  Wouldn't it be a grand gesture if BHO said ahh you're right.  Forget the big show and let's donate that money to help keep homeless shelters open, or something along those lines.  

Think about it - how many school breakfasts would that money provide?

In other words Barack - put your money where your mouth is man.

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This speech is suppoed to draw our attention to the similarities between Sen. Obama and Dr. King.  So tell us, how is wasting 30 million dollars during this time of extreme need honoring King's work - his memory - his words?  What would King have told BHO and Dean to do with that money?  

Would he say use it to educate our children?

Would he say use it so a child could see a doctor for the first time in her life?

Would he say use it to help aleviate the pain at the pump?

Would he say use it to help a family avoid foreclosure - keep them off the streets?

Would he say use it to heal the divisions that run through our society?  To help promote a better understanding among commuities?

Would he say use it to help rebuild New Orleans and bring it back to what it once was?

How is this big party helping to provide relief to people who are suffering - right now?

And would King be proud of BHO's behavior?
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i think dr king is just part of the scenery to obama. (0.00 / 0)
if this convention mess is any indication of obama's fiscal policy, there's NO WAY he's ever gonna be able to clean up george bush's mess.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.
He's Blowing $30 Million on a Speech (0.00 / 0)
The RNC's laughin' its collective arse off right about now over this one.

That's $30 million less that the DNC will have for down ticket races in the states.  Think of the seats that could have helped us win!!!!

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King wasn't a politician. (0.00 / 0)
His movement wasn't about electing him anything.  It was about advancing civil rights for all people.  I frankly, detest the comparison pundits go to great lengths to draw.

I don't actually think much of BO's speeches.  They sound like the exact same platitudes politicians have always given in speeches.  But the crowd management, the staging of the speeches, freaks me out.

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The comparisons infuriate me, ML. (0.00 / 0)
JFK, Bobby, Martin.  How dare they compare Bambi to those giants.  When I hear it I want to smash things.
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Well Said MassLib (0.00 / 0)
I've never understood how people could buy into those comparisons.  You're right - they insult the memory of those great men.

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Obama is not interested in helping anyone (0.00 / 0)
but himself. His entire career has shown that. He doesn't bother to do the job he has, he starts climbing for the next rung. It's hard to actually help people when you are schmoozing their oppressors for campaign money. And he uses his office of the moment to pay back the people who helped him get there. The rest of us aren't useful and therefore don't count. He is a liar and a cheat. Anything that feeds the Obama myth and his inflated idea of himself is acceptable. Anything that doesn't, isn't. He is an ego on legs. If it's not good for him, he doesn't give a damn.

I heard Dr. King give the "I have a dream" speech in DC. I was there, in the crowd. A 12 year old who was in tears when he spoke. To this day, just reading that speech still moves me to tears and takes me back to that hot day in DC when I watched history happen. Barack Obama isn't fit to shine his shoes, never mind step into them. Dr. King cared about people, of all colors. Obama cares about himself. That is the difference between them.  

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Wow - You Heard That Speech In Person? (0.00 / 0)
I get choked up every time I hear it on NPR each Jan. 20th.  It's moving and needs to be heard even today.

Especially today.

And you're right - BHO is nowhere near fit to fill Dr. King's shoes.  Anyone who pushes that comparison (and I hope no one here thinks I was with this post!) needs to take a long hard look at who BHO is, and of how little he's accomplished in his short and sorry career.

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We were living in McLean, VA (0.00 / 0)
at the time, so it was just a short bus trip across the river. Lots of people from VA went, even though we hadn't marched, we felt it was important to be there and support the people who did march. I am white, but wasn't raised in the US. Dad was a Foreign Service officer.

When we came home in 1960, for four years, I made a little civil rights history without knowing it. My grandmother had a black housekeeper, call her Bea, and I had been briefed on who I would meet when we arrived. Bea was one of the people I had known since I was very young, but probably didn't actually remember well after years abroad. When we arrived, my mother said, "And you remember Bea, don't you?" Well, I didn't really, but I said yes, and walked across the hall, put out my hand and when she shook it, I curtseyed. Apparently this was earthshattering in some quarters, a white child curtseying to a black woman. I didn't understand why it would be. She was a grownup, polite little girls curtseyed to grownups. End of discussion.

I didn't know what racism was until I came home to America and saw on TV black people being attacked with fire hoses and dogs because they wanted to vote. I asked my father why that was happening. He said that it was because they wanted to vote. So I asked if they were citizens, and he said yes. Then I asked why they couldn't vote. My father said, with more pain in his face than I have ever seen, before or since, that it was because they had dark skin. I didn't understand why that made a difference. I still don't. I never heard the "n" word until I was 11, and I had to ask my teacher what it meant. I thought they were mispronouncing Niger, the river, but the context was wrong. I was always taught that there are two kinds of people in the world, assholes and non-assholes. And assholes, and non-assholes, come in all shapes, sizes and colors. So, I just never understood racism. I just don't get it. And I was angry that American citizens were being treated that way. I still am.

Dr. King was, and is, a hero of mine. He was a great man who did more for the American people than any other public figure in this century, in my opinion. I remember when he was killed. I stood on the third floor of my grandmother's house in the country, from which we could see the tower of the Washington Cathedral, and watched the smoke rise from the riots after he died. I didn't blame the black people in DC one bit for that. And neither did anyone in my family. We mourned a great man, and we have done what we could to carry on his work, albeit in little ways. But sometimes, those are the ways that count.  

Live your life in such a way that when your feet
hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says
'Oh $#!%'...she's awake!!

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obscene? (0.00 / 0)
I remember when Hillary got dissed by his supporters for spending too much on food in Iowa, and running out of money. How will this play with his poor supporters who were led to believe they were financing his campaign and it was about the little people? No wonder so many stopped giving, when he refused public financing, thinking  they'd keep forgoing dinner and a movie once a month to get him elected.

Barack is a novice, and his advisors aren't the brightest bulbs.  so, they'll drag our party down, not that it didn't get a head start from impeachment off  the table Nancy, and no leadership Howard.

Really, we need a third party that has some standards.  I guess we should start from inside?  maybe I can do a little diary about that?  

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