Quotes from Dr. King

I cannot begin to describe just how disturbingly wrong it is to hear Der Monkey Fuhrer laud Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Of any president since Dr. King was killed, Bush has done more that is directly opposed to the tenets of Dr. King than any other and probably any other person who ran for president, other than maybe George Wallace in `72 and David Duke.

Aggressive war. Torture. Imprisonment without trial. Promoting the interests of the rich over all. None of those where things that Dr. King favored, yet all of them are things that Stupie McNumnutz has promoted. If Bush wanted to truly honor Dr. King, both he and Darth Cheney would have submitted their resignations today and then ceremoniously committed seppuku on the South Lawn of the White House. At the very least, he could have shut the frak up.

The Rude Pundit had a discourse on this today. He as a lengthy quote from Dr. King to buttress his premise that Dr. King would fuck Bush's shit up. This is an excerpt:

"It is disgraceful that a Congress that can vote upwards of $35 billion a year for a senseless immoral war in Vietnam cannot vote a weak $2 billion dollars to carry on our all too feeble efforts to bind up the wound of our nation's 35 million poor. This is nothing short of a Congress engaging in political guerrilla warfare against the defenseless poor of our nation."

We're at several times that amount for Chimpy's Moronic War. Chimpy's concern for the poor is evinced by his "stimulus package", which leaves the poor out of the game. As he has always done, McHitler cares nothing about those who are not rich.

I wasn't intending to write the above words, but I have the radio on and a news story had Chimpy speaking about Dr. King.

This is the quote that I wanted to highlight, as found by TFS Magnum:

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."

That is applicable to most of the presidential candidates. Giuliani is big into promoting national cowardice, as has been Bush, by promoting the sacrifice of civil rights and liberties for the vague and illusionary promise of safety. Romney scores a double in both expedience and vanity, for he has never cared for what is right, only what will resonate with the electorate.

But let's face it: Telling the truth, saying what is right is never popular. Romney won in Michigan by, in part, babbling on about how he would bring back high-paying jobs to the state. Everybody who has seriously looked at this issue knows that Romney is full of shit. McCain told the truth to the voters of Michigan, who were largely stupid and gullible enough to prefer a shining lie over the hard truth.