Oh Really?

I'm probably about the last person in the world to weigh in on this, but I can't let it pass me by without saying something about it.

Hillary Clinton has been taking some flack for saying that the civil rights legislation that Martin Luther King Jr. fought so hard for would not have been a reality if President Johnson hadn't signed it into law. She was trying to make the point that you need a strong President doing what is right, in order to get important things done. And she's right... unfortunately the things that she thinks are right are not things that we would agree are the right things to do, but that's beside the point.

Some Obama supporters, though to be clear, not Obama himself, or, as I understand it, anyone connected to his campaign, have decided to use this to play the race card, saying that Hillary was ignoring the role that MLK Jr. played in the Civil Rights movement, or at least diminishing it. As though she were trying to say that he didn't matter and it was the President that did it all.

In order to buy into this all you have to do is believe that a woman who has spent her entire life working and manipulating to gain as much personal power for herself as possible, finding herself in a position where she actually has a very real shot at being elected to the highest office in the land, arguably in the entire world, woke up one morning and decided to commit political suicide. I guess we can see how that doesn't hold up.

If anything, Senator Clinton didn't spread the credit around far enough. It's true that without King, and a great many other people who worked and fought very hard in the Civil Rights movement, the ball never would have been gotten rolling. Then, without Congress taking a stand, writing and passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there wouldn't have been a bill at all. And then, finally, without the President standing up for what was right, the bill wouldn't have (or at least may not have) become law. That's how our system works. All of the hard working activists in the world can't pass a law unless Congress (at the least) and the President (at best) stand with them.

This doesn't diminish the efforts of the Civil Rights workers (King included) it's just reality.

Honestly, I can't believe that I'm writing a post in defense of Hillary Clinton, but, in the interest of honesty, I feel like I have to do this. So, don't think I'm a Hillary supporter or anything, anyway, when it comes to the Democratic Primary, in the words of Dr. Phil, I don't have a dog in this fight. I hope that none of them win the Presidency, I just wish they would be honest about things. And don't worry, the Mainstream Media is working hard to pour gasoline on the fire.

On a different topic, how ironic is it that Wesley Snipes, an actor, is claiming that income tax doesn't apply to him? I mean, we know that most people in Hollywood are excessively Liberal, and liberalism has become the gateway to Socialism, in which everyone pays outrageous taxes, and the Government gives it back out to whom they will. This is called "Redistribution of Wealth," and it is the reason that liberals are always calling for higher taxes and more Government programs. So, isn't it ironic that one of their own had decided that the whole thing doesn't apply to him. Of course, he's making a silly argument as to why he doesn't have to pay taxes, but he screwed that up by sending in $14 Million in bad checks, so, apparently he knew that he owed the money, so it's looking like he's going to do some jail time for it.

Isn't life crazy?