Obama Compares His 'Suffering' to Martin Luther King Jr.

Brian Koenig ^ | 8/13/11 | Brian Koenig

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While whining about his incessant criticism from conservatives and Tea Partiers at a fundraiser in Manhattan on Friday night, Obama played the MLK card. Indeed, he compared his suffering to Martin Luther King Jr.'s suffering. From Politcker:

Standing in Weinstein’s basement, Obama said his troubles are like the ones facing Cuomo.

“When I ran in 2008, I think that a lot of folks believed we elect Obama and suddenly we’re going to fix politics in Washington,” Obama said. “And Andrew is familiar with this, because everybody figures, well, we’re going to fix politics in Albany.”

“And then it turns out that there are a lot of bad habits that have been built up over time, and we’re also a big, diverse country and not everybody agrees with me; not everybody agrees with the folks who live in Manhattan,” he said, drawing laughter from the rich celebrities that filled the room. “West of here,” he said. “You guys may not be familiar with it.”

The comparison was something of a stretch. Obama is struggling to recharge the national economy amid an increasingly deadlocked capitol split along party lines, while Cuomo, for his part, isn’t struggling much.

He passed a budget without raising taxes or destroying social service programs, and passed a landmark bill legalizing same-sex marriage, turning the state government in Albany from “dysfunctional” to hyperactive, in under seven months. (Cuomo attended the fundraiser as an invited guest, and did not pay, according to a source.)

Before leaving, Obama likened himself to one more figure. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I think that we forget when he was alive there was nobody who was more vilified, nobody who was more controversial, nobody who was more despairing at times,” he said.

If I'm not mistaken Mr. President, MLK was assassinated. I'm thinking your "suffering" isn't even in the same league.

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One giant difference - Martin Luther King was genuine.

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One giant difference - Martin Luther King was genuine.

Actually, MLK was an opportunist who put people, including children, in danger in order to advance his agenda. Long before that March in Birmingham in which lame duck Bull Conner set dogs and fire hoses on marchers that included small children, MLK was warned by a wide number of people of what was likely to happen. He ignored that advice and deliberately put people in danger. People like to claim that it was the spectacle of the Birmingham march that led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. It was the support of the Republicans that led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, in spite of Southern Democrat opposition. There was long-ongoing legislative and judicial proceedings that inevitably would have led to at least the same beneficial outcomes of desegregation. Instead, MLK's lack of care led to a spectacle that gave the impression that mob action was what got results and paved the way for even more public demonstrations with even greater destabilization of society. We have Barry Obama in the White House and misery pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and religious bigots like Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan living off the legacy of mob action.