Posted on 04/05/2008 5:59:09 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Her voice quavering, Hillary Clinton spoke from the same church Friday where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. announced 40 years ago - on the night before he was killed - that he'd been to the mountaintop and seen the glory.
Recalling hearing of King's assassination, Clinton, in college at the time, said: "I walked into my dorm room and took my book bag and hurled it across the room."
Her voice breaking, she told the crowd at Memphis' Mason Temple, "It felt like everything had been shattered, and we'd never be able to put the pieces together again."
It was one of several poignant moments yesterday as the candidates for President - black and white, Democrat and Republican, male and female - sought to embrace the legacy of King on the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader's death.
Republican John McCain laid a wreath at the Lorraine hotel in Memphis, where King was gunned down, then pointedly expressed remorse for having voted against making MLK's birthday a national holiday in 1983.
"I was wrong and eventually realized that," McCain said to a smattering of boos, claps - and one onlooker who yelled out, "We all make mistakes."
Democrat Barack Obama, the first African-American with a real shot at his party's nomination, was the only candidate not to make a pilgrimage to Memphis.
Remembering King is hardly a rare occasion for Obama, who cites the preacher's "fierce urgency of now" phrase almost daily in describing his decision to run.
"You know, Dr. King once said that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice," said the Illinois senator. "But here's the thing - it does not bend on its own. ... So on this day of all days, let us each do our part to bend that arc."
I wonder how many peoples’ first reaction to Mrs. Bill Clinton’s remarks was to go look up when she attended school?
It was SO PHONY I was wondering why the crowd wasn;t LAUGHING!!! You MUST hear it!! PATHETIC.
Pander, pander... lie, lie.
Billary just can’t be believed on these old college-day stories. Huma and her probably worked it out over a period of days, as to what she could say that would make it look like she was the most caring, intelligent cracker around.
Yeah, she also said that she met Martin King when she was 14. Where and when did that happen? Perhaps it was a mind meld.
“Recalling hearing of King’s assassination, Clinton, in college at the time, said: “I walked into my dorm room and took my book bag and hurled it across the room.”
This story will probably be exposed as another made story shortly.
She Who Cackles had a bookbag?
Who knew?
‘When I was a little girl I always dreamed of being black, but they wouldn’t take a “typical white” girl “who couldn’t jump” ...’
I doubt seriously that she would throw her bookbag without a human target.
She just has to keep telling storys so her life doesn't cave in on her.
Hillary. America is on to your little lies. Give it up!
The gringo Juan McPain is wrong about everything. Wrong for America.
“Her whole adult life is one big lie from Bill is a great husband to shes the smartest women in the world.”
True. Bill Clinton will be made out to be Ward Cleaver shortly.
CLINTON
On meeting King when she was a teenager:
“I stood in line for a very long time that night to shake his hand. And he was gracious, and he was kind to lean over to shake the hand of a 14-year-old girl ... from the suburbs of Chicago, who went to an all-white church and an all-white school, and lived in an all-white suburb. But he didn’t ask me, as I reached out my hand, ‘Where do you live, what is your experience?’ He just took it and looked in my face and thanked me for coming.”
On hearing that King had been shot:
“Like many of you here who are of a certain age, I will never forget where I was when I heard Dr. King had been killed. I was a junior in college. And I remember hearing about it and just feeling such despair. I walked onto my dorm room, took my book bag and hurled it across the room. It felt like everything had been shattered, like we would never be able to put the pieces together again.
“I joined a protest march in Boston. I wore a black armband. I worked to convince my college to recruit more students and faculty of color, but it felt like it wasn’t enough.”
http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_8816256?source=rss
It has been pointed out that black arm bands were not worn in 1968 at all.
Did they even use bookbags back then?
“I joined a protest march in Boston. I wore a black armband. I worked to convince my college to recruit more students and faculty of color, but it felt like it wasn’t enough.”
Another Drama Queen fabrication?
“Billary just can’t be believed on these old college-day stories. Huma and her probably worked it out over a period of days, as to what she could say that would make it look like she was the most caring, intelligent cracker around.”
Sounds plausible and might be why she “misspoke” about the sniper fire being in Bosnia.
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