So, Yesterday Was MLK Day...

and Matt posted one of the most moving, most poetic speeches in our nation's history. The impact of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" oratory continues to resonate through our national conciousness.

So, what did the Defeatocrats say in memorial to this great Christian leader?

A current U.S. Senator, and future Presidential candidate, spoke of "plantations," disgracefully playing the race card in hopes of getting elected to the Presidency on 2008. She said this at the annual "Al Sharpton Homage Dinner," a requirement of all Defeatocrats running for office in New York. I wonder if Tawana Brawley was invited?

A former U.S. Senator, former Presidential candidate with aspirations to run again, proclaims the current President a criminal, and calls for hearings. Just a few words here:
Budhist Temple. Ruby Ridge. Waco. Elian Gonzalez. Aldrich Ames. Perjury. Cigars. Impeachment.

And the erstwhile Mayor of New Orleans gives some interesting culinary suggestions for bringing back his flood ravaged city:

"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans _ the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," the mayor said. "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."

Mayor Nagin also gives his reasons for believing Katrina, and other hurricanes hit.

Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.

"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.

"Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."

Can you picture the reaction of Pat Robertson saying such a thing?

Another great Federally-mandated holiday to race bait, whine and complain for the Left. Martin Luther King would be appalled, and rightfully so.