Clinton, Obama Rhetoric Heats Up in Controversy Over MLK’s Role in Race Rights Fight

Jan 14, Foxnews

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton bashed rival Barack Obama on Sunday, suggesting that the black senator from Illinois was trying to prolong a race controversy that bubbled up after Clinton last week said it took a president like Lyndon Johnson to enact the vision presented by race rights fighter Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Clinton told FOX News last week in remarks that sparked the current conflict. “It took a president to get it done.”

On Sunday, Clinton complained that Obama has been misrepresenting her words and their meaning. She said Obama has been comparing himself to King and President John F. Kennedy, who began the process that led to landmark civil rights legislation. But unlike King, who Clinton noted had marched, organized, protested, and was gassed, beaten and jailed, Obama is merely giving speeches about his commitment to racial equality.

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photo: Hillary Clinton attends church in Columbia, S.C., on Sunday (AP Photo)