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If you put something in quotes, you should be directly quoting instead of paraphrasing (and I know you’re copying from the website).

> As I’ve said, Angela and I don’t exactly look like previous German and American leaders. But the fact that we can stand here today, along the fault line where a city was divided, speaks to an eternal truth: No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart. (Applause.)

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/0...

I think it’s a bit of leap to try to criticize him as failing to mention MLK when clearly he’s referencing political government officials even if his rhetoric is maybe imprecise to make that clear

when you read OP "claims to greatly admire" you know they're just trying to invent a problem

edit: it's not GP, it's OP sorry

To be fair to them, that wording comes from a random part of the website not from them.

Yeah, that editorializing really stood out to me as though they were just hunting for some criticism.

unfortunately, as seen here, rage bait drives engagement

I thought something was off about that top-comment. He would never miss an opportunity to compare himself to a greater man.

> He would never miss an opportunity to compare himself to a greater man

Many people apparently also like to shit on men greater than themselves.

The average person is better than some all-talk politician. But I’ll remember that.

Obamas is making movies for Netflix and living in Martha's Vineyard. I don't see him in the same category as MLK. At all. Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class is applicable.

Exactly what I was going to say. Obama is a centrist establishment politician, whereas MLK was an activist which, by definition, meant that he was operating at the then extremes of the political landscape. It would be insulting to many for Obama to compare himself to the great MLK. And from the other perspective, Obama is a POTUS first and a politician second and he clearly does not like his whole persona being "the black guy".

>Obama is a centrist establishment politician, whereas MLK was an activist which, by definition, meant that he was operating at the then extremes of the political landscape.

Which is funny because I remember when the narrative about Obama was that he was a black separatist raised at the foot of terrorist Bill Ayers, but that was before he was a crypto-Muslim Al-Qaeda sympathizer who wasn't even American mind you, and a Marxist-Leninist who planned to burn down the Constitution and turn the US over to communism. Also definitely the Antichrist and reincarnation of Hitler. Who was also totally a socialist.

All that, and the guy was barely even a progressive.

I mean, it didn't stop Reagan or other establishment politicians from besmirching MLK's name by just mentioning it.

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