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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".

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>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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