date with destiny = pee on a corpse

OK, I guess I am a low-information voter. Because I did not realize the the Democratic candidate was chosen before the date of the convention was. I thought the voters had something to do with choosing the nominee.

But the Democrats' commitment to the first black candidate is strong enough that they set their convention to be held on the date of the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. Of course, if anyone other than Obama had won, that would have been - well, let's just say they knew even then that nobody else could win. That's what "machine politics" is all about, right?

And let's face it - raping Martin Luther King, Jr's dream has become the central platform of Obama's campaign.

From May 5th:

ANYONE interested in peeking ahead to see how this whole Democratic primary debacle ends....

We knew how it ended before the voters even voted.

We set the convention date on the 45th anniversary of his speech because we knew that, regardless of which candidate actually won, Barack Obama would be the nominee.

In the address, King dreams of a day when Americans will no longer be judged by "the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Love the irony. Looking at the content of Obama's character makes you guilty of what he calls racism.

In so many ways, Barack Obama is a realization of King's dream.

It's like a sick joke or something.

He's black, King was black, therefore they are conflated.

Obama has been doing this the whole time - and if you notice it, you're racist. Well, so what. I believe those people who are going around flinging the word racist around like that are an insult to those who have suffered from real racism. And an insult to every black person who has come by what they have earned honestly.

This whole campaign has been a recruitment bonanza for supremacists both white and black. The real conflict here is between separatists* vs. those who want to realize King's dream - and Obama has definitely sided with the separatists, that is, on the side opposite King's speech.

If Democratic leaders choose to award the nomination to Obama, that speech will become a rallying cry for the party.

But if they deny him the nomination because they fear that his brown skin could make it difficult to win white, working-class Democrats in key states, King's speech will become a haunting reminder of what they have wrought.

It will have been twisted by the very keepers of King's dream into the Democrats' nightmare.

Hardcore, eh? Vote for the one we want because he has the right skin color and that is all that matters. If you look at anything other than skin color you are a racist and you - dishonor Martin Luther King, Jr.?

I wonder if Pfleger and Wright will come to the convention. Their speeches could honor MLKJr, too.

Pfleger could remind us all that all whites have to give up their 401ks and repent to atone for the dirty sinfulness of their skin color.

And Wright could remind us all that it doesn't matter if we give up our 401ks anyway - because blacks and whites will never live together in harmony. According to him, it's just not possible.
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* yes, black separatists and white separatists are making the same argument: that we should not mingle; that we should be committed to hatred and should actively fight attempts to join together in peace; that we should instead make war and only the winner gets to inherit whatever is left.