Honor

The night President John F. Kennedy was assassinated:



Most Barack-like, and where you can see Obama as the populist intellectual descendant, heavyweight division. Interesting also to think of Obama as representing the King side of the argument, but the more publicized rhetoric of Reverend Wright being his Malcolm:



King the "radical" who had both civil rights insiders and the press suddenly turning against him for speaking out against the Vietnam War in 1968:



The eve of destruction:



40 years ago today he was stolen from America.

Character

When a Democratic candidate will say anything to get elected it's called a character issue. What about when a Republican lies?

Romney: …And I’m not going to distance myself in any way from my faith. But you can see what I believed and what my family believed by looking at, at our lives. My dad marched with Martin Luther King.

By which he actually meant:

A defensive Romney was peppered with questions today on exactly what he meant when he said -- most recently on Meet the Press -- that he "saw" his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. Recent articles have indicated that his father, the late Michigan Gov. George Romney, didn't march with the civil-rights leader.

Admitting that he didn't see the march with his own eyes, he said, "I 'saw' him in the figurative sense."

"The reference of seeing my father lead in civil rights," he said, "and seeing my father march with Martin Luther King is in the sense of this figurative awareness of and recognition of his leadership."

"I've tried to be as accurate as I can be," he continued, smiling firmly. "If you look at the literature or look at the dictionary, the term 'saw' includes being aware of -- in the sense I've described."

You might have to do this in order to understand that.