Shorter Martha Coakley: Voting for me was Martin Luther King’s famous Dream. You don’t hate his dream … do you?*
You know, originally I was going to clip the best bits from Martha Coakley‘s speech this morning at a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast, but I realized there’s nothing to clip. You really have to drink the whole thing in.
“If Dr. King were here today, he’d be standing with us.”
Dude.
“We will act on the dream tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow” referring to election day. The dream referring to Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. “We will act on” referring to voting for her tomorrow as the realization of Dr. King’s dream.
Dude.
“It’s important that tomorrow we act on that dream, and we make sure that we allow me to continue that work.”
Dude.
As posthumous endorsements go, Coakley sure seanced up some powerful ones. I want to make a few more snarky comments, but I’m just plain too stunned by this speech. I mean … wow.
Oh by the way. Scott Brown was in the audience. Yeah.
Reporters afterward asked Brown what he thought of Martha’s speech. Via Gateway Pundit:
“I thought it was inappropriate to be politicking when we are trying to honor Martin Luther King today. I don’t have any comments on what it says about her. Right now I am not going to comment on anything political right now, we’re going to start campaigning in about a half hour… I certainly didn’t realize that this was a rally for Martha and I thought it was inappropriate that she was starting to ask for other people’s votes when we were trying to remember Martin Luther King Jr. … I don’t remember hearing anything about Martin Luther King except for minor references.”
Exactly.
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*Inspired by: “You don’t hate children .. do you?” (just the first 50 seconds)
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My guess is in addition to posthumous endorsements, she's also depending...
Jeffrey Malbis (malbis) (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:24PM EDT (link)…on the graveyard vote to pull her through. *gr*
Unfortunately for her, the Obama effect seems to have taken hold and Brown’s lead has widened while her numbers are collapsing.
I am finding it hard to believe that we are not only looking at the possibility of a GOP win for Senate in Massachusetts, but a convincing GOP win.
Just another Naked Democrat
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:26PM EDT (link)We see them for who they are. Now apparently a whole bunch of MA voters do to.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
*Please* EPU...did you have to use that visual?
eburke (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:54PM EDT (link)You say Democrat, I think of Nancy, Harry & Barney. Do you have any idea what picturing them naked has done to my libido and thus my sex life for the next, oh, 20 years or so?
Thanks a lot!
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
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I'm not a shrink, nor do I play one on the TV box, however...
USNJIMRET (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 7:42PM EDT (link)If you hear/read “naked Democrat” , and immediately think/visualize Pelosi, Reid and/or Frank……then you sir, might want to consider some very, very serious, and prompt, professional care.
Just sayin’
MLK Jr.'s dream was to elect a White Woman. Only a Democrat could say that with a straight face. nt
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:28PM EDT (link)conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat
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that thought never occurred to me--that was
louisiana (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:34PM EDT (link)truly FUNNY! Wish FOX would do an SNL type program– they could have their script written for them by RSers.
And of course, no matter how much time passes...
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:47PM EDT (link)…no matter how many Democrats are elected, no matter how much Social Justice is enacted, and no matter that a black man is put into the White House, The Dream is Still Not Realized. Never is, never will be.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
And that, Aaron, is an instant classic -nt-
eburke (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:03PM EDT (link)“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
5 (n/t)
Finrod (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 8:04PM EDT (link).
PETA and the ASPCA are pure evil. See here and here.
Martha is so bad
Matthew Morris (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:35PM EDT (link)Unfortunately Martha makes it all too easy for the media to blame the messenger and her inadequacies, rather than the message.
Fortunately, they will probably try to do just that to save face after a landscape changing defeat, ultimately furthering their own peril.
“I AM WHO I AM”; and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Ipsum esse subsistens
What would MLK say today?
Common_Cents (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:41PM EDT (link)He’d be ashamed about how his work was distorted into victim mentality instead of empowerment, fear mongering, partisan politics and handouts instead of a hand up.
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government
that requires every citizen to prove
they are insured…. but not everyone
must prove they are a citizen.” -Ben Stein
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”[especially in DC] – Friedrich Nietzsche
That's a sad speech by Coakley
aelie (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:40PM EDT (link)Her message is simple: It doesn’t matter what you think or believe. If you are black, you must vote for me.
Coakley managed to pack decades of paternalistic liberal racism into five minutes. (nt)
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:43PM EDT (link)“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
MLK would say . . .
bigalsouth (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 11:25PM EDT (link)to Martha Coakley and the Democrat Party that their support of unlimited abortion is an abomination and a sin.
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Scott Brown should announce that tomorrow HIS people will Act On The Dream...
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:43PM EDT (link)…of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison.
Oh yeah, I forgot… they don’t count anymore. We sure as hell don’t give them their own holidays.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
Yes we do, it's called the "4th of July"
Tbone (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:59PM EDT (link)or Independence Day. Consider it’s implications and the current crop of Democrats can only be construed as American Traitors.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Just keeping with Dem Tradition...
Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:44PM EDT (link)New tradition, mind you..
Obama had to give a big shout out for some non-medal of honor winner before announcing the Ft Hood massacre
"By the content of their character...."
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:44PM EDT (link)One one side: Nakedly ambitious party hack, who couldn’t be bothered to actually campaign until last week, and would use an MLK remembrance luncheon to pander for votes.
On the other: A happy warrior who has run an aggressive, positive campaign, rightfully declaring the office he’s running for is the “people’s seat”.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
"The people's seat"
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:53PM EDT (link)As much as I enjoyed that great comeback to the notion of “Ted Kennedy’s seat” (isn’t it just as valid to point out that Ted was sitting in Henry Cabot Lodge‘s seat, which is now reverting to earlier form?), I’ve been grumbling under my breath ever since Brown made it that technically we should be talking about “the State of Massachusetts’ seat. I guess that concept is never coming back, though…
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
True, but I don't think the 17th amendment will be repealed anytime soon
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:02PM EDT (link)Fun fact: JFK ran for it as the “people’s seat” and not the Lodge seat back in 1952.
Oh my, have the times changed.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
Paul Wellstone funeral turned into Democrat pep rally
Wes_W Monday, January 18th at 5:49PM EDT (link)That was the first thing I thought of when I read her inappropriate remarks. It must be in the Democrat playbook that you can use a funeral or memorial for that last minute push for votes. When they set the bar low anything is acceptable.
Like when they and the Kennedy family
sharonmcp (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 10:31PM EDT (link)politicized Saint Teddy’s final internment with the reading of Teddy’s “final wish” letter.
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan
"It's not about me anymore"???
ringthelibertybell Monday, January 18th at 5:53PM EDT (link)during the speech that is supposed to be about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Martha Coakley says: “It’s not about me anymore…it was never about me…”
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Isn’t that an oxymoron? She states that it is not about her anymore, which implies that it IS about her….then corrects herself by saying ummmm…it was never about me.
This woman made a Freudian slip, and revealed what she is really about. Narssacistic and pompous.
Massachusetts, you are lucky to have such a great leader in Scott Brown for a real choice in this election on Tuesday.
Go Scott Brown!
Hilarious!
earthmover (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:45PM EDT (link)“It’s important that tomorrow we act on that dream, and we make sure that we allow me to continue that work. But of course it’s not about me.”
Her campaign has turned into a parody of bad campaigns. I love it.
I too found that particular line to be quite illuminating.
USNJIMRET (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 7:56PM EDT (link)As in flashlight on a swarm of cockroaches illuminating.
And should the Massachusetts Miracle actually come to pass as so many hope for, the scurrying of her fellow roaches will be a disgusting sight to behold for days to come.
No, Martha MLK would NOT be standing with you
SusanAnne Hiller (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 5:59PM EDT (link)How do I know that. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR WAS A REPUBLICAN. YOU FOOL.
~SusanAnne
@susanannehiller on Twitter
Has she been taking lessons from
muffin Monday, January 18th at 6:02PM EDT (link)Gaffe-A-Day Biden?
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
Which is understandable...
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:06PM EDT (link)…considering that the Democrat Attorney General brother of the Democrat former occupant of this seat was having King’s telephone tapped.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
But he considered himself a "populist"
jackhammer Tuesday, January 19th at 4:00AM EDT (link)and populism is pretty close ot the progressive agendea. he was a republican in the Dixie south, where being a democrat meant being a racial segragist. He was actually for all these economic social justice things, including reparations and such.
So she wasn’t all off base, but still it lacks all respect to stump at this sort of thing.
IMHO
muffin Monday, January 18th at 6:00PM EDT (link)Scott Brown doesn’t need a teleprompter for his off-the-cuff remarks. I heard no stuttering in his responses. Also, he doesn’t remind me of the perpetual politician; he has the manner of an everyday person. He and Rubio can do great things for our country. Let’s get them both elected! Go, Scott, Go! Yes, I am an actively campaigning Rubio Republican.
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
Tomorrow's Headlines
natlanthem (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:03PM EDT (link)Brown Teabags Coakley
Curt Schilling’s Pitching Breaks The Curse
GM Stocks Rise on Mass News
NO Brown will NOT teabag Coakley.....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:25PM EDT (link)I realize you think that is smart and your heart is in the RIGHT place but please STOP using what the TOOLS on the left use to DENIGRATE We The People who are DISGUSTED with them!
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Well put, JBP .nt
nolan Monday, January 18th at 8:27PM EDT (link)“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” -Auric Goldfinger
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. — George Bernard Shaw
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Absolutely hilarious.
Tbone (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:06PM EDT (link)This woman is clueless and even though she is light skinned and speaks without a negro dialect, both now requirements for all Democrat candidates, I don’t think she is going to win.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
no dialect, unless she wants one -nt
Alberta (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 10:19PM EDT (link)Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
This guy is *sharp*! What a perfect tone in his whole
eburke (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:09PM EDT (link)response to the Marcia politicing, ‘specially refusing to politicize the event he just criticized for being political by saying ‘we’ll start campaigning in 30 minutes’ and the whole ‘I didn’t realize this was going to be a political event for Marcia… she hardly even mentioned MLK.”
He rocks!
Marcia? Not so much.
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
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Yep, and he's smart enough not to take any bait.
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:13PM EDT (link)Like that “what do you think that says about her?” question. Brown knew enough not to respond; to let her classlessness speak for itself.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
Wednesday's Headlines
natlanthem (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:16PM EDT (link)Senator Olympia Snowe Considers Offers from Democrats
Lawsuit May Delay Filling Kennedy Seat
House To Vote At Midnight on Senate Healthcare Bill
Kerry Asked to Vote No on Healthcare After Brown’s Win Mandate
3 of 4 I think are spot-on .nt
nolan Monday, January 18th at 8:31PM EDT (link)“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” -Auric Goldfinger
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. — George Bernard Shaw
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
I was going to hold these until tomorrow...
bkeyser Monday, January 18th at 6:18PM EDT (link)but with Intrade now at 79.9/22, I think it might be safe.
Welcome Home, and
Lame Duck
Wow!
fpete13527 (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:36PM EDT (link)I thought it was high earlier today at 62…
This is outstanding!
Does this mean
nolan Monday, January 18th at 8:53PM EDT (link)I should bone-up on my Schadenfreude?
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” -Auric Goldfinger
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. — George Bernard Shaw
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
MLK brought people together.....
fpete13527 (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:34PM EDT (link)…..BUT….he would make an exception for Coakley and would probably recommend that she stay far, far, far, away.
To abuse and hijack a day of recognition for a great man with a ZERO integrity campaign and career speaks volumes about Coakley….and the WH and congress that fully endorse her.
Heads up...per NRO:
Mary Beth (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 6:59PM EDT (link)‘More than 600,000 on Mass. Voters Rolls Had Died or Moved’ [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Feeding Michael Novak’s worries:
Massachusetts had 116,483 dead people on its voter registration rolls and another 538,567 people who were no longer living at the addresses on their registrations, according to a study released by Aristotle International Inc., a nonpartisan political technology and data firm. On Tuesday, Massachusetts will hold a special U.S. Senate election between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown. Polls show a close race.
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.” ~ Ronald Reagan
Not only that, but...
chr31ter Monday, January 18th at 7:48PM EDT (link)Poll workers in Massachusetts are not allowed to ask for identification Something about it being unfair to poor voters.
Another Wellstone Memorial Moment...
furious (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 7:15PM EDT (link)…brought to you by the Democratic National Committee.
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
I've worked with government lady lawyers;
Achance (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 7:17PM EDT (link)they can’t get pretty enough to be attractive people. Somebody amongst the feminazis or in the law schools told them that they had to be self-centered, defensive, and obnoxiously abrasive, and pretty much all of them are. As I write this I’m trying to think of any among the dozens and dozens that I worked with that I actually liked as a person and I come up with one or two.
In Vino Veritas
That was amusing
aesthete (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 7:25PM EDT (link)I like how she made the improbable claim that BOTH BHO and Deval Patrick were dealing with “inherited” problems from their predecessors.
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke
Into the future... & Happy BHO Day
louisiana (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 7:32PM EDT (link)This day will be a nat.’l holiday of course, & he will be just as deserving of that as he was when he received the Nobel prize. The only problem will be that historians will have a difficult time finding his “I Have A Dream ” speech after having to wade through all his gaffes.
Perhaps, as the Conservative wave 'seems' to be building, his "Fundamental Transformation" speech(s) will serve? NT
USNJIMRET (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 8:24PM EDT (link)Dan
dnlchisholm Monday, January 18th at 7:58PM EDT (link)Win or lose, Mitt’s getting some credit for Brown’s big MO: htp://mittromneycentral.com/2010/01/17/win-or-lose-mitts-getting-some-credit-for-browns-big-mo/
Look at the lady
tiredude Monday, January 18th at 8:00PM EDT (link)to the left of the screen at 3:56. The look on her face is pricless.
Hopefully, this won't get me banned, but when I see the initial video screenshot
conservativemountaineer Monday, January 18th at 9:41PM EDT (link)I think Oreo cookies.
Just because the cloud has a silver lining doesn’t mean it’s not going to rain.
If this is offensive, please give me another chance..
conservativemountaineer Monday, January 18th at 9:43PM EDT (link)Thank you.
Just because the cloud has a silver lining doesn’t mean it’s not going to rain.
if you have to add the disclaimer... -nt
Alberta (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 10:22PM EDT (link)Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
I thought he was talking about cookies,
gekster (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 10:30PM EDT (link)and knowing every one here is weight conscious, he was afraid we would take offense.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
To use MLK day as a political event is pretty bad.
antisocial (Diary) Monday, January 18th at 10:28PM EDT (link)Then to use MLK’s memories / life work as a moral equivalence to a demoncrat win is obnoxious. Scott Brown did well with his response.
PS: Revisionist history at its worst.
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!