360 ContributorDoes Hillary really want to be making this comparison?
"Dr. King didn't just give speeches. He marched, he organized, he protested, he was gassed, he was beaten, he was jailed," [Hillary Clinton] said, noting
King had campaigned for Johnson because he recognized the need to elect a president who could enact civil rights into law. [emphasis mine]

And because MLK had no other choice.
If you wanted to pass civil rights legislation, you had to appeal to the white politicians who held the power, set the agenda and cast the votes. MLK's great genius was to persuade those with power -- LBJ, as well as white fellow citizens -- to enfranchise those without -- America's black citizens.
So, is Hillary saying that, in 2008, Barack Obama should occupy the role of a black moral leader while she takes the reigns of power and handles the "legislative stuff"?
You know, like back in the old days when a black man couldn't be elected president?