As Bubba told us not too long ago, or was it Hillary, Obama is not Martin Luther King. And the point is? Obama is now feeling a bit more of the HEAT from the political kitchen as Hillary and crew throw everything at him including the kitchen sink. Welcome to politics. Everyone has a cross to bear and so far I think Obama has done well.
I've said that I think Obama is a symbol for restoration between blacks and whites and a renewal of dialogue (as best that can be done) between Christians and Muslims. No he's not a Muslim. That is urban myth gone wacko.
What I've seen in Obama is a softer tone and a demeanor that doesn't attack- when I would, when politicians have. His line of HOPE is mroe than rhetoric, but a way of life that he embraces. So, while he is not Martin Luther King (no one is) he protrays some of the restorative ambience that not even the Christian church represents.
While the press rails on his pastor (even if there is good reason to do so), that's not how it's to be done, except maybe in politics.
Let me lift a quote from MLK from Strength To Love.
"We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. Do what you will and we will continue to loae you. Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave half dead, and we shall still love you. But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffrer. One day we shall win our freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win YOU in the process, and our victory will be a double victory."
Where's the modeling of such character Christians?
It's the WAY of Jesus, not Jesus as one minute confessional WAY.
Ah, but this is politics after all.
Martin Luther King