Dr. Martin Luther King

  Today marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most moving speeches I have ever heard! A speech that spoke to a divided nation, a speech whose time had come. A speech that said to whites, This is the voice of reason, this is the voice of a man you can trust. Spoken by a man of great intellect, and yet still spoken from the heart. This was a speech so saturated with truth, that you knew, that these words were the kind of words spoken only by God himself, these were the words of a man who could be trusted!
  But how then do we take those words so eloquently spoken fifty years ago, and apply them to the reality of today? What if we could change history, what if we could have had the bullet of a madman miss? What would today have looked like if the man himself was in charge of the days festivities? The first and most obvious, one is so simple that even a high school junior in civics 101 wouldn't have missed it! There would have been a few Republicans on the program. Because Dr. King is a man of peace, he would have looked for a bipartisan approach, always looking for a way to unite, and not to further divide.
And what of the honored speakers, those chosen to speak before the President? Do you think that he, Dr. King, might have made a few changes in what was today's fare?
  As an intellectual with a deep faith, he would in no way have shied away from any ideology, and so certainly, would not have been a part of any attempt to stifle a legitimate point of view, but rather would have welcomed a free and open debate. So then, with this in mind, how do you think the speaker's list from today's program would have really looked? Certainly, many of those who did speak would have been welcomed to if Mr. King had presided over it, but who would have been added? Do you think that the voices of Thomas Sowell and Colonel West might have been welcomed? Or what if we were to get even more specific? Which do you think Dr. King would rather have speak directly to the young black voters? Dr. Benjamin Carson, or Al Sharpton? One, the head of pediatric neurosurgery at John Hopkins University Hospital, or the other whose entire professional career was predicated on a lie?
  This was yet another opportunity for our President to rise to the occasion and lead! Lead as the President first, and as a black president second! An opportunity to unite us! Instead, he chose it to wallow in partisan politics, cheapening not only himself, but the office itself. Dr. King would not have approved! To disagree with this President because of his policies is our God given right as Americans. To refuse to disagree with him because he is a black President is racist, and is an insult to the man himself!