Kringla Heimsins
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« on: April 04, 2017, 07:37:14 PM » |
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Jesse Jackson made a good run in 1988. But Martin Luther King is obviously leagues ahead of him in every way possible. Even though he was a socialist, could he have won a Democratic primary between 1968 and 1999 (the year he would have turned 70)?
I mean, Martin Luther King may have been divisive, and his assassination perhaps helped to make him less so, but he is the most well-known American figure, ever. (Yes, more than old Abe, at least in Europe.) He is the only private citizen to have a special holiday, and his Dream speech is considered one of the most eloquent speech ever given... The fact he's a pastor may also be a plus for evangelicals.
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