Hillary being Slammed For telling The Truth

In the new year it seems that Hillary Clinton cant stop generating controversey every which way with her words and deeds. First it was her moment of tears before the new Hampshie Primary last week. which some people in the Obama camp are saying was the main reason for her victory there, that it was in effect a sympathy vote. Then it was the dust up about her husband calling Barak Obama's opposition to the Iraq war more a fairy tale than a reality. It is the case that Obama's votes on Iraq are not so out of step with his fellow Senators since he joined the body in 2005. He has not been so opposed in effect. Now Hillary is being accused of downplaying the achievments of the greatest civil rights leader in our nation's history, which in my opinion is nonsense. She told the truth simply and some people didn't like it is what happened there. There is no denying that Martin Luther King Jr. was a monumental force for the advancement of civil rights in this country both in the times in which he lived and after through the influence that those who came after him felt from both his powerful words and actions. He did get some help though with the passage of the civil rights bill in 1964, and that help did indeed come from President Lyndon Johnson. That piece of legislation originally came into being under President kennedy in his administration but Kennedy didn't want to introduce it to Congress. He was worried about his chances for re-election in 1964 and the House was filled with Senators and members from the south who did not want to vote for a civil rights bill and Kennedy knew that. He knew if he tried to push it on them that there would be consequences for him in terms of loss of support in the south with his bid to win re-election in 1964 so he basically sat on it and did nothing with it. It did take Lyndon Johnson, who had ten years before been the Majority leader in the Senate, to use his rather famous powers of persuasion in what some people at the time used to refer to as "The Johnson treatment" to bully, threaten, and in milder cases persuade members of the House and Senate to pass legislation that he wanted passed. The Civil Rights Bill would have never become law had it not been for Johnson and his strong will to champion it. So Hillary is right about that. Martin Luther King was a powerful leader but he had no power to make laws. Lyndon Johnson had that power as president and it was his effeorts in that regard that turned the idea that King had into the law that Johnson made. It was very much a team effort in that way. It was the result of the work of a good many like minded people.