Before the speech
BARACK Obama is preparing to make a crucial address to a huge audience in an echo of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech.
Forty-five years to the day after the civil rights icon spelled out an electrifying vision of racial equality, Obama will claim his prize as the first-ever black presidential nominee of a major US political party.
On that day, Luther-King spoke the spine-tingling words that still remain one of the greatest speeches of all time:
“I have a dream that one day, this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal,’ ” he said forty years ago.
Yeah there’s just one thing. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican
Why is this never mentioned? It’s almost like the Democrats and the media are trying to rewrite history. Or something.

To read more about why Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican go here
Obama limbered up his big day with a game of pickup basketball at a Denver gym, following his tradition of shooting hoops on red letter political days.
Later, he dropped in on a lunch of women from his Illinois delegation, telling them he had not forgotten his roots.
“I have a speech tonight. I wanted to practice it out on you guys,” Obama said, as the women cheered. “See if it works.”
Oh Puleeze!!!
Already running the most presumptuous campaign for President ever, complete with a chair on his private airplane labeled “President,” Republicans assumed Obama, due to his Messiah Complex, was going to announce in front of a Greek temple.
As the stage was finalized, it has become very clear it is not a Greek temple. It is the White House.
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For a blow by blow description of the Messiah’s speech, go here
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As Obama was speaking of “the promise of America” and referencing a “fundamental belief,” he uttered a line that should strike everyone as a really funny thing for him to say: “I am my brother’s keeper.”
He actually said that — and none of them laughed.
This man whose income last year exceeded $4 million and whose passion is to lecture the rest of us about compassion and helping the poor has a half-brother named George Hussein Anyango Obama who is living in a dilapidated hut in a slum on the outskirts of Nairobi on less than twelve dollars a year. He receives no help from brother Barack. Obama’s parting with some of his own change is not change his brother can depend on.
Yet he stands before thousand in a stadium, addressing millions on television. and he says: “I am my brother’s keeper.”