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Article: Clinton: Obama campaign distorts my comments about Martin Luther King
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2008
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NEW YORK (AP) - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday
that Barack Obama's campaign had injected racial tension into the
presidential contest, saying he had distorted for political gain her
comments about Martin Luther King's role in the civil rights
movement.
"This is an unfortunate story line the Obama campaign has pushed
very successfully," the former first lady said on NBC's "Meet the
Press."
She was quoted as saying King's dream of racial equality was
realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil
Rights Act of 1964.
As evidence the Obama campaign had pushed the story, Clinton
advisers ...