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[7 Jan 2008 | Comments | ]

Hat Tip to Jack & Jill Politics, Politico.com, Fox News
Hillary Clinton believes that the Civil Rights movement only came into its own once Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Hillary was asked about Obama’s rejoinder that there’s something vaguely un-American about dismissing hopes as false, and that it doesn’t jibe with the careers of figures like like John F. Kennedy and King.
“Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act,” Clinton said. “It took a president to get it done.”
Clinton didn’t explicitly …