...and You, Sir, Are No Martin Luther King, Jr

Today's Wall Street Journal published an editorial by Juan Williams exhorting Obama to stake a stand ("Obama Needs To Take A Stand on Race and Other Issues")

Williams details the ways in which Obama has either contradicted himself or refused to take a clear stance on issues such as racial justice, poverty, education, and unemployment. To quote from Williams:

But how is it possible that Mr. Obama, as he rises to claim the mantle of Dr. King before 75,000 people and a national TV audience of millions here tonight, remains a mystery on the most important civil rights issues of our day?...If Mr. Obama is really to remind the nation of Martin Luther King, he might follow King's example of taking a moral stand.

It's ironic that it's Juan Williams of all people who is criticizing Obama in this way, since Williams is a liberal's liberal and usually saves his criticism for conservatives.

I have studied the writings, sermons, and speeches of MLK for over ten years. I know a lot about what he believed, what he did, and what it cost him. And if Obama thinks he can present himself to the world as the new MLK, he's got another thing coming. He has nothing in common with MLK but skin tone, and since I judge people by the content of their character, that's not enough for me.