Monday Morning Notes

This is pretty incredible...

White House hopeful Barack Obama made a rare foray into the complicated politics of race on Sunday in a speech on the eve of a national holiday to commemorate civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. "At a time when many were still doubtful about the possibilities of change, a time when those in the black community mistrusted themselves, and at times mistrusted each other, King inspired with words not of anger, but of an urgency that still speaks to us today," Obama said.

Speaking to hundreds of people at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church in the southeastern state of Georgia, where King launched the civil rights movement, Obama evoked the ongoing racial and ideological divide in America....

Former president Bill Clinton, who was popular among blacks during his two terms, was to visit the same Atlanta church on Monday, the day when the United States honors King, who was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 39, with a national holiday....

In addition to Bill Clinton's visit on Monday, the church prepared to welcome Republican White House hopeful Mike Huckabee, who was invited personally by one of King's nieces, Alveda King. She has indicated that she does not back the Baptist preacher and former Arkansas governor in his bid for the presidency, but that she agrees with his opposition to abortion and gay marriage.

Obama, Bill, Huck, all speaking at the same church? Huck is not your ordinary Republican. --I wonder how many conservatives will continue to crap on Huck if it becomes clear that they're also craping on blacks?