An absolutely appropriate response to the question.
It may have taken 45 years for our society to reach some level of Dr. King’s aspired mountaintop with the candidacy of Barrack Obama, but the work is ever ongoing.
Barrack Obama understands that he is where he is today because of the millions of people who have come to believe in him — over decades of public service — as a reflection of their own hopes, desires and aspirations.
Obama is ever so tuned into the ebb and flow of leadership, understanding that he can’t be the messiah, raining down change of his will or form, but instead serving as a conduit for Americans who put in the work to make a difference each day we’re on this planet.
That ethic is what I would imagine Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. endorsing.
As an aside, I’d like to play a game. Please use the comments below to illustrate what you think John Edwards was thinking at the 34 second mark.
Here’s my shot:
“Bottom up? What do you know about bottom up? I created an Anti-Poverty Center™! And then I tapped that bottom up, down, sideways… who’s your daddy?!”