Obama's Speech on Thursday Night Will Honor a Famous Republican

On Thursday night the Obamessiah will take the stage at Invesco Field in Denver (under a driving thunderstorm if there's any justice in the world) and the date of the speech coincides with the 45th anniversary of a speech by a famous Republican: Martin Luther King Jr.

Yep, MLK was a Republican, as the National Black Republican Association reminds us (h/t Gateway Pundit):

Forty-five years ago, on August 28, 1963, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican and embraced the traditional values that made this country great delivered his inspirational civil rights "I Have a Dream" speech.

Today, Senator Barack Obama, with the most liberal voting record in the US Senate, is delivering his political acceptance speech, in an apparent attempt to assume for himself the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King.

Dr. King did not embrace the type of secularist agenda promoted by Obama and the Democratic Party of today, which includes fostering dependency on welfare that breaks up families, supporting same-sex marriage and partial-birth abortion, and banning God from the public square.

Obama is no MLK!

They've even got more than 50 billboards welcoming Democrats to Denver:
Let's not forget why MLK was a Republican in 1963. The Democrat party of that day was the party of segregation and discrimination. Southern Dem Governors like George Wallace and Orval Faubus stood in schoolhouse doors to block black students from enrolling in white schools. Gov. Ernest Hollings of South Carolina ordered the Confederate flag flown on the statehouse grounds to protest against federal integration efforts. The south was pretty much run by pro-segregation Democrats who regularly encouraged their law enforcement officers to beat and in some cases kill civil rights marchers.

Being a Republican made perfect sense for the civil rights activists of 1963, and makes even more sense today.