BILL MOYERS: It's time once again to take a look at some of the comments you've been sending to us at the journal. You've been writing and we've been reading.

We shined light on the controversy that arose when Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton referenced LBJ following through on MLK Jr.'s vision by enacting the Civil Rights Bill. In order to get the facts straight we played her whole statement:

HILLARY CLINTON: Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when he was able to get through Congress something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried, but it took a president to get it done"

BILL MOYERS: There was nothing in that quote about race. It was an historical fact, an affirmation of the obvious. But critics pounced.

Here is what you had to say in response to our essay.

Thanks for showing the complete video clip of Hilary Clinton's remark about King and Johnson, for the eloquent commentary on it, and for the personal insight into the meeting between Johnson and King. It's amazing how inane journalism has become in its venal quest for advertising revenue.
Tom Shillock

How can you suggest that what Hillary said about Martin Luther King & Johnson was no big deal?! Why did she choose to bring it up during a campaign for presidency? It was an attack on Obama's ability to 'take charge', but it minimized the struggle and power of the black movement. Just think how outraged women would be if someone suggested that it was the Supreme Court that actually made it possible for women to have the right to choose.
Molly Peyman

I have yet to see anyone address the actual substance of the other side of Hillary's comparison. She clearly wants folks to see her as an LBJ type who can get things done because she has the experience. My question is, is this a valid comparison?

Does she have both the legislative skill and Machiavellian knowledge to get something as politically volatile as civil rights legislation passed?
Geoff Sanoff

Katherine Newman joined us to discuss issues with America's economy.

KATHERINE NEWMAN: We worry about whether there's anything we can do to protect ourselves individually. We worry about whether the next generation is going to have any chance to follow in our footsteps. And you add all this up, and it's a big headache out there.

There is no doubt that investment in infrastructure will do less harm than other things, but what we really need to do is to stop "stimulating" and start redistributing in order to redress the imbalances caused by all this easy money.
RE Mant

I must take issue with some of the comments regarding housing/foreclosures during the economic segment this week. Many of these "victims" helped drive up prices to levels unaffordable even to those of us that diligently saved and sacrificed to achieve homeownership. Is it really "their home" to lose if they took out a loan they would never have the ability to repay?
Scott

I covered an array of topics with John Grisham including the state of America's correctional system

JOHN GRISHAM: But when I can take an issue and wrap a novel around it, and make it compelling, make the pages turn and make it very suspenseful, and get the reader hooked up in the book, and also get the reader, for the first time, maybe, to think about a problem from a different viewpoint. Those are the best books.

Remove retribution from the purposes of punishment. Focus on rehabilitation. Help educate people convicted of crimes as well as those at risk of committing crimes how to solve problems, meet their needs, work through emotions such as anger, etc.

The "feel good" emotion of retribution is too expensive. It's what gives us the death penalty, long prison sentences, crappy conditions in prison that are not conducive to rehab, and creates anger in inmates.
Brian Foley

Justice and equity are essential elements of the social contract. Civilization is based on working together for the benefit of all. People need to understand the advantage of cooperative behavior. Nature is based on survival of the fittest while civilization is based on survival through intelligent behavior.
David Eddy

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