[h/t Jack & Jill Politics]

Up is down, left is right, the sky is green and grass is blue. I don’t know what the hell is going on anymore. Pat Buchanan praises Obama?

While Cornell West and Tavis Smiley diss him for not mentioning MLK, even though he did, and running from history, even though he didn’t?

It looks like he’s running from history,” Dr. Cornel West, a professor of African-American studies and religion at Princeton University, said after the speech. “He couldn’t mention Martin, he couldn’t mention the civil rights movement, he couldn’t mention those who sacrificed and gave so much. It’s very, very difficult to actually create a new world if you don’t acknowledge the world from which you are emerging.

You know if Obama had mentioned MLK by name more than once, West and Smiley would be all, “how dare he insinuate he’s as great as MLK?” Read this from his speech:

And it is that promise that 45 years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a mall in Washington, before Lincoln’s memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream.

The men and women who gathered there could’ve heard many things. They could’ve heard words of anger and discord. They could’ve been told to succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred.

But what the people heard instead – people of every creed and colour, from every walk of life – is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one.

“We cannot walk alone,” the preacher cried. “And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”

Ok, Obama didn’t say Martin Luther King’s name, but the reference is obvious, and did you catch that allusion to Langston Hughes, “so many dreams deferred”? The man even brought black art into the mix and fools wanna talk about “running from history?

Get outta here! I am seriously confused right now.