Does Barack Obama's election represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream?'

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Spike Lee
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' "It's not like this thing has disappeared because {President Obama} is in the White House,"
	9/14/2009 9:47:50 AM

The Boston Globe
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' "Much remains to be done to achieve racial justice, but on the eve of the Obama inauguration, progress needs to be acknowledged as well."
	1/26/2009 9:22:16 AM

Barbara Boxer
	Barack Obama's election does represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' Tuesday, that long-awaited, long-fought-for dream of equality was realized.
	1/24/2009 2:44:25 PM

The Philadelphia Inquirer
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' They face the same challenges that they did when King lived - disproportionate poverty, violence, crime, joblessness, homelessness, inadequate health care, and failing schools
	1/21/2009 5:14:49 PM

Bono
	Barack Obama's election does represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' On this spot where we're standing 46 years ago Dr King had a dream. On Tuesday, that dream comes to pass.
	1/21/2009 3:36:26 PM

Donna Brazile
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' "...the Rev. Martin Luther King's dream that one day all people will be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin is alive and within reach."
	1/21/2009 3:35:29 PM

Sean Combs (Diddy)
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' "...there are so many -- so many more elements of his dream and his speech that still needs to come to fruition."
	1/21/2009 10:01:50 AM

New York Post
	Barack Obama's election does represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' There can be little doubt that Obama's victory represents a stirring affirmation of King's dream of racial harmony.
	1/20/2009 12:42:02 PM

Martin Luther King III
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' "Though it carries us further down the path toward equality, Barack Obama's election does not render my father's dream realized"
	1/20/2009 12:41:17 PM

Joan Walsh
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' If King were alive today, I think he'd have marveled at how little racial politics, particularly ugly racial polarization, ultimately played a role in the election that chose our first black president.
	1/20/2009 12:41:09 PM

The Dallas Morning News
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' Lists many ways in which more must be done
	1/19/2009 7:59:41 PM

Antoine Fuqua
	Barack Obama's election does represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' "I think Barack Obama is the 'dream'"
	1/19/2009 7:59:36 PM

The Plain Dealer
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' It would be naive to suggest that this nation's willingness to elect Obama means that it has evolved into the colorblind place King imagined.
	1/19/2009 7:59:31 PM

The Oregonian
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' It will not mark the sudden arrival of what dreamers call a "post-racial" world.
	1/19/2009 7:59:26 PM

Grand Rapids Press
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' The inauguration Tuesday of the first black President of the United States, Barack Obama, is a stark reminder of how far we've come as a nation. But we've still got a ways to go.
	1/19/2009 6:48:10 PM

Michelle Malkin
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' "MLK’s legacy is not yet complete"
	1/19/2009 6:47:46 PM

Quincy Jones
	Barack Obama's election does represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' "this is the dream"
	1/19/2009 6:47:05 PM

Alvin F. Poussaint
	Barack Obama's election does not represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' Obama's election does not solve the many problems facing the African-American community.
	1/19/2009 6:43:17 PM

George W. Bush
	Barack Obama's election does represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' This moment is especially uplifting for a generation of Americans who witnessed the struggle for civil rights with their own eyes, and four decades later see dream fulfilled.
	1/19/2009 6:42:46 PM

Kevin Rudd
	Barack Obama's election does represent the fulfillment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'dream.' Turned Martin Luther King's dream into reality...
	1/19/2009 6:42:16 PM