I am of the opinion that Mr. Obama is just too young and has no experience to take on the topmost job in the word.
There are too many problems and the Americans are going to need someone who knows what they are doing.

Scot, Edinburgh, Scotland

Mrs Clinton & Mr Obama must try to set an example to the country and the world. How are they going to do that by focusing on what he did she said politics. It is rubbish, it needs focus, focus on the needs of the people that is what good leaders are about.

If they can't set an example the country do not need politics based on personal attacks. What is needed, is full focus on what is, not was. Full steam ahead, from Mr Obama, forget Mrs Clinton clutching at straw. Dont worry about what you did as a boy, it is what you do as a man that counts, that is what we are relying on. The Clintons has been there and there are still people living in poverty, with no health care. So lets have something new, Change!. Just remember how devisive Mrs Clinton can be what we need is unity not more divisions. Stay Focused, and leave her to keep digging the dirt she will eventually damage her own image.

Daphne Kenward, Cambridge, United Kingdom

I thought Obama was going to bring the US together. It sounds suspiciously as if, with the primaries moving into the Old Confederacy, he has decided to play the race card.

Clinton's remarks were almost a statement of fact. To borrow from Cuomo, without the 'prose' of Johnson's legislation, King's 'poety' was just that.

Hugh, London,

The Clinton's are in a glass house throwing rocks when it comes to drug abuse.

Didn't inhale? OK Bill, whatever.

Jack, New York, NY, USA

What Hillary said was absolutely correct, people need to get over this and let's stick to the real issues here... (health coverage, middle class poor, war in iraq...) All she siad was that King's dream BEGAN to be realized when Lyndon B. Johnson, a president that King pulled for to get in the White House, signed the Act. People will twist any little thing around and turn in into a national Jerry Springer episode, come on people!

Jeff Overstreet, Austin, TX

Imagine that the US cannot come up with a better class of people to put forward as the next President. What a disgrace.

George P Cuonzo, chicago, il

One correction/clarification:
The article states that, " Mr. Obama accused Mrs. Clinton . . . of diminishing the civil rights leader's legacy." Not true!

It's been widely reported that initially folks unaffiliated with either camp ( esp. Donna Brazile and Representative Clyburn) were raising concerns about a lack of racial sensitivity in the Clintons' remarks. This was not initiated or orchestrated by Senator Obama's campaign!
Additionally, on the PBS News Hour broadcast of 1/14/08 Reverend Joseph Lowery made it clear that this brou-ha-ha was not started or being fed by the Obama campaign.

EJB, Helena, USA / MT

Roarke is correct. Anyone who lived in America during the Civil Rights struggles of the 60s understands what Dr King did. LBJ and Congress would not have done a thing without the pressure that Dr King and the Civil Rights workers generated. They were the ones who faced down Bull Connor's thugs, the police dogs, the firehoses and ultimately paid with their lives. The "I Have a Dream" speech is considered one of the greatest orations of the 20th Century. I think this is due to its lofty language but also to the hope it held out to African-Americans that hatred and discrimination might someday end.

The Clintons are horrible people who think only in terms of their own power and ambition. These things are worthless without a vision to guide them.

Chris, Glenwood NJ, USA

This was very cleverly managed by the Obama camp and now I have a problem: I am a white woman of a certain age. Now do I vote my skin color, or my gender - or do I vote for the person who I think is best suited to be President? I seriously have always thought that one voted for experience, proven abilities, intelligence. Guess I was wrong!

Linda, New York City, USA

Martin Luther King would have reminded anyone who asked that it was not he who changed anything or anyone - he would have pointed them to his faith in Jesus Christ and to God as the transforming power in men's hearts.

Dominic Stockford, Teddington, Middlesex