I don't get it.

I just read an article in which Sen. Barack Obama was compared to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

What?

Again, this is not a political slice of the World Wide Web, as there's enough of that out there already, but I'm really having a tough time with this one. I'm just not seeing any kind of parallel between this senator from no where and the great MLK, Jr.

Can anyone help me with this????