McCain voted against MLK Day at almost 50 years of age!
Check out John McCain trying to wiggle his way out of the fact that he voted against MLK day back in 1983. John McCain was born in 1936. He was how old, how old---hmmmm---let's see...maybe 47 years old I think. He was almost 50 years old and he voted against MLK day! You see he needed just a few more years to figure out the impact MLK had on our society. He certainly can't say in this statement that he was young and inexperienced. Nope, he has to give the impression that he was young and inexperienced since it was his first year in Congress---so he studied and learned and studied and learned until it dawned on him. And then he suddenly realized he made a big mistake.
McCain: I voted in my first, I think it was my first year in congress against then... I began to learn and I studied and people talked to me and I not supported it but I fought very hard in my home state of Arizona for recognition against a Governor who was against my own party.
And what else did he say?
“I had not been involved in the issue. I had come from being in the military to running for Congress in a state that did not have a very large African American population and it had not been in issue. It just simply had not been.”
In a February 2000 interview with ABC News, McCain said his initial opposition to a holiday was based on his belief that “it was not necessary to have another federal holiday, that it cost too much money, that other presidents were not recognized.”
He didn't follow teh Blacks all that much because they didn't really exist in Arizona.
The not usually very good Jack Tapper makes the same points on McCain and MLK day.
Tomorrow Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by speaking in Memphis on the 40th anniversary of King's assassination.
He will no doubt sound a bit different than he did in April 1987, when McCain was interviewed by USA Today about his five and a half years as a P.O.W. "They never gave us any meaningful news," McCain said. "They told us the day that Martin Luther King was shot, they told us the day that Bobby Kennedy was shot, but they never bothered to tell us about the moon shot. So it was certainly selected news."
Surely the John McCain of 2008 would not hold that the assassinations of King and Kennedy were not "meaningful." (UDATE: McCain's top aide Mark Salter says McCain didn't mean "meaningful" in that interview, arguing that what McCain was trying to say was that the Vietnamese always gave the prisoners bad news from home, not good news.)
In fact earlier this year, McCain told a different version of the story of how he heard of King's assassination...read on
scum
The fact is, among people who would support a McCain candidacy, voting against MLK day is not a negative.
I just heard him speaking in Memphis. He admitted that what he had done and many in the audience yelled to him, We forgive you.
MSNBC is going on and on about Obama not being in Memphis today like Hillary and McCain. The reason he isn't there is that he is where Bobby Kennedy spoke the night of the day that Martin Luther King was killed.
“I had not been involved in the issue. I had come from being in the military to running for Congress in a state that did not have a very large African American population and it had not been in issue. It just simply had not been.”
this doesn't pass the sniff test.
come on mccain, you have some pretty high priced political whores telling you what to say, and this is the best they could scrounge together?
Yeah, intelligent people get this. I mean, I have never been a US senator, but I get and support MLK Day. But what will the MSM have to say? Hmmm....
"Senator McCain? Your free pass, sir. Testicle polish while you wait, sir? Very good, sir."
GOP The party of HATE!
Sounded like he was heckled today for it.
Wait, wait, wait... I thought McCain said he voted against MLK Day because he was opposed, in principle, to another federal holiday. (You know how hard senators like to work!) When was this flip-flop?
it is friggin infuriating that, in the msm, rightwing circles, and the clinton cabal, the words spoken by pastor wright (who, btw, is NOT running for prez) are covered more than the actual words of mccain (who, btw, IS running for president).
racist buffoon
mccain is one of the most shameful members of congress, which includes that dirtbag murtha...
they're only up there stuffing their pockets with public money.....
lecherous, traitorous, there aren't enough words to describe their corrupt behavior....
mccain has the temper of a 5 year old kid, taboot.
who needs that?
Samson- @ 4:
The best campaign supporters that Lobbyist can buy.
"In fact earlier this year, McCain told a different version of the story of how he heard of King’s assassination…"
He might have confused it with the story of how he heard of McKinley's assassination.
Terry740 @ 6:
Well, the hits just keep rolling in on old John. He doesn't like:
Middle Easterners
Asians
Russians
French
Blacks
and thats just off the top of my head...
The one argument against MLK day that ever made sense to me was that there shouldn't be a day celebrating a single man when there were many people who did great things for our civil rights. So instead there should be a "civil rights day" much like how the president's birthdays were all consolidated into a "President's Day".
Sadly I don't think many GOP think about MLK day in those terms.
He won't release his medical records and refuses the Secret Service protection.
This guy might be dying and this is his farewell tour.
Sid @ 2:
I guess it's like McCain said ... Where I came from, we just didn't have a large African American population, and it had not been an issue. It just simply had not been. He seems to have had his blinders on for everything except war. Must have been tough for him when he realized there were people in America that weren't white.
The reporters on his plane are stupid - they should have immediately follwed up with - "In 1987 Did you not know who MLK was? Most school kids knew."
So should we be concerned about a Presidential candidate whose only interested in some issues? What else does he need to learn?
People, please, please, please remember to vote for a Democrat - any Democrat - in November.
This Repuke guy, mccain, is simply too old, too ill, and too much of a doddering old fool to be the president for very long should he be elected, and he will be replaced by the VP. It is the VP choice that mccain makes that is potentially scary, and that will tell the country just what the true agenda of the Repuke party is. Just hope the choice is not jebbie bush or huckabee.
BTW, a supposedly competent adult, who mccain should have been at age 47, who voted against honoring MLK is a racist, plain and simple. Don't let his verbal obfuscation convince you otherwise.
Sid @ 2:
bingo..
also, one could make the argument that he was simply voting in line with his constituency....
The schmuck is a card-carrying agent of intolerance, for fook sake.
The more he talks, the more it looks like he got into Annapolis because his Daddy and Granddaddy were Admirals.
We're still stuck in this movie and they want to force us to sit through the sequel!!!
He's an incompetent fraud. End of fookin' story. This is no Country for clueless old men.
I had come from being in the military to [dumping the woman who raised my kids so that I could marry a rich young beer heiress who could fund my] running for Congress...
FTFY Grandpa
Speaking of McCain and other idiot Republicans, when do we get to see how much money McCain raised in March? I heard a clown on the cable news yesterday say it might be a problem for Obama ih he were to "raise too much money." Even if we forget about the money--Obama brought 218,000 new donors and probably non-GOP voters to the game. And you thought it was tough being a Republican in 2006.
I find fascinating his remark about what he was and wasn't told by his captors.
Things in America (anti-war sentiment among the people uppermost) began to radically shift in 1967. Indeed, when "the country went to hell in a hand basket during the '60's" crowd invokes that tired refrain, it's generally the late '60's they're talking about. Remember Bush saying he liked the Beatles until they went "all weird"?
McCain missed it all.
So, his excuse is that he had little awareness of the details of the civil rights movement? He's saying he didn't pay attention to it because it didn't involve him directly. And he didn't bother looking into it before the 1983 vote, because ... he was lazy, I guess.
What a self-centered, ignorant jerk.
In a February 2000 interview with ABC News, McCain said his initial opposition to a holiday was based on his belief that “it was not necessary to have another federal holiday, that it cost too much money, that other presidents were not recognized.”
I didn't realize MLK had been President.
MCCAIN: "When they told me that Bobby Kennedy had been killed I teared up a bit. When they told me that Martin Luther was assassinated I thought they were torturing me. I knew he died of a stroke and that they were trying to make me think that it was February 18, 1546 when I knew it was somewhere around February 18 of 1968... and when I found out we had the Moon shot I thought to myself, 'Why the hell would we shoot the damned moon?' Needless to say, my friends, those little bastards knew how to torture!"
frank bonas jr @ 17:
I am sixty years old ,I remember the "white only" water fountains, the "colored" entrances to stores to keep them separate from the white customers, separate but not equal schools, working for wages that could only be lower if they were still slaves. I remember crying as a small child in Winn Dixie as a tall, razor thin old black man signed his payroll check with an x because he couldn't read or write. I cried because this man would never know the joy of reading that started for me in the third grade and has enriched my life to this day.McBush never saw them for the very reason I seldom saw them , because the "colored" weren't allowed to be near the "white folks" unless they were doing some type of work.
McCain associates with racists, has racists on his staff, seeks the endorsement of racists and says racist comments. He only claimed to support MLK Day when he found he could benefit politically from it. A racist and an opportunist. I'd love to see it when he lets slip some racist "cottonp..." comment during a debate with Obama.
Is this a new one? McFishOutaWater
You know, 'cause he flippin' and floppin' all over the place.
pissed off patricia @ 3:
I heard part of McCrazy's speech, and it was all about him, and I thought this was MLK's day. Another reason Obama might haved stayed away is, It is about MLK, not Obama.
McCain voted against the MLK holiday and against gay rights. I guess there were no gay people in Arizona either, not even in a big city like Phoenix. Is McCain a bigot and a homophobe or simply pandering to the bigoted, homphobic base of his electorate. Either way you cut it the GOP is the party of intolerance and hate.
AZ is a beautiful state, but boy is it weird. They also don't observe daylight savings time. I'm sure his racist attitude is a "plus" for him with most repubs.
He's an idiot... Just not surprised he would take that position on MLK at 47....37 or 87.... He's an old skirt chasin, trophy wife totin cut-out caracature of a pathetic Reagan type politician. He was a second rate pilot with a poor record at Annapolis who spent a lot of time burnishing a sketchy reputation and somehow turning a small amount of actual flight time and combat missions and loss of jets shot out from under him or just wrecked thru poor piloting, somehow turning this sad resume into a chestful of medals and some kind of phony reputation for individualism that he has either abandoned or never existed in the first place. A vote for this lyin jackass is a vote for pie in the sky. It's a vote for a phony feel good grandpa figure that just has no connection or relationship to reality....Whatever John McCain is at 72, he ain't no leader, he ain't fit to be president of this nation.... JD
Yet , you and at least half of the "pro life" crowd decide to try and ban abortion when you're not women ; how does that work , you wrinkled old skid mark ?
lipstickhottie,
They also don’t observe daylight savings time.
You'd think a racist would crave more daylight...
I suppose it's the sudden change back to it getting dark earlier that really bugs `em.
emphasa @ 15:
A lot of everyday people worked REALLY hard for our civil rights, but how many of them were the public face of the struggle? How many of them had J. Edgar "I'm a closet homosexual" Hoover audio taping them and sending said tape to their spouse, with the message that they ought to go commit suicide?
Did anyone notice the Black man in dayglo vest holding the umbrella to protect Senator McCain from the Rain at the Memphis MLK museum speech this morning?
That he had a "servant" to hold his umbrella seems strange given that his hands were free during his speech. That the "servant" doing this was a black man who seemed uninterested at best was even stranger. It seems the Senator had a not getting wet dream.
Damn, Clinton should gave the speech of a lifetime but MSNBC cut her off.
CNN ran it.
Go figure.
One of the reasons Republicans have been re-electing mcCain to Congress for so long is BECAUSE he voted against MLK.
If he admits now that it was a mistake, he will hemorrhage even more GOP votes.
Ex-Canuck @ 19:
Second that!!!
Chico Hussein @ 40:
Dobsons head will blow off...Hahahahahahahahahaha
Isome Hussein @ 37
Well, off the top of my head: Malcom X, Cesar Chavez... Of course if you're referring to "the struggle" of African-Americans, then I guess only Malcom X and MLK would apply. However I'm sure the civil rights of latinos should count too, right?
Terry740 @ 28:
You're right. The separation existed. White and Black neighborhoods only. I remember my mom calling me and yelling, what is that "n word" doing on our porch. When I responded that he was a friend of mine from school, she just yelled, get him away from here and never invite him here again. What will the neighbors think. It took me time to figure out her prejudice and is something I'll never forget. We've come a long way since then, but it's sad to see that the same prejudices still exist.
Does John McCain have cancer? Will his vice president end up running the United States? Are we really voting for McCain’s vice during this next election? McCain has a lot of questions to answer. Will McCain commit fraud and submit false health records?
Will voters see the danger in not knowing the true state of McCain’s health?
The 25 to 30 percent who support Shrub and will vote for McCain will find this story motivation for them to hit the polls in November.
Get a grip, you guys are desperate. Isn't this site always complaining about how the MSM is not talking about the real issues?
Fast forwarding to the latter years of McCains Presidency. "Well it was my first year of the Presidency, and I was not all that up to date on economics, and from my financial position, (due to my wife), I did not really know about depressions. Being the first time in charge, I was not really up on what strategic nuclear bombs would do to the environment. Most importantly, trying to catch up on things, it was not really my expertise on why racissm...."
Perhaps hypothetical, but for a war monger, who was tortured and should have been up on that, he still voted for Bushco policies!
DC @ 45:
This sounds like something ripped straight off the headlines of The Enquirer...
DC @ 45:
As I stated in an earlier post in this thread ( currently #19) this is the MAJOR issue people in this country should be thinking about in regards to the mccain candidacy. And in November, the Clintonites and Obamaists should put aside their animosities and differences and vote for the Democratic Party candidate.
this guy has been getting a free pass, maybe because he was POW, maybe with respect to his age, maybe because the dems don't really view him as a threat. Their line of thinking, after eight years of dishonest with the Bush crime syndicate, how could any republican candidate who espouses the bush philosophy have a snowball's chance. my answer to that, never underestimate the idiocy of the american people. they have short, selective memories. If you go to sleep at the helm they will slip this guy in to bush's seat. When will the real onslaught on this pretender begin. is it time yet to take off the gloves. I think in a month or two. give him some more time and hope the dem candidates don't gnaw off their own body parts in the interim.
Samson- @ 4:
Speaking of "political whores", check out this quote from one of McCain's chief foreign policy advisers, Henry Kissinger:
"Today America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered L.A. to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." Bilderberger Conference - Evians, France 1991
And here is an excellent quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance or conscientious stupidity."
thepoetryman @ 49:
No, McCain will not answer questions about his health. So is he healthy or not?
He has had cancer before. Did it come back? He will not say.
The question still stands. Is McCain still healthy?
http://www.markfiore.com/mccain_iraq_2008_0
chris @ 47:
The MSM covers issues in a superficial and politically appropriate fashion. The same people, echoing the same viewpoints and when they make a blatantly false statement, it passes without being challenged. The public will never be truly educated about the issues unless they use their computer to access other sources of information. Until you query various sources of information and then analyze the content, you'll never get to the true facts of an issue. If all you're going to do is listen to CNN, MSNBC, etc. you might as well turn your brain off and go to sleep.
frank bonas jr @ 55:
okay, now what does that have to do with my comment, why us C&L covering this issue?
Abbybwood @ 52:
eeee, i never know if i should laugh or cringe when i read anything by hank 'the war criminal' kissinger.
evil? kissinger knows about evil every time he gazes into his mirror.
and another thing 'every man fears' is henry 'the war criminal' kissinger returning to the scene of the crime as a foreign policy advisor.
why is he not in jail?
Abbybwood @ 52:
If I remember correctly, Henry Kissinger has been indicted for war crimes. Nice guy to have on your team to advise on foreign policy. Link TV had a nice documentary on him titled The trial of Henry Kissinger. To bad the MSM wouldn't show it. It might just open some eyes.
chris @ 56:
Obviously reading and comprehension are not part of the curriculum at Troll High...
chris @ 56:
Apparently, I misunderstood your comment.
Yeah, John. It's like there are hardly any Blacks at all in the military, eh?
What really gets me about his running for congress "...in a state that did not have a very large African American population and it had not been in issue."
As a white person, it seems to me that the holiday is so that EVERYONE will recognize the contribution Dr. King made to human kind. Not so that black people can say that there is a holiday for one of their own.
McShame seems like he had fallen into the trap that the holiday is not important to white people too!
The Dude @ 59:
Please don't interrupt my conversation unless you have something meaningful to add. Now again, why is this even an issue?
McCain booed during MLK speach http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/04/mccain-booed-heckled-at-m_n_950...
Closes speech invoking The Lord!! I doubt McCain would bring up The Lord if he were addressing a group of rich white country club Republicans. I guess McCain thinks he can con those African Americans into overlooking his voting against MLK by invoking The Lord.
While I was not alive during the Vietnam era, I am pretty sure that black Americans were one of the majority groups fighting in Vietnam. So, for McCain to say:
“I had not been involved in the issue. I had come from being in the military to running for Congress in a state that did not have a very large African American population and it had not been in issue. It just simply had not been”
poses the question of whether he was really in Vietnam. Many African American veterans, from the Vietnam era, have acknowledged how prevalent racism was in spite of the fact that they [black and white soldiers] were fighting on the same side.
Apparently McInsane did not encounter this side of Vietnam to want to initiate change when he had the opportunity.
chris @ 63:
It's another example of McCain's lack of conviction about anything. But if you want to talk about issues, let's talk about how much it will cost to occupy Iraq for 100 years, like McCain wants. That's a lotta taxpayer dollars, no?
i think the only meaningful news you might look for when you're a POW is "when the hell am I getting out of here?"
If I was a POW and I heard that a civic leader was killed. I don't think I'd consider it meaningful either.
Some of this article has weight and other parts of it are really absurd.
What the hell does tehblacks mean? Well, I know what "teh" is, but why do people use that? The English language is pretty versatile, I don't think we need to reduce ourselves to intentional misspellings that only younger net-savvy folks know the meaning of, to everyone else it looks pretty dumb.
To the troll:
Uhh, because McCain is obviously unfit, just as Bush was unfit, to lead a racially diverse, hugely broken, and complex free society when he's so obviously self-centered, near death, and can't even finish a thought without it being written right in front of him? Anytime he tries to go even slightly off script he sound's even dumber then Bush. It's really amazing...
chris @ 56:
today is april 4. look it up.
Who is this colored whippersnapper, Martin King? Some sort of a rap star or something?
-Confederate Grampy John McCain, (adjusting 3 foot long nut sack with arthritic hands)
He voted with his heart. He wasn't in favor of MLK day and he voted against it. Did you ever think that his constituents ( the majority) wanted him to vote that way? Of course they did. The majority, which then were made of white males, were against MLK day. Now that the blacks have multiplied, by aid of the federal government, they have a louder (not larger) voice.
McCain has the right to vote on behalf of his constituents who he is in touch with. He isn't afraid if it isn't politically correct.
He can handle it if there is disagreement.
then he wasn't out of touch but now, I sorry to say I think he is. I just believe he is a man of courage.
He voted with his heart. He wasn't in favor of MLK day and he voted against it. Did you ever think that his constituents ( the majority) wanted him to vote that way? Of course they did. The majority, which then were made of white males, were against MLK day. Now that the blacks have multiplied, by aid of the federal government, they have a louder (not larger) voice.
McCain has the right to vote on behalf of his constituents who he is in touch with. He isn't afraid if it isn't politically correct.
He can handle it if there is disagreement.
then he wasn't out of touch but now, I sorry to say I think he is. I just believe he is a man of courage.
Interesting... Public Enenmy's "By The Time I Get To Arizona" came up on my iPod Shuffle yesterday. Reminded me of this.
Um...he was in Arizona and that's like a whole other part of the world. How could he possibly be expected to know who had an impact on American society. Forgive him and give him a pass. He's from Arizona. They practically don't speak English or have American TV and newspapers down there. They speak and read Arizonan and all they're aware of is Arizona, because they're in Arizona, not the United States. There's Arizona, and then there's the United States. Are you beginning to see how you too can excuse him and pass him. Give the man credit. People talked to him and told him about Dr. King because once he got into Congress, he was OUT of Arizona and it was like a whole new world that discovered - A...WHOLE...NEW.....WORLD and this NEW WORLD had Black people in it. God in Heaven above! His eyes were OPENED!
Terry740 @ 28:
I'm not that old, but I had a tiny stroke as a side effect of some surgery. It was hard enough recovering from it, but I don't know what I would have done if I had lost the ability to read. Stories like your old black man make me incredibly sad and MAD!!! I'm WHITE & I've been saying that I don't see what the Rev. Wright said in regard to the treatment of black people & other minorities & countries that was incorrect. ( I thought that what he said about the U.S. creating AIDS to wipe out the black race was a little nutty, but then there's the case of the U.S. giving the Indians smallpox laden blankets, so I dunno...)
Here's another great quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. (found in today's Hartford Courant):
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
I just heard gramps speaking at the MLK ceremony at Memphis. It's one thing to be lackluster when you are a senator of a very conservative state, but he makes Bob Dole the orator Anthony Hopkins aspires to. If he can stay awake during a debate with Obama he'll get his head handed to him. I dont think this guy can hold his own in a real debate. While I dont think gramps is a racist, he wouldn't hesitate to sell out any minority or gender if it got him one vote.
Maverick - closeted - racist
50 years. 500 years. whatever. McCain would vote against his mother if he thought it would get him elected.
Age 47. That is the same age as Obama will be when he is sworn in as president.
Sen. Maverick, you are no leader, just a follower. The mistake was that you followed the bigots on this important vote. When the political tide turned you changed your vote because it became most appropriate for you....hardly the move of a MAVERICK. John, you looked so uncomfortable trying to explain your gutless bullshit stance. Just be a "maverick" and admit that you were a bigot who didn't think that commie n#*^%er deserved a damn holiday.
He should have figured out how to be a good president by the time he's about 108.
You call that wiggling?
Here's some wiggling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-JwiNhtK_Y&feature=related
chris @ 56:
"Cause Fox has American Idol, white missing girls, and the Obama is black issues all locked up.
Smallpox infested blankets.
Foreign aid conditional to abstinence only policies.
My ex was in the Navy around the same time as McCain. Adm. Elmo Zumwalt instituted a huge program to deal with racial issues. All enlisted the men were required to particpate, don't know about officers. But I do know my ex was shocked by the racism rampant in the Navy at that time. I suspect McCain is the kind of racist who honestly thinks he has no bias.
chris doesn't seem to want to talk about the astronomical cost to taxpayers of McCain's "100 years in Iraq" plan.
Curious, since he said he was very concerned with non-MLK issues.
John McCain - the perfect example of why Barack Obama is so right when he says judgement is more important than experience.
Rusty 100 Years in Iraq! Shackleford @ 86:
Look how long we've been on Korea and Japan, thats the way it is, how much will is cost to give everyone free-health care, housing, education, baby sitting, etc?? More than it will cost to be in Iraq..
chris the freedom lover @ 88:
Yes, we've been in Korea and Japan for 50+ years now. And that was... why, exactly? And we'd need to occupy Iraq for another 100 years because... uh, why is that again? Because it takes them that long to "stand up"?
Personally, I'd prefer that taxpayer dollars be spent to improve the lives of Americans, like with health care, instead of on military welfare for countries that can't take care of themselves. Maybe we just differ that way.
We wanted to make sure that today when Senator McCain speaks, you and your friends and family know who's talking.
McCain will bring his "Service to America" tour to Memphis on Friday, but many people don't know the service he touts includes voting against the federal holiday honoring Dr. King. In August 1983 he fought the holiday, voting to block a piece of bipartisan legislation honoring him that was supported by even conservative Republicans--including Dick Cheney--and signed into law by President Reagan.
McCain went on to resist recognizing a King holiday in his home state of Arizona. When Arizona's state legislature failed to pass a bill recognizing a holiday honoring Dr. King, the governor at the time, Bruce Babbit, created the holiday by executive order. Babbit's successor, Gov. Evan Mecham rescinded the order as his first act in office, doing away with the holiday. John McCain's response? He defended the governor, not Dr. King. (After undoing the holiday, the same governor went on to publicly support referring to Black people as "pickaninnies").
In 1990, seven years after his initial vote, McCain went along with establishing a King holiday. On the campaign trail in 2000, facing questions about his history on this issue, McCain declared he had "evolved."
Looking at the rest of McCain's public record, even recently, it's hard to see much evidence of an "evolution". In fact, McCain has consistently opposed a civil rights agenda:
He voted an amazing FOUR times against the Civil Rights Act of 1990--a bill designed to make it easier for employees to prove job discrimination and imposing harsher penalties on bosses who discriminated.
In 2004 he opposed affirmative action in college admissions--a key component of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that is among King's key legislative victories.
He has voted at least 8 times against raising the minimum wage.
And as recently as last month, he argued against federal intervention to help Americans, disproportionately Black Americans, who have faced foreclosure during the housing crisis.
If John McCain has evolved, he hasn't evolved much. Instead, we see a consistent and troubling pattern. From campaigning against Dr. King's holiday to undermining important civil rights laws, John McCain has not stood side by side with King's vision, he has stood in its way.
Today, we hope that everyone will take a moment to pause and remember Dr. King's legacy, recognizing his contributions of words, deeds and ultimately his life. And we hope that all can see past political posturing (regardless of who it comes from) and embrace the bold, challenging vision that King actually projected. We believe that in doing so, we honor both his legacy and his sacrifice.
-- James, Van, Gabriel, Clarissa, Mervyn, Andre, and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
April 4th, 2008
chris the freedom lover @ 88:
Iraq is costing half a billion dollars a day fool. Didn't you learn any math at Liberty University?
chris the freedom lover @ 88:
We're only in Korea because we screwed it up, creating a DMZ that we have to help police. So. Korea also gets us near Communist China.
We're in Japan primarily because they're trading partners, so now we have to defend them and we're protecting our routes, particularly in the Pacific. When we wrote their constitution we wrote away their army, so now have to provide the protection.
Our continued presence in Iraq is a goad to violence not peace. Even if we could pacify them afterwards our continued presence is not needed for our own foreign policy. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, sometimes Turkey and Israel are areas which keep us in close contact with the Middle-East.
McCain claims (brags?) that he doesn't know anything about economics, and for that the MSM praises his candor. Math is hard!
McCain claims that he "forgot" al Qaida fighters aren't being trained by Iran. Then he repeats it three more times. The MSM chuckles at the 71-year old's "senior moment." All four of them.
McCain now claims that he's "learned" about the race issue, even though he was 49 years old when he voted against Martin Luther King day in 1983.
Is ignorance as a virtue? Only if you're John McCain, according to the MSM.
fiver @ 91:
They won't let you count past 6,000 at Liberty. It's a sin.
John McCain was an idiot at age 20, 50, and 70. And, he'll be an idiot when he's in heaven with all the other Republican jesus freaks shaking down the angels for slush money.
Look at the way ABC and corporate networks continue to apologize and give McCain a pass vs. Obama.
ABC's Obama pastor headline:
Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11
Obama's Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Has a History of What Even Obama's Campaign Aides Say Is 'Inflammatory Rhetoric'
ABC's headline for McCain voting against MLK Day:
"MCCAIN REGRETS MLK VOTE"
Keep in mind, that's Obama's pastor, NOT Obama himself! And keep in mind that was ACTUALLY MCCAIN!!!
If ABC treated Obama like McCain, their headline would've been:
"Obama disassociates himself from pastor's rhetoric"...which is exactly what he did!
But NO!!! ABC says, "God Damn" and "9/11" in their headline with Obama's pastor!
McCain continues to get a pass from the "conservative media", which is what rightwingers call the "liberal media": ANBCBSNNX.
YOU MEAN PEOPLE ARE FINALLY REALIZING THAT HIS REAL NAME IS---->
JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN....
and that he would govern and torture and lie in the spirit created by....bush cheney rummy condi snow fliesher
JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN....
does anyone else think he looks like a PEANUTS character?
a really old PEANUTS character?
a really old REPUBLICAN peanuts character?
Martin Luther King had actually existed when McCain turned 50?!
I didnt even think thumbs existed when McCain turned 50.
DC @ 53:
DC,
Gotcha.
I just meant that it sounded like a tabloid, not that it wasn’t a valid multi-part question… I do think it is about as valid as the McCain age question. He may live to be a hundred…He may die tomorrow.
I don’t think McCain has cancer. Had…yes. Has? I don’t think so, but to assume a candidate running for president will lie about his health to have his name appear in history books or to hand the reins over to the vp is less a question and more complete speculation.
The relevant and hard question we should really be asking about McCain? Is he a Muslim?
You do NOT have to be a racist to oppose the holiday.
I have not a prejudiced bone in my body was was, and am, opposed to the holiday.
a) Believe it or not, NO holiday is a free day off work--NONE! Ask your Economics professor.
b) The obvious pandering of this holiday rubs me wrong. There is no holiday for Washington, Lincoln, JFK, etc., etc.
Even the combined Presidents' Day has been even further diluted. EVERY college gives the day off for MLK Day,
but almost NONE now give off for Presidents' Day or even VETERANS' DAY.
Those are two of the biggest of several reasons to legitimately oppose such a holiday. You DON'T have to be a racist!
I will say this: just as someone constantly wrongly accusing you of being a cheater can make you want to cheat,
I hate ANYONE of ANY color that wants to CRY racist every time someone has an independent thought.
And to the idiot who said McCain would torture like Bush: open your mouth again and show your TOTAL IGNORANCE!
Just one of many who learns NOTHING about a candidate other than the initial after the name.
Anyone want to cover bets that McSame has a few credit card slips from the Sambo's Restaurant in Santa Barbara? (All the others have closed - go figure)
Anyone?
Anyone?!
Im from Arizona, and the majority of people in Arizona didn't want the state to recognize MLK day (and it is still not a holiday there). He's the senator and he voted forwhat his constituants wanted. How does that make hima racist? A holiday does not mean he did not recognize the impact MLK had on our country. Its a freakin' holiday. Get over yourselves. You guys are just nitpicking and trying to find something wrong w/ McCain because he's the republican candidate. Just stop it. This polarizing of America is whats wrong w/ this country, not any specific party.
McCain also recently got a pass from the media when he voted against banning torture. McCain voted FOR that horrendous pro-corporate bankruptcy bill, too. AND McCain voted FOR telecom immunity. Obama voted the opposite on all 3. Obama was against the war from the start, and McCain is McBush III on the war.
As far as MLK being a holiday, if there is ONE person there should be a holiday about, it's MLK! McCain's reasons were NOT because he "didn't like holidays" in general. Yeah, right! He voted for having Christmas as a holiday...when he was alive at the time of Christ!
Then let's get rid of Christmas as a holiday, too! Let's have a vote on that! I'd rather have a holiday for the greatest American who lived, MLK, than Christmas, which is for a religion that isn't everybody's religion!
Jonas, what about McCain's votes on banning torture, that bankruptcy bill, and telecom immunity...care to explain those?
The REAL McCain: http://therealmccain.com/
Why isn't McCain releasing his medical records? And why isn't McCain supporting the GI bill? This guy is Bush III, wake up everybody! And he's getting a pass in the media on everything!
Some say, "Well he was a vet"...well how about how the media smeared/swiftboated John Kerry?
Reasons for us to think McCain is racist....if not....insensitive to race in America
1. He said he won't vote for a nat'l holiday to celebrate MLK
2. He said that MLK's assassination wasn't "meaningful news"
3. If he was in the class of '54...or whatever...how many black ppl did he graduate with (TRICK QUESTION)
4. If Black ppl don't live around you says McCain...then their issues basically don't matter
5. He said that there are too many federal holidays....no room to have one for someone who was shot in the head
6. He said that other Presidents aren't recognized...implying that for MLK to deserve a holiday....he should have either been a President so we can remember him on President's Day...or...that there are too many federal holidays...but there is always room for one for a former President
7. This list is getting long...that's reason enough to think
8. He apologized for his improper vote today on the 40th anniversary...is there anyway that if he thought that this was wrong...that he could have apologized for it say....24 hours to 14 years earlier?
9. If he is so strong in his convictions...Mr. Straight-Talk should have said that he voted that way...and he stands by his decision...not that he's sorry.
10. Wow...that Black guy holding the umbrella...no white ppl around huh...or even hold it yourself...lol
11. He voted against it multiple times
12. He was an adult when he voted against it
13. He had the audacity to say that he didn't realize MLK's impact on America yet (1983)....so Mr. Reagan...where did all those new Negro representatives in D.C come from...they were'nt there before the War??
14. Fuck it...He's racist...if not....he's insensitive....if not...he's stupid....and unqualified to be President of All of America...maybe White America...but not me or mine.....
Also, for those of you above who are "apologizing" for McCain's vote against MLK Day, you must feel McCain is now betraying you...because he apologized for voting against MLK Day! Are you mad at him for apologizing and having the opposite stance as you want, now? Based on him apologizing, I guess he betrayed you!
He also called orientals "gooks", where's THAT story? They'll dig up Obama's pastor from 7 years ago!
Is McCain trying to out-stupid Bush? If so, he's doing a great job
INSeAnhanNITY @ 81:
When is that, next week?
MkKkain
So the moon landing was more important than the death of King and Kennedy? His time has just passed him by. Please go and enjoy the great-grandchildren.
I'd like to know to know why Bobby gave Hoover permission to wiretap King? Is it because of he and Jack's sexual escapades, that Hoover may have had knowledge and threatened to expose?
McCain needs to stop touting his military record. He’s the son and Grandson of Admirals. That pretty much says that his performance was mediocre, since the military gives sons and daughters of General and Admirals legacy points. How do I know? I am retired military. So if you check the records, you will see that sons and daughters of Generals and Admirals tend to make General and Admiral pretty easily. And remember this: Generals and Admirals are politically confirmed. So they have to be politicians to a certain degree. As for McCaine’s POW self exploitation: Being a POW pretty much says that something went wrong, because he was captured. Either he surrendered like a coward, or he screwed up, or he got his butt kicked, or the mission was screwed up. I’ll bet that either he surrendered, or he screwed up. I see nothing special about the man. He and George Bush are from the same ilk.
Jonas @ 106:
Say What??!!!! I'm from AZ, as well. MLK day is a state holiday in Arizona. Governor Bruce Babbit signed an executive order in 1986 making MLK day a holiday in Arizona. East valley goofball Governor Evan Mecham rescinded MLK day in 1987 - his first act in office - that and also him making inappropriate racist remarks was such a national embarrassment. He finally got drummed out of office 15 months into his term. The rest of the East Valley cronies in office managed to keep MLK day off the calendar until finally, in 1992 it was put on a ballot, Arizona became the first state to vote in the holiday by citizens.
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