McCain Lies About His Support For MLK Jr. Day in Arizona
By Nicole Belle Friday Aug 01, 2008 10:00pm
Liar, liar, Grampa McSame pants on fire. Clearly, McCain is not used to the YouTube generation where you can no longer lie without a bunch of bloggers furiously fact-checking. And the facts for McCain, they don't look so good.
McCain Defended Opposition Of Federal MLK Holiday By Saying He Supported Arizona's State Holiday. During a press availability in Panama City, Florida, John McCain said, "I have supported hundreds of pieces of legislation, which would help Americans obtain an equal opportunity in America. I am proud of that record, from fighting for the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday in my state to sponsoring specific legislation that would prevent discrimination in any shape or form in America today." [McCain Press Availability In Panama City, Florida, 8/1/08]
- FACT: McCain Supported Republican AZ Governor's Decision To Rescind MLK Holiday. ABC News reported, "In Arizona, a bill to recognize a holiday honoring MLK failed in the legislature, so then-Gov. Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, declared one through executive order. In January 1987, the first act of Arizona's new governor, Republican Evan Mecham, was to rescind the executive order by his predecessor to create an MLK holiday. Arizona's stance became a national controversy. McCain backed the decision at the time." [ABC News, 4/3/08]
- FACT: McCain Supported Gov. Evan Mecham's Decision In 1987 To Rescind Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, "In a vote likely to haunt him for the rest of his public career, McCain voted against 1983 legislation establishing the third Monday in January as the federal holiday marking King's birthday. Back home in Arizona, he supported Gov. Evan Mecham's decision in 1987 to rescind an executive order creating a state holiday for King, but later reversed his position." [Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/16/08]
- FACT: McCain Voted Against Creating Martin Luther King Holiday. In 1983, McCain voted against a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The motion passed 89-77. [HR 3706, Vote 289, 8/2/83; CQ 1983]
He's tried to back pedal that this was some youthful ignorance on his part, but he was 48 years old when he voted against the MLK holiday. As much as I'd like to characterize 48 as youthful--and trust me, nothing would make me happier, that just isn't going to fly.
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First. And wow. Just goes along with all the other lies.
Welcome to the 21st century McCain.
Great investigative work. Journalism.
Blah, blah, blah, blah blah.
Didn't answer the first questioned and lied with the second question. McScam, McSame, McShame, whatever.
Get off my lawn!!!!
He lies about his voting record for Vets also.
Isn't it funny that the media has played in a loop the comments that McInsane made immediately before his lie (about the race card), but not a word about the lie itself? Not even KO! They wouldn't be trying to help this demented old fool to get into office by covering up his lies! Of course not, they are all "fair and balanced"!!!! What a crock!
Wow. All politicians lie, but this is astonishing. Growing up in Arizona, I remember McCain's opposition to MLK day quite well. If this lie gets any media traction at all this could be a big deal - especially in his home state.
As he runs his fingers along the top of that sign in front of him he stammers and the little hamster in his head starts running at full speed, the wheel is spinning and McBush is trying real hard to think "Ohhhhh fuck.....what have I done for African Americans?....What have I done for African Americans?....crap......stall, buy some time....ask her to repeat the question"
"What was the first part?"
harley @ 6:
He opposed the Webb bill, then didn't show up to vote on it, then tried to take credit for its passage.
Fact: posting facts on a progressive website is just preaching to the choir. They need to go on Obama's Fight The Smears website, which is the only one the lazy-assed press corps reads. Even when posted there, there's only a 50% chance that the press will read them, a 50% chance that they'll report them, and a 50% chance that they'll actually be reported as fact, rather than 'opposition claims.' So, unless we're talking about flag pins, there's only about a 12.5% chance that it will make it to the mainstream news cycle.
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that." - Homer Simpson.
too right...ummm....ummmm.....think, think...what was the question?
Now now, I'm sure there's an innocent explanation. Maybe he meant he was fighting for its recognition as a non-holiday. Or something. Whatever, that's some straight talking, of that you can be sure.
Hey wait!!! I'm 48 and it damn sure it youthful. I have to wait two years to join AARP.
Pericles @ 11:
"12.5% chance that it will make it to the mainstream news cycle."
Well, however miniscule, I guess it beats "overwrought assertions by left wing bloggers."
Pericles @ 11:
Ok. Thanks, didn't know about that site!
Can't blame that on a senior moment. The second question stunned him so much, he forgot the first question. What an old fool.
I am sure I heard him yesterday when asked why he voted agains MLK that he said that it was because he made a mistake. I thought that sounded unusually honest and humbling of him even though he did not elaborate.
He does not even remember yesterday? My dad is 82, and I expect that sort of thing now and again.
Excellent NY Times editorial by Bob Herbert.
Addresses the issue: "who played the race card first?"
(republished at Common Dreams - no reg required)
Running While Black
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/01/10765/
The Rude Bellman @ 14:
I'm now 62, laid off, and sweatin' makin' it to 65 for Medicare eligibility. Just don't get sick or hurt for 2.5 more years. Payin' out the ass right now for "catastrophic" coverage (lost our COBRA) with a $5k ea deductible.
No lie too great for this scum bucket.
Funny, but a couple years ago I actually admired many things about John McCain. However today, I admire absolutely NOTHING about this john mcAncient. He has clearly sold his soul to the devil, and there is nothing honorable about this pathetic politician any longer. A sad day for his followers.
McCain wouldn't feel so comfortable--or so oblivious, perhaps--if he didn't feel he could loosen his belt and say just anything that comes out of his mouth. If the election is fixed already, and who says it isn't, McCain can scratch and fart his way into the White House.
Sure, all politicians lie. That's the attitude the GOP operatives and RNC henchmen are counting on. That this lie will be seen as an individual lie instead of a whole fabric of lies. They're counting on the TV audience only hearing about one or two "gaffes" and 1) believing it's "that politics game again"--such that McCain will be seen as accused of lying about MLK Day instead of actually lying; 2) choosing to disbelieve anything if it is critical of McCain.
Whatever piece of news comes out on McCain has to seem like character assassination. "He didn't say that, he couldn't have said that, it's the media putting words into his mouth, he can't get an even break, if the media says he told a lie it's probably that he told the truth and that liberal media . . . ."
There's just something too Gomer Pyle, too Forrest Gump about the way McCain's campaigning. It's like he's recognizing no boundaries because he doesn't have to. Facts? Hell with 'em. Low blows? Name of the game. Fair play? I will kill you.
(_(_) @ 17:
Prediction: He will get forensically incinerated in the official debates with Obama, and the Court Composers of the MSM will promptly wax rhapsodic about how McCain "won" them.
You just watch.
after what i`ve seen in the past week this lie is biggest one of all i would ask everyone to do what i`ve been doing flooding the MSM with emails and attachments from you-tube hoping that they would start calling him out on his lies! but i can`t do this by myself! the only way the truth can be found about this dishonorable liar is to start posting you-tube information about this clown show the world the truth! let`s bring him down and down HARD! the youth of our country are doing their best we the grownups have to pitch in and help them! this election is REAL FOR ME! i have two african american son who deserve a better goverment to live under so i decided to get involved and spread the word about the PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICA i tell everyone i meet to go too the web site (PNAC.COM) and read the doctrin look at who signed off on it! and maybe they`ll get a better understanding about the plan that old george and his NEO-CONS now with the help of new neo-con john mcsame have planed for us!
Can you imagine how the media would be reacting if Obama was this feeble? Mccain has said one thing that is undeniable, and that is that the media is his base.
youthful ignorance..........bullshxt
That whole ditty was nuts. First, he couldn't remember the question BECAUSE IT HAD TWO PARTS. What a dolt. Then he lied, then he lied again, then he said he'd be proud to show his legislative record on MLK. Nobody called him on it? Hope Obama's campaign is keeping record of McCain's lies.
I think its time to slam Mr. McGoo for where the McCain campaign thinks he has his greatest stregth. They coo endlessly about McCain's glorious "experience" in politics. Well, lets compare him to the most experienced and powerful politician in the Bush Administration. Dick Cheney is simultaneously the most experienced and disgusting unpopular politician in Washington, DC. Lets have a commercial where Dick Cheney and John McCain are compared as THE SAME and sharing similar qualities of experience and contrast it with Barack Obama's judgment. Judgment should beat EXPERIENCE every time!
10 BobbyG Says: harley @ 6:
He lies about his voting record for Vets also.
He opposed the Webb bill, then didn’t show up to vote on it, then tried to take credit for its passage.
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Bush even said at the press conference after it's passage that McCain's work was implementable.
And to think McCain might win. If only people really investigated this guy, they would be running away in droves. The fact is many American people just don't give a crap or are too ignorant. That give chills downmy spine!
He lies more than Bush and Cheney. I didn't think that was possible.
(_(_) @ 17:
Totally. I wish she wouldn't have helped him by repeating the question. She should have just left him there to suffer in the silence of the stunning she put on him with her questioning. Great silence there.
Ruthless@31, Damn straight! By the way, where is Chaney? Seems Mr. 18% popularity is nowhere to be found!
I hope Obama tears this guy APART in the dabates... but he has to do it in a nice way! Otherwise all these cable news talkers will accuse him of beating up on an old man.
I am a 52 year old white male and consider myself young but I'm not a liar or a fucking idiot, both of which John may lay claim to.
Wow, this stammering idiot debating Obama? With skills like that McCain would lose debating a brick wall. This is going to be awesome.
But of course there will be no mention of this in the MSM...they are totally focused on Obama being compared to Britney and Paris and what a great "sense of humor" McShame has.
well, the neocons supposedly consider mandela a terrorist.
i'd imagine they consider mlk, gandhi, mother teresa, jesus & soupy sales terrorists as well.
P.D. @ 33:
he's busy trying to get wwIII started and contemplating how to get rid of that pesky piece of paper the Constitutuion
P.D. @ 33:
He's laughing it up with Bin Laden in his undisclosed location.
Why can't the Obama campaign put together this video with news reports from 1983-1987reporting McCain's contrary vote? What is so hard about that? Why can't it be on the air tonight? I'm getting a little frustrated with this.
constituent@39, LOL! I don't think I have every seen a VP as unethical as Chaney. He and Bush make Nixon look like a choirboy!
Dave H @ 41:
I hate to say it because I supported Obama after Edwards dropped out but Hillary would have ripped McCain a new asshole by now.
You are right of course, Obama is being to polite. If anything we should have learned from 2004, the slime machine works. But remember they tried the same bullshit in 2006, and it didn't work. Maybe Americans are starting to figure that out. But I won't hold my breath,
Polls still aren't counting the young people that have cell phones and don't have land lines.
Cindy McSame "My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all" http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47547-make-mccain-disavow-his-dishonest-ob...
Depends on what your definition of "negative" is.
the only reason az voted for mlk day was cuz they wanted a superbowl
mcwearsdepends had nothing to do with it
Yeah, and Bush was going to be the 'Uniter'. I guess that was before he became the 'Decider'.
P.D. @ 44:
you know the deal sometimes when you react you lose. of course with these people they have a negative reaction to whatever obama does. i hope mccain hangs himself.....i bet obama feels the same way.
P.D. @ 44:
I'm thinking Obama's waiting to see how much it affects him in the polls before coming out swinging. I wouldn't be surprised if his campaign is putting together some jewels of some ads right now getting ready to let it rip against Lying Bastard.....I hope so anyway. I hope he has learned from Kerry's mistakes not to wait too late to respond and to go tit for tat.
why do people listen to poll results from the same asshats who lie to us about every fucking thing else.
the race is not close.
barack will win.
worse than 2006, the people want repugs out.
stop whining and spread the word.
Uncle Joe Mccarthy @ 47:
just like houston wanted a baseball team.
McCain goes way beyond misspeaking or 'gaffes'. He lies. Regularly. Whenever it is convenient.
He lies and says he won't raise taxes because a little girl asks him. He lies and says he supported MLK day when he fought against it. His lying is constant and he gets away with it in the MSM and the mainstream consciousness.
Wouldn't it be great if someone made a political ad of three exposing his true character? The ammunition is piled high and just waiting.
95 days until the election. three weeks until the convention. there's time.
What a fucking liar.
Only SwiftBoaters could make Georgie look strong and John Kerry weak. I still can't believe people took the word from a guy that ditched his duty compared to a man who won a Purple Heart. Sigh.
what was that delay mccain had. it was like he was outside the remote control beam.........wow the questions
are going to get a lot tougher than that.....mcDude
At the end, McCain offered to share his legislative record showing his record of whatever he happened to by lying about at the moment...
Did anyone in the MSM take him up on the offer? Yes Senator Elderpuss, please show us where you authored those "hundreds of pieces of legislation" fighting for equal rights in America?
No? Nobody in the media took the bait? Wow. It's almost as if McCain knows he won't get challenged when he says things so easily proven to be false.
F**king media. The wellspring of the low information voter.
"I am proud of that record, from fighting for the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday in my state to sponsoring specific legislation that would prevent discrimination in any shape or form in America today."
Rove must have explained to him that he's only going to win by wrestling that Botoxed face into a shit-eating grin and lying like there is no tomorrow.
I need some new summer shoes - does anybody know if the McCain flip-flops are
available yet?
if not, SOMEBODY should make 'em really soon and give them away for anybody's
donation to the Obama campaign.
Oops he did it again! Is McCain a compulsive liar?
Compare Sen. McCain to former Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham, who resigned rather than be indicted
some would say 'birds of a feather'
unlike McCain , Sen. Meecham was a self made man, not a beer barbies' toyboy.
notice a spooky similar pattern
NYT obit on Meecham
If there are any Judge Judy fans that read this blog, they will remember that she says the technique of asking someone to repeat the question is a sure sign that someone is about to tell a lie. Repeating the question gives the person time think about the answer they want to give, which is 99.9% of the time a lie.
I am waiting to hear McCain say, "I am sorry to say, that my opponent is playing the race card" when McCain gets challenged about his MLK lies.
Arizona state Sen. Karen Johnson on being confronted by Sen. McNasty when her boss Gov. Meecham resigned.
WaPo link
This man is obviously a stuttering, semi-ignorant buffoon.
Maybe america will see this one day?
ALL IN THE SAME NOTE!
1st, Barack is attacked by McC*nt
2nd, Barack is attacked by the 'left' for getting involved in 'trench warfare', aka fighting back!
3rd, Barack is told to 'get on his boxing gloves'!
Is that schizophrenic or what?
JC @ 67:
"Get off my lawn!!"
JC @ 67:
make sure you show it to the americans you know.
Obama had better be preparing some hard-hitting ads highlighting all of the McCain lies and inconsistencies, including the MLK holiday. I'm sure there's a clip out there of wacko Gov. Ev Mecham calling black people "pickaninnies" (which he did) before his infamous ouster from political life in AZ. In addition, many people know nothing about McCain's crooked connection to the Keating 5 scandal...Arizona has a plethora of McCain stories to be told.... when will they all be brought to light? Come on, Obama!
The whole McCain MLK Day opposition is blown way out of context. Many politicians in Arizona, Democrats and Republicans were against the holiday because of the way it had been illegally created by the outgoing Governor Babbitt by executive order, which you can't do in Arizona. The state legislature voted not to have the state holiday and Governor Babbitt just ignored that. Then, all Hell broke loose.
At the next general election, there were no less than three referendums about establishing an MLK holiday. All of the “yes” votes had different provisions, which means the “yes” votes were split and all of the referendums were defeated. Thus, Arizona was derided as a racist state, even though no other state had (or has, I believe) established an MLK holiday through public referendum. At the next election, when there was just one referendum regarding the MLK holiday, it pass overwhelmingly. As far as I know, Arizona is the only state where a direct vote of the people, not the legislature, established an MLK holiday. And, if I recall, McCain was very much for the holiday when it was created legally.
BobbyG @ 69:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7YTf08xjpE
BobbyG @ 23:
What debates ! McCain will no doubt field a surrogate at the last moment.
or McNasty has four weeks left until the RNC retire grampa and field their real candidate in St. Pauls
McCain is such a liar. I can't believe it. He has to be loosing it.
EVERYONE knows his stance on that holiday. I heard about his stance on that years ago.
I don't think McCain can remember reality accurately any more.
(_(_) @ 17:
You are right. I noticed the same thing too. He is damn fortunate the interviewer helped bail him out. Otherwise, we may still be waiting for his answer.
McSame misspeaks, gaffes, lies, and makes sh!t up. If he told the truth or even if the media reported truthfully what he says and does, he would already be toast. The MSM, including the NYT, is still his base.
Dave H @ 41:
that assumes two things, one a competent campaign staff, not friends of friends of DC people.
and two the cajones to actually get down and fight dirty at the Republican level.
2000 and 2004 showed politeness loses campaigns, and loses the respect of the emotional voter.
It pointless campaigning nicely and cleverly for the elite 5% , when 50% plus wins the vote.
Chimpys TANG, drug booze and other pre 2000 crimes would have made him unelectable in any sany country.
Not4McSenile @ 74:
Thirty years of prescribed mind altering drugs and his advancing years does the job nicely
There is an old Persian proverb that says that God's first punishment for liars is that they come to believe every lie they have ever told.
Of course he lied!!!! The media will overlook it as usual. He an honorable man, a war hero, blah, blah, blah...
ferrofluid @ 66:
After reading that WaPo article, I can only hope that somebody pushes the right buttons and we see that sanctimonious hot head explode on national television. The debates would be a good time to see it happen.
Anybody else get the feeling we are watching a remake of the Monty Python sketch of the pugilist boxer fighting a small girl in the ring !
oncall @ 81:
The RNC will never allow McCain to go one on one with Obama before the TV not live at least,
if it does happen it will be recorded and edited ala the CBS McCain travesty the other day.
The mouth-breathers don't give a crap about the truth now, and they will care even less in November. After the repukes paint Obama as the scariest black man ever to be on the planet, he won't have a chance.
Democrats have to turn out the vote like never before. They hold the numerical majority of declared voters, and must vote in massive numbers to beat the mouth-breathers who will do everything in their power to prevent a black man from becoming president.
Always remember this. If you, dear reader, are simply average, half of the country is less intelligent, and therefore less discerning, than you.
the truth to the straight talk express-
it's always been double-speak.
mcLIAR is just that.
Well he remembered that he supported something to do with MLK Jr. in Arizona. For this poor old decrepit senile cot that's doing pretty good.
Being 48 myself I believe I'm well qualified to vouch for the fact that it isn't youthful!
Seriously, I don't know what's more frightening: The fact that he was willing to lie about something so easily busted, or the fact that he thought he could get away with it and gain some votes from the ignorant. Even more extraordinary, are the ads he's using to appeal to every inbred bigot out there. ZERO respect.
Obama said he was a fighter. He said he was from Chicago and he knew to bring a gun to a knife fight. Well, Barack, so far nothing. It is time to run some tough ads. You have plenty of material with McCain's own video clips being forgetful, making mistakes and out right lying. Hang him with his own words. That isn't dirty. It isn't a smear. It is bringing a gun to a knife fight. So far Obama is just taking the punches just like Kerry did.
Typical fake christian republican liar.
McKamikaze doesn't give a shit about burning bridges, Arizona, or the Senate. He's got a rich junkie wife to take care of him and change his diapers if this doesn't work out.
This is his last chance and he'll do whatever it takes to be POTUS.
Calling McCain a liar is becoming a tiresome refrain. Check what he says more closely and watch him as he talks. He really believes what he's saying. So, how come the contradictions? The answer is obvious. He forgets.
I'm getting along in years and, more and more, I forget. I'm not lying when I contradict myself. I'm FORGETTING!
But, then, I'm not running for president.
he is a repub
he is for corp america and the have mores not the people
the sad part americans will line up in droves to vote for him
kind of like self destruction
until americans overthrow deregulated capitalism this will continue
decades away from that
first must sink to bottom of economic hole
I nominate George W. Bush for Worst President in United States History. And John Mccain for Worst Presidential Candidate in United States History. If Mccain would happen to win I will kill myself.
The CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA still gave McCain a pass on his lie about MLK birthday, can you think of what would happened to OBAMA being cought in a lie like that. Wall to Wall coverage 24/7 about OBAMA lying.
The McCain Campaign has kicked the only black reporter covering his campaign out. It seems he and some other WHITE reporters were in a restricted area, but the black man was the only one asked to leave the campaign. That is until a white woman reporter asked why he was kicked out. Then she was kicked out.
The McCains just don't like uppity black folk, or those that defend them. But don't go getting the idea that they are racists or anything. It's not that at all. They just don't like people with skin darker than Cindy.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/08/only-black-reporter-kicked-out-of.html
almost feel sorry for the guy.
Can you name a presidential candidate who has not lied and who has carried out all his promises? Can you name a President that has not lied? It goes with the job, the party political system is all about persuasion, illusion and image, about calculating how to get power, truth gets in the way.
What did Obama retract? I didn't get that part and cant find any retractions anywhere.
McCain also backs legislation benefitting our veterans, don't you know?
here we have a person running for he presidency on honor and his ability to protect and he's a liar. No need to give this to one digit iq middle america, they will twist and bend the truth to suit their tastes and keep their "hero" a hero. Rather, this needs to be put out there for African Americans to digest and determine in reality whether this candidate is really in their corner. Personally, as a minority in this country, i wouldn't trust him or what he says one iota.
Big Surprise that McSame is just another typical, elite, Reslug liar.
Is there time for a brochure/book: THE TRUTH AND LIES OF JOHN MCCAIN
(read it if you dare to really know)
when you are 100.... 48 is youthful
.....and being smarter than bush isn't much more of a recommendation
Pericles @ 11:
Post it on "Townhall.com" where all the conned-servatives post. It'll get read there by the MSM.
McKook thinks all that shuckin' & jivin' and Forrest Gump shufflin' is Reagaesque.
He tries the Reagan 'soft spoken' approach when his demons are boiling inside like Nixon.
McReagan is a phoney.
OMG Is there actually people that want to vote for this senile person ?
Technically, McCain's statement is true, though highly deceptive. In 1989, he supported an Arizona state law for a MLK holiday, while opposing a federal holiday.
And his quote refers to his state.
It's disgustingly deceptive.
First all we heard about Obama was that he was not Hillary.
("Obama supported Lieberman" - "yeah but Hillary did too and she is much worse.")
Now all we hear is that he is not McCain.
What we don't hear much about is who Obama might be.
In favor of off-shore drilling.
Votes for FISA.
Waffles on commitment to withdraw American forces from Iraq.
Is against reparations for descendants of people who were forced into slave labor in the U.S.
(He'll make up for it by putting money into schools. Uh huh.)
Lectures black people on how to raise children.
Votes for Patriot Act.
We're supposed to vote for this package of wrong because he's not McCain.
Good luck.
No wonder we don't hear about him.
Senator McCain is THE best candidate for the Presidency! He will continue the great work started by President G.W. Bush and move us safely into the next decade. Without his strong Republican leadership, America is in grave peril at the hands of the terrorists. They hate our freedoms and want to destroy us and all you left wing nuts can do is try to undermine the effort by taking his words out of context and claiming he lies. Obama will hand this country over to radical Islam as he is a product of them and was brought up for this purpose. McCain will assume the presidency, no matter how hard you try to unseat the Republican party, your efforts are nothing more than amusing.
Repubforlife @ 109:
Thank you Adolf...
As I noted when digby quoted this same "fact-check" item (after which she pulled this one), the purported "fact" that
strikes me as, er, somewhat problematic -- at the very least requiring some explanation. (In the 100-member Senate, the purported vote labeled "fact" would be an outright impossibility. McCain was in the 400+ -member House at the time. I'm no parliamentarian, but it seems odd that a motion to suspend rules can be passed in the House with <40% of Members voting (either way; only ~20% of total membership voting for passage). But who knows? Does the House have no quorum requirement?)
Also striking: in 100+ comments, nobody seems to notice this apparent implausibility.
If mccain was ever an honorable man, and could open his mouth without lying, it was so long ago, he doesn't remember what it feels like. I'm frankly tired of his constant references to his time in captivity, it brings me no pleasure the he was tortured, no one should be tortured, ever!! The msm goes on about it like he volunteered to be tortured to save thousands of lives.
People have only flirted at the truth. McCain opposed the MLK holiday until national outrage and a boycott of Arizona made it clear the state's stance was hurting the family beer business. Bud and the NFL are inseperable and that was threatened. His principles on this issue are as clear as they were on the Confederate flag.
Check out Jake Tapper on ABC this morning saying how he has been watching for race as an issue throughout this campaign. He was so eager to get Obama to admit the "dollar bill" comment had a racial element that his Hawk like eyes missed this big lie from McCain.
McCain, talking about himself in a video clip, says "it doesn't take allot of talent to get shot down".
So much for his military acumen!
well, let's forget MLK day, for a second.
the question was, has mccain sponsored ANY effective civil rights legislation?
if so, what?
Repubforlife @ 109:
That was Awesome. I bet you can't say all that with a straight face.
At least he doesn't lie as much as Obama.
Rickard @ 118:
Wow, words escape me.
You do know McCain voted against MLK day don't you?
McCain lacks Bush's skill of dodging questions by playing dumb. McCain just looks painfully uncomfortable when he does like the questions
Just want to point out as well, besides his MLK day support lie.
Once Johnny Mc thought he was on a role expressing all the vague things he has done for Afro Americans.
The uppity in him came out,
John is proud. He is proud of himself for supporting issues he doesn't specifically recall. But he is proud of himself !
Where he should be proud of those he represents that gave him the opportunity, the trust, the vote, and paid him well to represent them in Washington.
Did John ever give favorable consideration of those in his state that disagreed with the Lobbyists, the GOP, or those who had issues that did not vote for him?
You see, although John is republican, he should still be boud to represent those that disagree with him. When has the Maverick done this? Speciffically?
what a retard
Oh...., um...., (long and uncomfortable silence, for anyone who is still awake) uh.... Bush's third term!
fil @ 120:
You have to remember John McCain is one of those old school jackasses that believes you should blindly respect whatever someone in authority tells you and never question it. That's why you will see him get flustered and angry and pretend like he is taking some high ground by not admitting he is a liar. He is got to be by far the worst candidate ever nominated by his party in the history of politics. His personality is repulsive.
He voted against the federal holiday but supported the state holiday. Which is more deceptive: McCain saying that he supported the holiday, or sites like this one conveniently omitting his stance on the AZ holiday legislation?
In this clip McCain lied about Obama retracting the race card comment. Obama didn't retract anything. MSNBC's First Read blog busts McCain:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/01/1242393.aspx
This would be one of those perfect "catch him in a lie" moments that would make a great TV commercial except that the GOP has already nullified it. By accusing Obama of "playing the race card" to the point where Obama came out insisiting he wasn't, they've taken this subject off the table as effectively as Pelosi taking impeachment off the table. Any mention of the topic now will be seen as evidence that McCain was right about the race card assertions (his lies being totally overlooked in the process). Yet another nice move by the GOP in making Dems look like idiots.
Shared Humanity @ 35:
sorry but you're not young at all. you're old.
Youthful ignorance, you got to be kidding me, 48 is old. Senator McCain, when are you going to learn?
McRacist!
Too bad the video quality is terrible, it looks like Sindy chuckled to herself a bit when McCane said "I fought for the recognition of Martin Luther King's birthday in my state."
I think we have to start agreeing on what reality is at this point ... when a presidential candidate lies so often and thus far unapologetically, we have to call him out on it ... normally, that's what our `free press` would be doing, but they're either slacking off, are playing favorites or are just bought and paid for by their corporate masters -- take your pick ... this country's going to hell in a handbasket, and I'm having a hard time figuring a way to stop the downward spiral ... [ADDENDUM] That the majority of the corporate owned mainstream media is giving McCain a free pass on such blatant lies is telling of a deeper problem that we must address ...
Unlike Barack Hussein Obama, John Sydney McCain knows how to say he is sorry or that he was wrong. That is one of the reasons I will be voting McCain for POTUS in November.
SEN. McCAIN: John McCain's a proud conservative. John McCain--by the way, on the Martin Luther King issue, we all learn, OK? We all learn. I will admit to learning, and I hope that the people that I represent appreciate that, too. I voted in 1983 against the recognition of Martin Luther King. It became a huge issue in my state. I'm proud to have been--because we didn't recognize Dr. King--I'm proud to have played one of the leadership roles in seeking and obtaining the membership...
MR. RUSSERT: So you regret that vote?
SEN. McCAIN: I regret that vote.
Not to worry. He will get no sympathy from black Ameica and we will be showing him just that, come November, you must believe that.
It is my hope should McCain be the next president that he bring down this nation further than his predecessor. Then maybe, just maybe we will all be on the same page. And even conservatives will see the light as dems, progressives, and liberals already have. That the GOP has been and will continue to be the driving force that has lead this land to the bottom.
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No Comment!! Im a decider...
I don't have a crystal ball.............just look at Fla. gov Crist, who will be prez one day if Mcain gets elected.
Who cares about Martin Luther King anyway?
Does anyone really care about this person King?
"His comments were clearly, were clearly the race card because of what he said."
What does that even mean? How can comments be a "race card?" And what circular reasoning. His comments were the race card "because of what he said?"
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