McCain Booed At Martin Luther King Speech: Watch The Video »
Posted By ybdogsct 6 months, 1 week ago in NewsSpeaking at a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, John McCain said Friday he was wrong to initially oppose a government holiday in memory of the civil rights leader. The comments were met with audible boos and interruptions from many in the audience, as he apologized for repeatedly opposing the creation of a hol
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Beau78906 months, 1 week ago
I'll give McCain this: he at least has the maturity to admit he made a mistake, even if he was only electioneering. That's an improvement over Bush, who would never apologize publicly to anyone for any reason.
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NoWayMan6 months, 1 week ago
thanks for adding in the "even if he was only electioneering."
cause if he wasn't running for pres, he wouldn't be apologizing.
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lovemylibs6 months, 1 week ago
Let me get this straight. McCain apologizes for a racially charged mistake and gets booed. Obama doesn't apologize for a racially charged mistake and gets deified. God love my liberals who don't see the irony in that. More curious is the blindness to the fact that Obama's speech was electioneering to it's utmost.
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ybdogsct6 months, 1 week ago
The problem is this isn't the first time McCain made a mistake and had to apologize for it.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml
"On his campaign bus recently, Sen. John McCain told reporters, 'I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.'"
http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2...
"Richard Quinn, McCain's chief South Carolina advisor in 2000, who edits a racially controversial magazine called Southern Partisan called Nelson Mandela a 'terrorist' and King a man 'whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul.' In another piece, Quinn said of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, 'What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?'"
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AnteUp6 months, 1 week ago
ybdogsct ~
Really? Let's hope someone has video of the Rev.Richard Quinn
for airing during the general election. There were very few
Republicans active in the Civil Right's movement - and that's
a fact. Now that Dr.King and others succeeded with the
voter registration drives....the Republicans want the votes!
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ybdogsct6 months, 1 week ago
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?AC...
In the 2000 presidential campaign, McCain reversed himself on the confederate flag first calling it 'a symbol of racism and slavery' but then pandering the very next day by calling it a 'symbol of heritage.'
McCain campaigned in Alabama for George Wallace Jr., a
popular speaker the Council of Conservative Citizens, whose mission statement reads:
'We believe that the U.S. derives from and is an integral part of European civilization and the European people and that the American people and government should remain European in their composition and character. We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind, to promote non-white races over the European-American people through so-called "affirmative action" and similar measures, to destroy or denigrate the European-American heritage, including the heritage of the Southern people, and to force the integration of the races.'"
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bluetexasvalley6 months, 1 week ago
Damn, ybdog, I do believe Obama's church stole the first sentence of that mission statement with just a few word changes. What do you think?
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mesodude6 months, 1 week ago
Took the words right outta my mouth. And isn't it comical what a high tolerance for "mistakes" and indecision the wildly flip-floppin' GOP electorate suddenly has? When they were slapping that label on Kerry in '04, one might have thought changing one's position on an issue was roughly comparable to trafficking in child porn. "Duuhhhhh...Kerry was for invading Iraq before he was against it." AAaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiggggh! LOL Ahhh.. How quickly con "principles" change with the weather.
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MRCOFFEECAKE6 months, 1 week ago
I would gladly accept his apology for elongating the occupation of Iraq 2 years from now. The problem is, think
of how many will die needlessly once the right thing finally happens and THEN he admits it.
Aren't we looking for leaders who make the right decision in the heat of the discussion?
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wasntme4 months, 2 weeks ago
With McCain America gets a bad version of Bush , a rerun of a bad movie.
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Dionys6 months, 1 week ago
You're assuming we'll even get to vote. Read National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive number 51 --
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05...
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TheRealizer6 months, 1 week ago
Yes this is something I have been talking to my friends about for quite some time. It is scarry.....
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Charlson6 months, 1 week ago
McCain voted against MLK holiday for political convenience and now he's sorry for political convenience. What else is new?
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bluenote15226 months, 1 week ago
Huffingtonpost is a ultra-liberal website that you numbskulls obviously love. He was a prisoner of war when MLK was killed. Every holiday declared costs the taxpayers an enormous amount. But then we can all afford it, right? Let's declare holidays for 365 days out of the year and see how long we last.
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TheRealizer6 months, 1 week ago
We don't need to holiday, we have outsourced the damn jobs, so have no tax base anyhow. What difference would it make????
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ecotourusa6 months, 1 week ago
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although I agree with you, I find it best that we open our minds to all sides. I wish we could get away from this 2 party fiasco.
Dr. Paul is a republican only for the race. http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/04/04/...
I had to become the same to vote for him in the primaries. never in my life did I ever imagine being a republican. i will change my status depending on the outcome of the conventions.
it will be changed to NO PARTY AFFILLIATION! I can't stand the far right or the liberal left.
Dr. Paul is the only deserving candidate for the position of President. the other 3 are literally the same on both sides of the fence.
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ybdogsct6 months, 1 week ago
BLUENOTE:
"Huffingtonpost is a ultra-liberal website that you numbskulls obviously love."
How obtuse can you possibly be? Huffington Post did little more than host a video of McCain's speech. Huffington Post did not pass judgement on McCain's speech themselves; they were simply reporting the judgement and boos that the audience passed on McCain's speech. This is evident from the video clip. Only a profound fool would persist in a state of denial, as you do, in the face of VIDEO EVIDENCE.
BLUENOTE:
"He was a prisoner of war when MLK was killed."
McCain was released from Vietnam on March 14, 1973. His vote against commemorating MLK day wasn't until 10 YEARS LATER in 1983. Are you claiming that in those 10 years McCain had never heard of MLK? You're either inconceivably naive or McCain is inconceivably dense -- or maybe it's a little of both. If McCain really didn't know who MLK was (unlikely), he should have abstained from voting.
Pathetic.
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tchef6 months, 1 week ago
I'm not defending McCain, but here is one thing to consider when looking at the votes of candidates that were made when they were in one representative position or another. In those positions they are supposed to be representing the the people in their jurisdiction. Could it be possible that they voted the way they did because that is how the PEOPLE they where representing at the time WANTED them to vote?
Everyone here should know by now that I am definately NOT a McCain supporter but I am offering up this observation to bring a little perspective to everyone about looking at voting records of candidates.
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uncle-dave6 months, 1 week ago
bluenote1522
John McCain was shot down in 1967.
He was released in 1973.
He was elected to the House in 1982
He voted against the MLK holiday in 1983
Today he said that was a mistake.
Asked on Monday why he shifted his position and later supported a state measure creating a holiday, McCain told reporters that he "learned (that King) was a transcendent figure in American history. He deserved to be honored and that I thought it was appropriate to do so."
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/04/03/mcca...
"Are you like 15 or something?" You words pal, not mine.
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PsychoHosebeast6 months, 1 week ago
lol... you just are about as clueless as it gets, eh? Quit apologizing for this dick... every holiday costs an "enormous amount" (facts left out here of course, left to the imagination)?? Couldn't cost more than the trillions of dollars that this administration has p!ssed away on a pointless war.
Huffington is ultra-liberal? My guess is that you don't read much, or you'd be familiar with what ultra-liberal actually is.
Of course to a Hitler-worshipping toady of George Bush, it may seem that way.
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saintetienne6 months, 1 week ago
"Let's declare holidays for 365 days out of the year and see how long we last."
It's what the Liberals and their welfare-sucking constituency is aiming for. Every day of the year a holiday, honoring some malcontent, or some racially-diversified celebrity or some such crap. They won't be happy until the rest of us join them in their lazy, work-free days of political correctness, sucking off the government teat and living off the government dole. It's called Communism and it's coming to a united states near you.
One thing they haven't thought of, however. After all the companies and businesses have been shut down, the wealthy people stripped of their money, and the citizens are all collecting welfare, who's going to finance all of it?
(crickets....)
Waiting for an answer.
(crickets....)
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mesodude6 months, 1 week ago
OK-You've got to be freaking kidding me, sainte. This from a graduate of the Ronald "Messiah" Reagan Con School for the Severely Brain Damaged?!
You wingers have spent the last 20 years shoving memorial after memorial in recognition of that loathsome vegetable with wrinkles, Ronald Reagan (one of the filthiest, most criminal, subhuman creatures to ever inhabit the planet) down the throats of the American public and you have the nerve to bitch about MLK? You cannot possibly be serious. That's it. The first things on the Democratic party's agenda after November are gonna be MUCH closer scrutiny of so called homeschooling and the evangelicals and a major crackdown on the con crystal meth addict epidemic. You people are absolutely out of control. OMG.
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MRCOFFEECAKE6 months, 1 week ago
So you still oppose it, you and bluenote are bigots.
Why not remove Lincoln's Birthday too?
After all he was a pro-black president and this is a white country. Right??
Oh, his birthday is ok because it is under "President's Day"
and that day is really for Washington and car dealers..
Idiot!
This is a nation of heroes. It is about American pride.
MLK began the painful task of building pride for an entire race that America had degraded and left out.
You want it all to yourself, but we don't honor cross burners.
If your hero would just remove his hood we could see who he is!
Let's instead keep giving $18billion tax cuts to the needy oil companies (OUR TAX DOLLARS), let's keep cleaning up big business pollution sites (OUR TAX DOLLARS) and let's keep killing Iraquis in the middle of their civil war, with OUR TAX DOLLARS..You are a pair of blind hateful fools!
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mesodude6 months, 1 week ago
"Every holiday declared costs the taxpayers an enormous amount."
--Why, bluenote? Why'd you have to go there? Now, did you whip out the accounting books last month when you found out we were gonna bail out Bear Stearns? Huh? Of course ya didn't. Have you reach for the calculator every time Daddy Warbucks starts throwing a tantrum and threatening to invade even more countries unless he gets another hundred billion plus so we can continue babysitting Iraqi oil? Exactly...We didn't think so.
Anyway, your petty and ridiculous post reminded me that here in DC where I live, now is the time of year we locals gather to watch in amazement as bovine, hideously-garbed wingjobs from all over the U.S. stampede the National Mall so that they can all stand around cluelessly, licking themselves and, drooling over the latest multi-million dollar homage to war, slaughter, and death. Cons are never short on funds to blow stuff up or help out their wealthy friends. Astounding.
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dunkirk6 months, 1 week ago
Another REPUBLICAN attempting a foot extraction with toes firmly embedded in the throat.
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Howtogo6 months, 1 week ago
So much for forgiveness when a person makes an error and admits it. These booers I suspect are the free speech advocates that actually hate free speech unless it supports their way of thinking. I don't particularly like McCain or the Dems. possible selections. It is painfully obvious that there is not a clear all around good candidate for president.
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