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Posted by: ybdogsct 1 year, 9 months agoSpeaking 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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Beau7890
April 4, 2008, 4:28 p.m.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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TheRealizer
April 4, 2008, 4:31 p.m.I am afraid that the powers that be have annointed McDim to be our next puppet in chief. This will guarantee that the naked agression in the middle east is not interupted......
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Charlson
April 4, 2008, 4:34 p.m.McCain voted against MLK holiday for political convenience and now he's sorry for political convenience. What else is new?
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bluenote1522
April 4, 2008, 4:51 p.m.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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dunkirk
April 4, 2008, 5:01 p.m.Another REPUBLICAN attempting a foot extraction with toes firmly embedded in the throat.
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Howtogo
April 4, 2008, 5:02 p.m.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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aceofspades1
April 4, 2008, 5:03 p.m.We all know Mccain has ball bearing on his ass & will turn any way the wind blows.
That stated, at the risk of being called whatever, I believe the MLK holiday was just made for political reasons.
There is no other national holiday named for an individual other than Columbus Day, which is being changed to exploration day or something like that.
Washington & Lincoln's birthdays have become the generic "President's Day" - I believe a better name for MLK,s bday would be something along the lines of "American Equality Day"
The continuing use of MLK Day is an affront to all the other American patriots who have made the sacrifice but are not individually recognized
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not2needy
April 4, 2008, 5:11 p.m.If i'm not mistaken, Arizona was one of the last states to recognise MLK's birthday as a holiday. How wrong could he be?
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quackpot
April 4, 2008, 5:23 p.m.To have made such a mistake in judgment forty years ago is one thing.
The sad part is that after 40 years of history, with M.L.K. Jr.'s lasting legacy of nonviolent victories over the terrorists of the 1960s, McCain still does not understand the relative power of diplomacy and nonviolent approaches to solving human problems as opposed to the use of war to blow things up.
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bluenote1522
April 4, 2008, 7:27 p.m.I think Jesus still has a day for Him. But the Libs are working on nullifying that as well. Drop the old white man knock on McCain. I hope to be one one day. Don't any of you have parents that you respect their wisdom that they have aquired through experience? I thought you Libs were for equal treatment for everyone. Or is it for everyone that you agree with?
Why is my previous post at -5? What point(s) was I off on? You liberals are into mutual masturbation on the most idiotic stuff but I say something and you don't disect it, debate it, you just dismiss it.
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bluenote1522
April 4, 2008, 8:21 p.m.yb, McCain was dealing with the economy of AZ. Holidays are expensive and you have to be exclusive. Who else get's a named holiday for themselves? Lincoln, Kennedy(s), Washington, Reagan, Elvis, Dimaggio? It wasn't anti-black. Huffington is a HUGE liberal and I am sad that you can't acknowledge that.
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aceofspades1
April 4, 2008, 8:23 p.m."but I say something and you don't disect it, debate it, you just dismiss it."
Bluenote - ybdogsct did a pretty good job of doing exactly that. Did you notice he didn't call you a numbskull or masturbator, he just showed sympathy for you in stating the obvious state of your being - "pathetic"
BTW I don't neg anybody, least of all insecure cons.
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bluenote1522
April 4, 2008, 9:24 p.m.ace, I didn't use The M word as you mean it so backoff. You know that but you are acting as if I am name calling, Numbskull was out of line but why no direct argument other than coat tailing on (yb) who doesn't know the history of President's day. At what point do we say you are a hero but we can not have another holiday designated? Go gather around your holiday tree and forget the Ten Commandments in public but get specifically sensitive on MLK. It must be so simple in your world.
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bluenote1522
April 4, 2008, 9:28 p.m.Just to note when you were putting me down for namecalling you referred to me as "pathetic", "insecure", and a "con". Two way street?
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bluenote1522
April 4, 2008, 9:31 p.m.Arianna and Chris Matthews used to be people I could listen to but they have been skewed to the left so drastically I don't recognize them. They are playing both sides to their advantage. $$$
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nikkibabe
April 4, 2008, 11:13 p.m.McCain is a big hypocrite. If at age 31 he did not know who Dr. King was and what he had done, he is not fit to be the President of USA.
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ETproductions
April 5, 2008, 1:12 a.m.Is that why people support a candidate? He's sexy! He uses words I can understand! If all that is true, this experiment in democracy is doomed.
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Ria1066
April 5, 2008, 4:05 a.m.As I sit here reading the comments on this blog, I realize that things in America will NEVER change when the race issue comes to the table. It's really disheartening to know that people in America are still stuck on stupid about race. If Bill O'Reilly and the likes make comments, African-Americans are supposed to let it ride and not be offended. But, if Al Sharpton and the likes make comments, African-Americans are supposed to denounce the things they say. Such a double standard! Funny though, we dictate to other nations how they are supposed to be CIVIL towards each other...and yet, we're not CIVIL towards each other. What a HYPOCRITICAL society this country is! I think that Americans should learn TOLERANCE in their own nation before they decide to tell the rest of the world how to think, live, and just be. We have no right to tell ANYONE how to behave, until we can behave like CIVILIZED PEOPLE towards EACH OTHER!
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jumpmaster
April 5, 2008, 9:55 a.m.The people who booed McCain are racists, right? Isn't that how it works now? If you disagree with someone of another color then you are racist. If you are white and you don't like Obama, you are racist, right? If you are black and you don't like McCain, you are racist, right?
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bluenote1522
April 5, 2008, 12:04 p.m.yb, In your world Lincoln's birthday as a holiday was eliminated. They homogenized the holiday and labeled it generic and you think it is still just for Washington?
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