McCain on my TV splainen why he voted against the MLK holiday

[NNN0LHI]

Real nice John you knucklehead.

Don

[tridim]

1. All I see are umbrellas.

:rofl:

[Bill219]

2. the crowd did not like him at all

[npincus]

3. did he get heckled? did you hear what they were saying?

[tridim]

4. I couldn't hear what they were saying

But they weren't happy, and McSame was quite annoyed.

[TlalocW]

5. This is what I'm most looking forward to

McCain is all smiles and joking for the most part right now because he's having his ass kissed by the media, but when he finally gets a democratic opponent - and either Obama or Hillary can talk/think circles around him - he's going to lose his cool.

TlalocW

[GodlessBiker]

8. Yep. Just that crazed look will be enough.

[Supersedeas]

6. spin Repig spin

[madokie]

7. he came on right after Obama speech and I could only take about a minute of ole's aces bullshit

I say to him and to the re:puke:s as a whole, Get the fuck out of the way, you've had your chance and have shit in a mess so go the hell away.

[chat_noir]

9. Think Progress has video

McCain Faces ‘A Little Bit Of Heckling’ During MLK Speech

Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Memphis to commemorate the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. As ThinkProgress has noted, as a congressman in 1983, McCain voted against legislation creating MLK Day.

Most Republicans (including then-Rep. Dick Cheney) supported the bill, later signed by President Reagan. McCain complained it “cost too much money, that other presidents were not recognized.” He eventually came around to supporting the holiday in a 1990 Arizona referendum that failed.

In his speech today, McCain tried to explain his misguided vote by stating, “We can all be a little late sometimes in doing the right thing”:

We can be slow as well to give greatness its due, a mistake I made myself long ago when I voted against a federal holiday in memory of Dr. King. I was wrong and eventually realized that, in time to give full support for a state holiday in Arizona. We can all be a little late sometimes in doing the right thing, and Dr. King understood this about his fellow Americans. But he knew as well that in the long term, confidence in the reasonability and good heart of America is always well placed.

During these statements, some in the crowd said, “We forgive you,” but many others began loudly objecting to McCain’s comments. CNN reporter Soledad O’Brien called it “a little bit of heckling.” Watch it:



http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/04/mccain-mlk-heckle/

[yardwork]

10. McCain is part of the establishment that murdered Dr. King

McCain has a lot more to apologize for than simply not supporting the holiday.