The photo op of McCain on the balcony in Memphis is infuriating!!!!!! It's bullshit!!!

[jeffrey_X]

He voted AGAINST making MLK day a national holiday and then he shows up the place where he was murdered for nothing but political gain!!!

WHAT A CROCK OF BULLSHIT!!!!!

I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS OUTRAGED SINCE THE WAR STARTED.

BULLSHIT!!!


/rant

[Cant trust em]

1. What a crock.

These guys have no scruples.

[nichomachus]

32. Bad juxtaposition

You sig photo with what you wrote made me think you were saying the Dem candidates had no scruples. Nice photo, but the proximity to what you wrote is misleading.

[Cant trust em]

33. that's pretty funny, yet unfortunate.

I was going to change it, but the editing time frame has lapsed. Shit.

[gateley]

2. I would LOVE to hear that addressed in an

interview, while he's trying to sing MLK's praises and paint himself as such a staunch supporter of civil rights.

Paging Helen Thomas!

[Eurobabe]

24. what about in a nice juicy commercial!?

:evilgrin:

[leftynyc]

34. Now THAT is a 527 ad

I'd be happy to donate money to.

[gateley]

40. Ha! Me too! nt

[Eurobabe]

45. Oh yeah, McShame, bring it on!

:evilgrin:

[gateley]

39. Even better! nt

[babylonsister]

3. Yes, it's bullshit. The good thing about it is we all recognize that.

And he's doing what politicians do, as much as we resent it.

[OhioBlue]

10. the other good thing

is that Dr. King inspired a nation to move toward racial equality.

And even right wing blow hard politicians that might have fought or do fight us on it, at least have to recognize that it is no longer acceptable to be against civil rights for all Americans. (at least not in obvious ways for them....)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. It's just plain ghoulish.

[Whisp]

5. I am so glad Barack didn't go there.

McCain and Clinton stained the event with their lieing stinking status quo asses trying to weasel egg-suck some of MLKs good work.

it just hit me now how absolutely vomitous it was for those two to be there.

[Zachstar]

6. Well he is just setting himself up for an ad against him.

The chances of McCain winning against Obama diminish faster than Clinton now!

[charlie]

7. Some chutzpah, eh?

He did a mea culpa for his vote. Couldn't deliver 3 lines without flubbing it ("member" for "memory"). Just another McCain 180 to throw on the flip-flop pile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLt9XpMsxQs

[bow-tie]

8. Where is it? Link? n/t

[jeffrey_X]

20. just saw the highlights on CNN. some crowd members actually boo'd him

good for them.

[DearAbby]

9. Wasn't

it McShame who voted no to MLK National holiday? The hypocrisy is thick on the GOP. What a whore.

[NDambi]

11. We know what McCain is...I think he may get 5 black people to vote for him..lol

and that will leave 5 for Hilda.

[Ilsa]

12. A snip of the video along with voice-over audio of

McBush's voting record on the MLK holiday will make a fine campaign ad for Obama.

[DeadElephant_ORG]

13. PHOTOS

[11 Bravo]

23. Good to see that he could find a brother to hold his umbrella for him.

Nice image, you tone-deaf old jackass!

[Lint Head]

14. He and his 100 million dollar wife do not give a shit about the

minority poor. He is a opportunistic liar. :dem:

[Window]

15. Oh no he didn't!!!

Ugggghh!

[maximusveritas]

16. Was the person shouting "we forgive you" a plant?

Wouldn't surprise me.

[liberal1973]

17. McBush is desperate

:rofl:

[fascisthunter]

18. McCain Voted Against Making MLK day a National Holiday

and now he decides to use the day for a political photo-op. No shame at all.... what a phony turd.

[Cant trust em]

25. He told the audience, so I guess he gets points for not covering it up

but then he got booed, which was hilarious.

[fascisthunter]

26. Oh That's Good

He actually was honest enough to admit he voted against it. Of course I only think it's good he got booed, not that he decided to be honest about something. In my book, he'd have to do much more than tell a truth in order to make up for the mountain of lies he's told in his career.

[Cant trust em]

28. just in terms of balance, I'll give him an iota of credit on this issue

but he's got a lot of explaining to do.

[Cant trust em]

19. Then he got booed

Pretty comical to listen to.

[quantass]

LOL! How deplorable!

[rox63]

21. Wasn't AZ the last state in the US to finally accept the MLK holiday/ n/t

[SoonerPride]

30. They lost a SuperBowl over it. And U2 embarrassed the state publicly.

It was a huge controversy.

[jobycom]

31. Sadly, no, but it's got a twisted history

South Carolina finally made it a state holiday in 2000.

Arizona's legislature refused to make it a state holiday, but Governor Bruce Babbit signed an executive order creating a holiday. When Evan Mecham took over the next year, he canceled the holiday, telling--and I promise I'm not making this up--African Americans in the state "You people don't need another holiday. What you need are jobs."

After boycotts, Mecham finally agreed to sign the holiday as an unpaid holiday. There was a legal issue involved--since the legislature had not passed it, no state funds could go to pay for it, meaning state employees could not be paid for it.

Some states call it something else, like Civil Rights Day, and some used to combine it with Robert E Lee's birthday, for some unfathomable reason. Well, some racist reason, anyway.

Once Reagan signed the holiday into federal law, all federal agencies had to observe it--the delays were in states making it a state holiday. State and federal holidays don't have to agree with each other, and frequently don't. For instance, George Washington's birthday is a federal holiday, but many states call it "Presidents' Day" instead.

And don't think too well of Reagan for signing it. He opposed the bill and swore he would veto it, but Congress passed it with a veto-proof majority. For some reason he signed it after that.

More than you needed to know, and more than I usually know, but I did some research on MLK and Washington days recently.

[leftynyc]

35. Thank you for that

It's always better to understand the history of something. I appreciate it.

[FrenchieCat]

22. That's America politics for you......

Were we lynch Black pastors no matter what good they have done in their lives,
and we revere White politicians no matter how mean spirited they are.

[ProSense]

27. McCain's problematic race record

McCain's problematic race record

by kos
Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 11:10:37 AM PDT
John McCain voted against the Martin Luther King holiday in 1983. Asked about today, he made a startling revelation:

(Video)

<...>

McCain was 32 when King died. He was 47 when he voted against the holiday. He claims he didn't know about MLK that entire time? That it was merely "an issue"? The reporter is right, this wasn't an issue, it was basic knowledge of American history.

Yet even at 47, McCain still had a lot of "learning" to do before he'd change his mind on MLK, as Steve Benen notes:

If McCain "began to learn" and "studied" after his opposition to the King holiday in ‘83, he was a very slow learner. Four years later, he didn’t fight against a governor or his own party; he endorsed the governor’s move to eliminate a King holiday.

Six years after his House vote he began supporting a state holiday, but still opposed a federal King holiday. Eleven years after his vote, he tried to strip federal funding from the MLK Federal Holiday Commission. Seventeen years after his vote, McCain publicly endorsed South Carolina’s right to fly the confederate flag over its statehouse.

Now, in the interest of fairness, it’s worth noting that McCain ended up, years after the fact, in the right place, and reversed himself on practically all of his previous positions. Better late than never, I suppose.

Now McCain claims he fought his own governor, Benen (who I trust more), says he didn't. So does ABC News' Jake Tapper:

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.

So he's a liar. And worse than that, it speaks volumes that he considers MLK not a giant of American (and world) history, but "an issue". I'm sure McCain, Trent Lott, and George Allen would all agree on that.

[SoonerPride]

29. McCain is not some "nice old war veteran."

He's a racist fucking pig.

[uponit7771]

38. I don't know if he's a racist but his race record doesn't look good at all. The "gook" comment...

...bothers me to no end

[bow-tie]

43. McCain crashed 5 planes

before the NVA put him down, how's he a hero? Sounds more like a fuck-up to me?

[indepat]

36. McShame has or knows no shame

[uponit7771]

37. McSame isn't a black preacher talking about Americas racist past so he gets a pat on back by media

[Metric System]

41. Who, wait a minute! You're out of line here!!! How DARE you attack McCain,

when you should be busy attacking the Clintons!

[jeffrey_X]

42. huh?

What are you talking about? This has NOTHING to do with Clinton/Obama.

[Metric System]

44. Exactly! So what are you doing bashing McCain when you could be spending your time bashing a fellow

Dem?!?