Comments on: Conyers slams McCain for 1983 vote against MLK Day.

By: Mad Cox

Mad Cox — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:36:35 +0000

“…. 2 weeks str8 about Rev. Write, but NOT one reporter had the BALLS”

By: Mad Cox

Mad Cox — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:34:48 +0000

I watched for ANY of the News Networks to press him on his vote …….& NOTHING. They could broadcast 2 weeks str8 about Rev. Write, but one reporter had the BALLS to ask McCan’t why he voted the way he did not only in 1983(P.E.’s “…By the Time I Get to Arizona” was for McCain & wasn’t made in ‘83), but until the 1990’s on getting the MLK day honored. I see people on here blasting Obama, but not anyone asking why the press let McCain get a free walk on this. He voted against it, not his Pastor(who lets be honest, was vilified the way MLK was in his day. FOX would lead of the News of his death like it was a great day of relief for the U.S.) Life wasn’t like the Huxtable’s when I lived though the 80’s & to think that this guy who thought he was standing up for something then & being a real American; I want to know why he thought that way then & why the press acts so scared to piss off the dude. THAT’S WHY YOU HAVE PEOPLE HECKLING ……BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WILL ASK WHAT THE PRESS WON’T

By: Zooey

Zooey — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:08:29 +0000

Zee Says:
April 5th, 2008 at 9:51 am

Zooey, I assume this blog of your has allllll the ways Hillary “lies constantly?”

Yeah, we do. Stop by.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:52:55 +0000

Maverick Watch Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
i started a new blog dedicated to keeping track of mccain’s doublespeak:

http://maverickwatch.wordpress.com/

some of it is directly from this site, but i wanted to just put everything in one place.

lemme know what you guys think of it.

I like it……good work.

By: Zee

Zee — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:51:41 +0000

Obama, Clinton and Oprah all visited Katrina and all helped in various ways. OK? Can we move on? Zooey, I assume this blog of your has allllll the ways Hillary “lies constantly?” Uh-huh. As if the MSM wouldn’t be camped out in a 24/7 frenzy if they had anything more than her conflated memory of a trip to a war zone.

And if McCain is to be pilloried for not supporting MLK Day in the past, I wonder how many progressives know that Kucinich got his start by race-baiting and telling his white voters that his opponent (horrors!) “supports a national holiday for MLK.”

By: turnerj41

turnerj41 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:35:17 +0000

Jackie Says:

“One would wonder with all this so called Black Pride Mr. and Mrs. Obama have where were they during the Katrina Storm as Blacks begged for help and then the Jenna Six.”

Barrack Obama already embodies what it is too be black. Whether or not he is privileged and understands the lack of opportunity or direction offered to black youth first hand, is barely the question. The fact that he knows that race and racism is an issue that should be dealt is a common trait with Hillary, but that is a far back burner issue for both of them anyway (they will be up to their neck in deficit spending to continue the American Nightmare. Point blank Obama would be a fool to play the race card, he would turn off the hundred million (or more) closet racists in this country. And in turn he would reveal that his understanding of the race issue is shortsighted and wild. If he piped off tomorrow about how he is going to revamp affirmative action and public housing, fox news would probably run a story on the possibility of reparations.

John Mccain is a bigot, this is a strong piece to destroy his credibility, more evidence to me that he will self-destruct by November 5. Hope many more Republicans lose then too.

By: JosephW

JosephW — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:56:24 +0000

Well, Shayne, what’s the problem? There’ve been plenty of other threads which have turned into “Hillary bashing” despite the thread’s having NOTHING to do with Hillary.
I’d say this is just “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”. (I don’t say it’s right, but then again, you decided to throw a slam against Hillary in your criticism of the slam against Obama. So much for taking the high road, Shayne.)

By: Alecto

Alecto — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:26:50 +0000

McFlipflop wa against it before he was for it.

By: Shayne

Shayne — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:01:44 +0000

Jackie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

Interesting that “progressives” you a thread on McCain’s fabrications to slam Obama. I guess that’s why Hillary’s supporters seem so much like Republicans.

By: wijg

wijg — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:25:58 +0000

Via the CarpetBagger:

“I voted in my … first year in Congress against it and then I began to learn and I studied and people talked to me. And I not only supported it but I fought very hard in my home state of Arizona for recognition against a governor who was of my own party,” McCain said during a media availability aboard his plane Monday.

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.

But for a presidential candidate running almost exclusively on his background and personal history, this is one part of McCain’s past that he would just as soon we forget. We won’t.

By: AngryOne

AngryOne — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:48:39 +0000

Unfortunately, with each new stop on his “Service to America” biographical tour, John McCain only raises disturbing new questions about his past.

For the details, see:
“John McCain’s Bio Waste.”

By: had enough

had enough — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:26:53 +0000

McCain is old news and no one cares as he is toast. But where is the impeachment Conyers?

By: Maverick Watch

Maverick Watch — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:24:41 +0000

i started a new blog dedicated to keeping track of mccain’s doublespeak:

http://maverickwatch.wordpress.com/

some of it is directly from this site, but i wanted to just put everything in one place.

lemme know what you guys think of it.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:01:06 +0000

woodguy Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
20 years too late.

Not for the neocons. As long as you finally agree with them its never too late.

By: woodguy

woodguy — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:57:36 +0000

20 years too late.

By: Merlin

Merlin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:57:02 +0000

Jackie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

Feel better now??

By: Merlin

Merlin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:55:58 +0000

Guido the Loving OBGYN Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I’m guessing about 6 black people will vote for McCain. And all of them are in the Bush “administration” and just as crooked as Bush.

You gotta look on the positive side here! McBush has the KKK vote locked up.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:54:11 +0000

Jackie Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

I guess you don’t mind that Hillary Clinton lies constantly and blatantly?

Where was Hillary during Katrina?

By: woodguy

woodguy — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:53:32 +0000

test

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:52:16 +0000

It’s like the way they try to magically turn homosexuality into what people are talking about when you hear that 80% of Americans think we are going in the wrong direction……instead of facing the real reasons people feel that way…..deflection….

mccain is good at it as long as he has control of the situation and his script handy…..most republicans will think what he has said today is a sign of him changing to meet the changes of the world when in reality it is just a lie…..