McCain: Martin Luther Who?

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John McCain was 47 years old in 1983, the year he voted against making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. Listen to his description of his 47-year-old perspective about one of the most important and high-profile people in the history of the United States.

Does this not strain credulity just a tad? None of his equal-opportunity friends in the military ever told him that King was a good guy? Not exactly the greatest example of leadership ability. And here he was earlier today in Memphis, trying to explain why he just didn't get a man whose "arguments were unanswerable, and they were familiar, the case always resting on the writings of the founders, the teachings of the prophets and the word of the Lord."

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