McCain: Martin Luther Who?
David Knowles
Contributor
Posted:
04/4/08
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."
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."