How convenient. Hey Johnny, nobody is buying it.

I knew something was up when he referred to the Vietnamese people as "GOOKS". He voted against a day for Dr. Martin Luther King in 1983. "WOW" this is not going to set well with the African American Vote. Thats all well and good that he regrets it. This seem to me to be a political thing. I would say I'm sorry to if I was running for President.

McCain need not apologise for his vote!
National holidays had always been reserved for U.S. Presidents and only 2
were so honored, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln!
While Dr King was a great leader for civil rights many believed at the time
of the Senate vote that some other
memorial would more appropriate than
a national holiday!

dano: Give the man credit. Whether you like John McCain or not, he is still a war hero and served our country honorably.

Dr. Martin Luther King would of appreciated the sacrifices that McCain endured for this country.

dano: Give the man credit. Whether you like John McCain or not, he is still a war hero and served our country honorably.

Dr. Martin Luther King would of appreciated the sacrifices that McCain endured for this country.

Obama will never live up to the "LIKES" of MArtin Luther King!

I wish people would stop referring to Obama as the new MLK>

To compare Obama to Martin Luther King is like comparing Captain Crunch to Superman. Not the same league.

REAGANFAN, yes he does have something to regret, if he voted against MLK day for the reasons you just gave. If it was cleared by the house, the fact that only Presidents have had that honor was an irrelevant point.

I think McCain's vote against the MLK holiday only 25yrs ago should put Wright's comments in some context. Why wouldn't he realize how important MLK was by 1983? And this is the man who may be our next president? He was supposed to be a senator and even most of his colleagues voted for it. Finally admitting you were wrong when everybody already knows you were wrong, doesn't show courage. If people don't understand why there are so resentment in "black America", here is one reason.

McCain should regret voting to allow the CIA to torture prisoners.

If McCain's signed "confession" for his captors was meaningless, what does that say about the value of coerced "intelligence"?

Dr. King would not have been proud.

Couldnt care less the holiday should be rescinded as it is anyway.

oops - Hind site is 20/20. But, as most good politicians that day had the good since to vote for it, he should regret it as you say - and he says he does - but this is an election year, so you never know. As for the African American vote, I don't think he lost it here - you have to have something to lose it. I am glad he apologized. I would like to know his reasoning 25 years ago, but only he and God know it for sure.

Oops
I do agree with you that it is a political thing. At the same time, I do believe that he regrets it because he is now going to be our next President. He doesn't need the black vote because many of Hillary supporters... actually I should anti-Obama voters will vote for him. The problem is many blacks had no idea that he voted against it until now. The people that support Obama are the real Dems (not because they support him) because they know that our next Pres needs to be a Dem, unless you want AT LEAST 4 more years of Bush.

This is the problem with electing a conservative Republican to President. Almost every conservative Republican 'ideal' in a given time in history has been overturned as the 'wrong way' sometime in the future. This happens once the general populous of conservatives realized they made a grave mistake after seeing the public outrage and injustice that follows their insane ideas.

The Iraq War is another example. Twenty years from now 'conservative' Republicans will look back in horror at how their predecessors decided to attack a country that never once attacked the United States. Hopefully some of those responsible for the war will be prosecuted under war crimes once the layer of delusion lifts and the 'conservatives' wake up to their latest mistake.

Please do not vote for the conservative Republican running in this race. The country can do much, much better.

I as a black man who do not generally agree with Mr McCain's views or politics but I must say I admire him for not only showing up but amitted his mistake in voting against the holiday. It is about time that people of differing views and opinions can speak the honest truth, the lack of speaking the truth is the cause of most of todays problem. I will be voting for the democratic nominee but if Mr McCain's party did not have so much disdain for black people I would vote for him, but his party see us as an object without any value.

As someone of a younger generation, I was unaware that Senator McCain voted against a national holiday for Dr. King. I don't understand how he can't speak about his remembrance of that day, of what a seismic and tragic event it was, then turn around and say 15 years later he sill had to "learn" more on the "issue" to understand it? This isn't energy policy. Whether to establish a national holiday is a pretty easy question. I don't buy his excuse and having learned about this, I definitely have a lesser opinion of Senator McCain.

WestCoastMessenger writes:
"To compare Obama to Martin Luther King is like comparing Captain Crunch to Superman. Not the same league."

And yet, you are comparing Dr. King to a cartoon character, which cheapens both Obama AND Martin Luther King.

Doh.

First off let me say that I'm a Dem and I will vote with my party as I see this is the best direction for the country. However, as a soldier I do have a problem with people calling him a war criminal. I don't agree with the Iraq War but as I have signed the oath to support the President I had to go. That is the same with Mr McCain. People don't want to go to war, but if the Pres says we go, and your unit is called, be ready. As a soldier our job is to protect your buddies, and that is what he did.

John McCain votes against the MLK holiday bill. Hillary Clinton votes in favor of a measure to approve sending troops to Iraq. Barack Obama votes against this Iraq measure. Of these three, why is Obama being vilified? (And I don't care about Rev. Wright.)

Sure, his vote against MLK Day was a mistake .... now that he's sucking up for votes! Why didn't he say it was wrong in previous years when he wasn't looking to be President? What a hypocrit.