McCain admits error on King holiday ("I was wrong. I was wrong.")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

John McCain honored the sacrifice and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and said today that he was wrong to oppose a federal holiday for King. "I was wrong. I was wrong," he said in front of the Lorraine Motel after an impromptu tour of where King was assassinated 40 years ago. "We can all be a little late sometimes in doing the right thing, and Dr. King understood this about his fellow Americans."

Some in the crowd heckled him, but others shouted, "We forgive you. We forgive you."

The presumptive Republican nominee also told the crowd, gathered in the rain, about when he learned of King's assassination, from the guards at the "Hanoi Hilton," where he was being held as a prisoner of war after being shot down over North Vietnam.

"I remember first learning what had happened here on the fourth of April 1968, feeling just as everyone else did back home, only perhaps even more uncertain and alarmed for my country in the darkness that was then enclosed around me and my fellow captives," he said. "In our circumstances at the time, good news from America was hard to come by. But the bad news was a different matter, and each new report of violence, rioting, and other tribulations in America was delivered without delay. The enemy had correctly calculated that the news from Memphis would deeply wound morale, and leave us worried and afraid for our country. Doubtless it boosted our captors' morale, confirming their belief that America was a lost cause, and that the future belonged to them.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/mccain_admits_e.html

[KamaAina]

1. Put that on a continuous tape loop

while this and everything else in his record is flashed onscreen.

"I was wrongI was wrongI was wrongI was wrongI was wrong..."

edit: spacing

[spanone]

2. he's right that he's wrong

[Johnny Harpo]

3. At Least He Admitted He Was Wrong....

which is what Hillary won't say about her vote on Iraq.

[maseman]

4. I was wrong I was wrong

but but but but...just remember I was tortured at the Hanoi Hilton so cut me some slack.

[Zorra]

5. Every RWer cackled with glee when Dr. King was assassinated, and I bet McCain

was no exception.

[lonestarnot]

6. kick

[jpak]

7. "I got caught, I got caught" is more like it

His natural constituency supported his stand on this issue and applauded him for it.

[BlooInBloo]

8. (shrug) And has he done anything since that would lead us to think he's changed his ways?