Comments on: John McCain’s Troubling, Deceitful History With Martin Luther King’s Birthday http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/04/04/john-mccains-troubling-deceitful-history-with-martin-luther-kings-birthday/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Alan K. Henderson http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/04/04/john-mccains-troubling-deceitful-history-with-martin-luther-kings-birthday/#comment-89895 Alan K. Henderson Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:18:17 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/04/04/john-mccains-troubling-deceitful-history-with-martin-luther-kings-birthday/#comment-89895 I don't favor instituting a Federal holiday honoring a single person, unless that person is the founder of Western civilization (Jesus) or that accidental harbinger that brought Western Europe's best political system to North America and its worst to Central and South America (Columbus). I <i>do</i> favor a Civil Rights Day that would honor <i>all</i> civil rights leaders and not just one guy - the way we grouped all presidents into one holiday. Scheduling it in mid-January gives Dr. King a little extra prominence, reminding people who it was that inspired this holiday. I don’t favor instituting a Federal holiday honoring a single person, unless that person is the founder of Western civilization (Jesus) or that accidental harbinger that brought Western Europe’s best political system to North America and its worst to Central and South America (Columbus).

I do favor a Civil Rights Day that would honor all civil rights leaders and not just one guy – the way we grouped all presidents into one holiday. Scheduling it in mid-January gives Dr. King a little extra prominence, reminding people who it was that inspired this holiday.

]]> By: Joyful Alternative http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/04/04/john-mccains-troubling-deceitful-history-with-martin-luther-kings-birthday/#comment-89850 Joyful Alternative Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:22:38 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/04/04/john-mccains-troubling-deceitful-history-with-martin-luther-kings-birthday/#comment-89850 Or maybe he's saying there weren't any blacks in the military? It's hard to make straight talk out of anything that man says. Or maybe he’s saying there weren’t any blacks in the military?

It’s hard to make straight talk out of anything that man says.

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