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Considering McCain voted AGAINST MLK Day, I find that hard to stomach.

martin luther king was a labor activist and one of the first national figures to denounce the war in vietnam. if he were alive he'd be a dennis kucinich supporter.

His basis for this assertion is that Obama hates whitey and King would not be okay with that.

See this is a good example of begging the question.

flavor of the month: if he were alive he'd be a dennis kucinich supporter.

I'd have to agree with this...

If MLK were alive today, he'd be a pretty popular tv evangelist, in the mode of Creflo Dollar. Considering his income, he likely would be a republican, but I doubt he'd pass up the chance to vote for Obama.

... and if dogsh*t was roses... it would still stink.

/I can make crap up too.

tag on vacation?

Nestea Plunge: Because John McCain was a POW!

Perhaps. But only if MLK was also a senile old man.

Don't miss tomorrow's exciting NRO article: If Hitler were alive today, he'd be an Obama supporter.

patrick767: Don't miss tomorrow's exciting NRO article: If Hitler were alive today, he'd be an Obama supporter.

So would Charles Manson.

Are you kidding me?

In a recent Newsweek article, "Finding His Faith," Obama answers questions regarding his attendance at Trinity. He now says he and Michelle really didn't attend Trinity very often at all. "At the beginning, we went fairly frequently . . . probably went two or three times a month. When we had Malia, our first child, we went less frequently, and that probably continued for a couple of years, just because - I don't know if you've had the experience of taking young, squirming children to church, but it's not easy. . . . As they got older, we would go back a little more frequently, probably twice a month."

Unfortunately, Senator Obama gave a vastly different answer to the same question when he was running for his U.S. Senate seat. Here's what he told Cathleen Falsani, in a face-to-face interview for the Chicago Tribune. In March 2004, Obama said this about his church attendance:

FALSANI: Do you still attend Trinity?
OBAMA: Yep. Every week. 11 o'clock service. Ever been there? Good service. I actually wrote a book called Dreams from My Father, it's kind of a meditation on race. There's a whole chapter on the church in that, and my first visits to Trinity.

It was more politically expedient for him to be identified with the Church when he was running for his US Senate seat, duh. As a sidenote, is Church really supposed to be a "meditation on race"? I go to church to worship, not talk identity politics.

Obama even voted against a state version of the Infants Born Alive Protection Act - which would guarantee the right of medical care to babies who have survived attempted abortions.

Obama supporters, is there more background on this that might help explain his "no" vote?

KaponoFor3: Obama supporters, is there more background on this that might help explain his "no" vote?

It was a political shell bill that was intended merely to force a vote for precisely reasons like this. Moreover, it is unnecessary since a baby born alive is fully vested with a life interest already protected by the 14th amendment along with about a 1000 laws that regulate emergency medical care. Any one who killed a born alive baby would have committed first degree murder under Illinois law.

BritneysSpeculum: Moreover, it is unnecessary since a baby born alive is fully vested with a life interest already protected by the 14th amendment along with about a 1000 laws that regulate emergency medical care.

Was emergency medical care guaranteed to such children by statute in Illinois at the time?

It definitely sounds like it was a bill intended to look good on the politician's resumes, at least at first glance and if I can assume what you say is true. Then why vote against it? What is the good Obama gets for doing so? He has to know that it will be giving his challengers tons of ammunition against him.

KaponoFor3: Then why vote against it?

To quell his insatiable bloodlust.

Code_Archeologist: WILL YOU IGNORANT NEOCONS PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP?!

That was the first thing I thought of when I read the headline.

I love that show. +1

Martin Luther King Jr. would just vote for Obama because he's black.

Nestea Plunge: We're touched by your concern, slappy.

From an objective/strategy point of view, it's just a stupid decision that puts him in a tough place. McCain has had plenty of them as well.

You'd think these politicians might be a little smarter than they are.

It's funny, because McCain voted against recognizing Martin Luther King Day...

If Dr. King were alive today, he'd be eating a McRib Sandwich somewhere in Canada.

My last will and testament is going to include stipulations that prevent NRO from putting words in my posthumous mouth.

FTFA: School Choice
If Barack Obama were a candidate committed to genuine change for disadvantaged Americans, offering them a choice of better schools for their children would be a no-brainer issue for him.

Do neo-cons really think that school choice would help the disadvantaged? All it would do is pull money from the public school system and put it into a private school system that will cater to the richest and best connected students with an occasional bone thrown to a darkie so they can claim they are helping the less fortunate. Seriously people. No right minded person that can not currently afford private school should support school vouchers.

If I did not have a kid, I would really like to give all three branches of the government over to the Republicans and let them have privatization of schools, no abortions, open and free markets with no imposed labor standards and no regulations, a pay for yourself healthcare system and safety and security at the expense of liberty national security. Then we could finally purge the system of the objectivist and start working together to make this country great again.

I wonder if the NRO realizes it reads like a parody of itself.

Holy fark, this went green? This is going to be good. Popcorn, anyone?

From TFA:

I've been to King's church in Atlanta. I never got to see King preach in person

But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I realize the right is trying to force race back into the picture at every opportunity, but this has got to be the most half-witted attempt yet.

If Obama were white but held the same policy positions, especially in regards to the economy, Dr. King would still be an Obama supporter. Race has zero to do with it.

If MLK were alive today, he'd be scraping at the lid of his coffin screaming GET ME OUT OF HERE.

Obama is the summit in MLK's I Have Been to the Mountain Top speech. A person of color on the ticket of a major political party only 40 years after a time when he would not have been able to drink from the same water fountain as a white man. I might have disagreed with Buckley on many economic issues, but I think that even he would agree that his legacy is being ruined by the folks at NRO.

Ah, the Dead Historical Figures Derby has begun.

Well, I have it on good authority that Mahatma Gandhi would not only vote against McCain, but also call him a cock-knocker on national TV and then give him a noogie.

KaponoFor3: Was emergency medical care guaranteed to such children by statute in Illinois at the time?

I believe that federal law mandates that all hospitals must provide life sustaining treatment to every person who comes there. There is no need to specify newly aborted babies would also fit since a born alive baby is by definition a person.

I guess this means that Teddy Roosevelt would have voted for Obama because he believed in a universal healthcare system?

Judge NRO by the content of their caricature.

Kyle-Anne Shiver

So is it a boy or a girl?

Next up: It's Pat!

Is that the guy named after all those streets?

/getting an early jump on Caturday

Dammit, Republicans can afford all the really good drugs....

I think the most asinine thing ever is to speculate on who a dead person would have voted for if he were alive today. How low could you possibly get? You don't know the person, at least not intimately, unless you were closely related to him. How farking dare you speak in his name and presume to say what he would do? It's such a prick thing. Not to mention, it doesn't even farking matter. He's dead, who honestly cares how he would've voted? Yes he was a great man, but think for your god damn self.

flavor of the month: one of the first national figures to denounce the war in vietnam.

Why do you think he's dead? COINTELPRO got him and we blamed a 'lone gunman'. Yay America!

If MLK were alive today, no one would listen to him because his message would be ruined due to the fact he would fark anything that moved.

National Review Editor in Chief

In other news, Lincoln, Jesus, and Superman said to be voting for Obama.

OK, boys and girls. It's time to play:

HOW STUPID DOES THE GOP THINK YOU ARE?

It's always funny to see what the buttery socialists over at the National Socialist Review Online come up with when they're not greasing each other with Oil of Olay.

patrick767: Don't miss tomorrow's exciting NRO article: If Hitler were alive today, he'd be an Obama supporter.

Dude, Obama IS Hitler! Isn't it obvious?!

By the way, has the 'Obama = Hitler' talking point been done yet?

Shabash: tag on vacation?

Since its from NRO, I believe the UNLIKELY tag just exploded and collapsed into itself. Then OBVIOUS ran in.

He'd support Obama long before Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton.

Didn't McCain vote against having a MLK holiday?

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Considering McCain voted AGAINST MLK Day, I find that hard to stomach.

FTW, sometimes articles are so stupid, they lose on the Weeners.