Posted on 10/18/2007 9:13:32 AM PDT by freespirited
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday the Senate should apologize for slavery and segregation, calling them “dark chapters in our history.”
McCain said he would support a planned resolution by fellow Republican Sen. Sam Brownback, who is also seeking the presidency, to apologize for racist laws, some of which ended more than a century ago.
“They were federal policies,” Brownback told the Boston Globe on Monday. “They were wrong. The only way for us to move forward . . . is at the end of the day acknowledging those, taking ownership for it, and asking for forgiveness.”
McCain agreed with Brownback’s approach.
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Spokesmen for other presidential candidates, including Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, the only top-tier black candidate, declined to comment on the planned Brownback apology. Also silent were Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican candidates Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson.
Nothing that “various states have adopted similar resolutions,” McCain emphasized that words alone cannot make amends for America's past policies of racism. He said the U.S. should “continue our efforts to make sure that all Americans have equal opportunity to take part in this great, great free-enterprise system of ours.”
The Arizona Republican pledged to “address the issues of poverty and lack of education in parts of America, including parts of South Carolina, parts of my state, that some of our Hispanic students are not getting the same quality of education we want them to.”
McCain made the remarks during a two-day swing through South Carolina, a state that effectively ended his presidential campaign in 2000 when Republicans voted instead for George W. Bush. McCain used the visit to attack Clinton for advocating taxpayer funding of a museum on the Woodstock rock concert. McCain also slammed Giuliani for fighting against the presidential line-item veto, which McCain called an essential tool for controlling federal spending.
Woohoo! Jimmy Carter Sharpton McCain!
Will he be championing reparations, soon?
Carter gave us the War on Poverty. Reagan ... the War on Drugs. Bush ... the War on Poverty. McCain is launching the War on U.S. Taxpayers.
Nope. The War on Poverty was one of LBJ's signature programs.
The confusion is understandable, though. Because it works like something you would expect Carter to have come up with...
“McCain: Senate should apologize for slavery “
Not nearly as much as they should apologize for YOU!
What a freak.
How long until the “hold your nose and vote for McCain” types get here?
Should I ask for an apology in advance?
You’re right. My goof. But you got the idea, LOL.
I’ve been waiting for reparations to somehow come up, maybe when he speaks at the NAACP ..
“I’ve been waiting for reparations to somehow come up, maybe when he speaks at the NAACP ..”
I’m waiting for the Islam pandering as he stands along side political guru, Muslim convert, open border architect, Grover Norquist.
We have to save something for post-convention. ;-)
We’re so sorry
for the slavery
But we haven’t done a bloody thing all day
We’re so sorry
for the slavery
But the kettle’s on the boil and we’re so easily called away
Yeah, or at La Raza. Remember the California initiative to pay reparations for the 1940s repatriations? Perhaps he can stir up a bit more animosity and racial tension among the electorate--like he hasn't done enough damage, already.
He doesn't seem to realize that the failing education system is caused by the very people he is pandering to. If not for the invasion, children of all U.S. citizens would be getting the education they deserve.
It will come. I have an image of heads exploding on FR.
He doesn’t seem to realize that the failing education system is caused by the very people he is pandering to.
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Frankly, I don’t think he cares.
Good point. A further dumbing down of the peasants, while the elitists enroll their children in private schools, only helps politicians like McCain. I can't figure any other way this dufus has stayed in office this long.
Check this out: The McCain Plan on Global Climate Change
Is he stupid or simply senile?
It’s getting really hard to tell anymore.
John seems almost apologetic that we have the western states, and haven’t forked them over to La Raza on demand. I can’t imagine what he’s going to tell La Raza, that he couldn’t tell the nation as a whole. Why he has to go there is beyond me. Considering La Raza’s agenda, this could insult more people of Mexican ancestry than it will comfort.
If he thinks legalizing between 20 and 35 million illegal immigrants, and the resulting chain immigration it will spark, is favored by most U.S. Citizens of Mexican ancestry, he’s quite foolish.
This would financially impact most Mexican heritage U.S. Citizens negatively.
I hope he can take it at his advanced age----but he's in for a shock.
Anti-illegal is a consensus issue that unites all segments of the political spectrum
Ask Hillary about the fallout from liberal NY dems when she endorsed licensing illegals.
What a clown that McCain the Insane! hahahahahahahah.
And McQueeg should apologize for Amnesty.
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