The NY Daily News has a funny piece in which they interview John McCain, a Democrat from Brooklyn. As a Democrat (and as someone who could pass as Obama’s twin brother), he’s voting for Obama.
What made my jaw drop, though, is this bit:
McCain said he first became aware of the Arizona senator when he voted against making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday.
“I was appalled that someone who shares my name would do something like that,” he said. “He’s not doing what I would do with the name.”
I’ve seen that sort of piece before. You can find several people with just about any name and contrast them with the famous person with that name. Fun, interesting but meaningless in the long run. Must have been a slow news day. 🙂
I didn’t give it much thought, until they brought up McCain’s vote against Martin Luther King Day, which troubles me a bit.
He’s from Arizona, where they don’t even observe daylight savings time. What’d you expect? 😉
Daylight Savings Time: the ultimate liberal conspiracy. 😉
There are people who don’t think MLK was as important as Washington and Lincoln. Imagine that. What did these two ever do? So the idea of not having a day for each of those men and replacing them with one for MLK sort of bothers some people. Does that make them evil? I’m not so sure it does.