McWAR: OUT OF IT THEN, OUT OF IT NOW

McWAR makes a couple of amazing admissions about Martin Luther King. The first one comes from John Amato on why McWar voted against the MLK national holiday:

“I had not been involved in the issue. I had come from being in the military to running for Congress in a state that did not have a very large African American population and it had not been in issue. It just simply had not been.”

Jake Tapper adds this:

I didn't know Dr. King. I was a member of the military. Obviously I admire him as all Americans do.

I don't think McWar means that he didn't vote for the holiday because he didn't personally know King. I think McCain was just outside the mainstream back then, just as he is today.