How did McCain not know of Dr. King's history? The "I have a dream" speech was during the 1963 March on Washington. The Selma-to-Montgomery march was in 1965. Martin Luther King was killed in April 1968.
John McCain wasn't living in the US during that period. He was deployed overseas after graduating (Navy) flight training in 1960. By 1966, he was in the Pacific flying missions over Vietnam. He was shot down and captured in 1967 and remained in a North Vietnamese prison until 1973. Prisoners at the "Hanoi Hilton" had no access to the news and didn't receive mail for years, or not at all.
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Factcheck.org: McCain's Misleading Mailer
He faults Romney for "providing" state funding for abortions that Romney didn't seek, and courts ordered.
Jan 15, 2008 | Updated: 10:40 a.m. ET Jan 15, 2008
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Summary
McCain is sending out a postcard mailing in South Carolina that is misleading on more than one point.
It says that "Romney provided taxpayer-funded abortions," a distortion. Romney's Massachusetts health-care plan faced a court order requiring abortions to be covered.
It says Romney "refused to endorse Bush Tax Cut Plan," but fails to note that McCain himself voted against it.
It says, "Hillary tried to spend $1 million for a Woodstock museum" until "John McCain said NO." In fact, McCain wasn't present for the most important votes on the project.
Analysis
A copy of the mailer was provided to us by the Mitt Romney campaign at our request, after news accounts about it surfaced over the weekend.
It shows a smiling John McCain promising to "fight for lower taxes" and to "veto every single pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk." Fair enough. Those pledges sound very similar to promises Romney himself has been making. But the mailer goes on to draw a picture of Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts that is so distorted as to discredit McCain's claim to be the candidate of "straight talk."
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