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Atlanta Mayor Reed to Trump: “John Lewis an American hero. Full stop.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 1/14/17 | Leon Stafford

Posted on 01/14/2017 12:53:55 PM PST by madprof98

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed pushed back Saturday on President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment of civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis’ district.

In a series of tweets, Reed said: “John Lewis is an American hero & a national treasure. Period. Full stop.

“That PEOTUS Trump would attack Congressman Lewis on MLK Day weekend for “all talk…no action” when he bled to actually “Make America Great” is why far less than half the country supports him at the dawn of his presidency.”

Trump said Lewis’s district was “in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested)” in an early Saturday tweet.

Leaders throughout the metro area voiced their opinions Saturday on the controversy, including Georgia Republicans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 115th; atlanta; cbc; civilrights; democrats; donaldtrump; dopeydems; ga; johnlewis; kasimreed; lewis; liberals; reed; trump
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To: madprof98
Stolen from Instapundit

FLASHBACK: JOHN LEWIS (D-GA) COMPARES JOHN McCAIN AND SARAH PALIN TO GEORGE WALLACE (D-AL).

Is there any Republican president or presidential candidate Lewis hasn’t cried wolf over?

Related: “Lewis is invariably described as a ‘civil rights icon,’ but the man is an utter fraud. He has been coasting on his 50-year-old reputation for decades,” John Hinderaker writes today at Power Line. “There is no reason to treat John Lewis with kid gloves, and Donald Trump doesn’t do so. This morning he used his favorite medium to respond to Lewis’s slanders…Trump could have been a lot harsher,” he adds, after linking to Trump’s tweets.

61 posted on 01/14/2017 1:48:34 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: madprof98

So, Benedict Arnold was a full American hero at one time.

What’s your point, Mayor?


62 posted on 01/14/2017 1:49:56 PM PST by exit82 (Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
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To: madprof98

A true American Hero would not have made disparaging remarks about the incoming president.


63 posted on 01/14/2017 1:50:09 PM PST by LydiaLong
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To: madprof98

https://soundcloud.com/ewerickson/john-lewis-shirley-franklin-and-andrew-young-stir-up-racial-fear-for-john-eaves


64 posted on 01/14/2017 1:53:45 PM PST by Original Lurker
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To: madprof98

Just a little perspective about Lewis, Jackson and others. While they were marching and kind of putting their lives on the line, I was serving in Viet Nam with guys of the same color who were putting and actually did put their lives on the line. And some of them didn’t come back to walk in a march.


65 posted on 01/14/2017 1:56:10 PM PST by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: madprof98

Once again, Trump speaks the truth and the left can’t handle it.


66 posted on 01/14/2017 1:59:19 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: madprof98

Post his accomplishments. Why is he special?


67 posted on 01/14/2017 2:01:12 PM PST by mulligan
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To: gigster

That’s really funny.


68 posted on 01/14/2017 2:02:07 PM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: madprof98

Atlanta = Chicago South


69 posted on 01/14/2017 2:02:17 PM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: madprof98

KASIM???


70 posted on 01/14/2017 2:03:03 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

An American “hero”? Did he serve in the military during VN? If not, how did he avoid? I’d say he is a typical corrupt pol and racist. “Full stop”.


71 posted on 01/14/2017 2:08:30 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Lisbon1940

It’s a violent crime against a person, so I included it. Other crimes, burglary, arson, etc are excluded.


72 posted on 01/14/2017 2:08:40 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: exit82
Now that's a comeback!
73 posted on 01/14/2017 2:10:16 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: madprof98

Is this the mayor who fired a fire marshall for being a Christian? That mayor?


74 posted on 01/14/2017 2:14:42 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: madprof98

No. John Lewis is a liar. He’s a hack. He’s a functioning retard.


75 posted on 01/14/2017 2:15:46 PM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: LeoWindhorse

...and he looks like an angry turtle outside of his shell.


76 posted on 01/14/2017 2:37:07 PM PST by katski
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To: fieldmarshaldj

The gerrymandering is a result of an unholy alliance between mostly white Republicans and black Democrats. Each group gets what it wants: safe districts in perpetuity.


77 posted on 01/14/2017 2:44:09 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

But the real “next Obama” is Ben Carson, that is if it’s skin color that is the deciding factor. Go Ben!!!


78 posted on 01/14/2017 2:48:37 PM PST by mistfree (It's a very uncreative man who can't think of more than one way to spell a word.)
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To: Lazamataz

Well put; that’s really where we are now.

As this country becomes less “American” in general, the Asian and Hispanic replacements couldn’t care less what happened 50 years ago (when people believed in racial harmony). The decades since have shown it was a pipe-dream, and that assimilation for far too many blacks is simply impossible; once they were no longer expected to “act civilized”, many simply stopped trying and it all fell apart: families, education/job opportunities, morality - all gone.

In fact, it is hard to convince today’s young Americans (black or white) that those idealists from fifty years ago ever accomplished anything at all. Do you see any evidence that MLK ever even lived?


79 posted on 01/14/2017 2:50:47 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: madprof98

I guess “hero” is in the mind of the beholder. In my mind, Lewis is no hero, he’s a race obsessed loon.


80 posted on 01/14/2017 2:52:48 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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