Posted on 01/16/2017 4:11:28 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
....such partisan rhetorical overkill has come naturally to Lewis throughout his public life.
He characteristically demanded the impeachment of George W. Bush for authorizing the National Security Agency to conduct wiretaps without a warrant. When Barack Obama did the same thing, Lewis didn’t even offer criticism.
Here are some other famous but forgotten slurs from Lewis in recent years:
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.....In the wake of the mass shooting that took place on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida, Lewis led a sit-in comprised of approximately 40 House Democrats on the floor of the House of Representatives
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......In the 2008 presidential election, Lewis suggested Republican John McCain also represented a throwback to George Wallace, who Lewis seems to forget was a member of his party....
......He also played the race card against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012, claiming if elected he would bring back segregation: “I’ve seen this before, I lived this before,” he claimed, after extensively describing his activism in Southern states in the 1950 and 1960s. “We were met by an angry mob that beat us and left us lying in a pool of blood. Brothers and sisters, do you want to go back?...
......In 2010, he falsely accused tea-party demonstrators of using the “N-word” during an anti-Obamacare rally at the Capitol. Lewis joined several other members of the Congressional Black Caucus in claiming that a crowd of thousands of Tea Party protesters on the steps of Capitol Hill had shouted the “N-word” at them when they walked through the crowd.
.....During the 2016 presidential campaign, Lewis revisited a familiar refrain when he compared Donald Trump to George Wallace. “I’ve been around a while and Trump reminds me so much of a lot of the things that George Wallace said and did …
.....During the 2016 primaries, Lewis went beyond partisanship in questioning the civil-rights credentials of Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., who was opposing Hillary Clinton
From the floor of the House on March 21, 1995 – four months after Republicans had won House and Senate majorities on the strength of their “Contract With America” – Lewis paraphrased the anti-Nazi pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous observations.....Lewis said grimly: “Read the Republican contract. They are coming for the children. They are coming for the poor. They are coming for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled.”
He has been elected and re-elected by people who vote for skin color rather than the content of his character.
Term. Limits. Now.
Big Bad John.
...racist blowhard
Liberals wised up after this. Now they send their own to shout the "N-word" at public events which when recorded they can promptly blame on racist Republicans.
With John Lewis it’s follow the money, that’s what he does.
“We need someone as attorney general who is going to look out for all of us, not just some of us.”
Like Eric Holder and “my people”?
Lewis may have been heroic in the civil rights movement, but he has allowed himself to become the house slave of the same Democrat party that beat him up in the civil rights movement.
Sustained by history this gent was simply correct. Then there are others by the name of Booker who’ll even be a stopped clock.
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