Posted on 01/19/2017 7:31:47 PM PST by ItsOnlyDaryl
Democratic U.S. Rep. John Lewis has earned both praise and opprobrium for his recent feud with President-elect Donald Trump.
The civil-rights leader has insisted Trump will not be a legitimate president, due primarily to the reported influence of Russian hackers on the 2016 election.
In an interview that sparked fierce backlash from Trump and many of the president-elect’s supporters, Lewis announced he would boycott Friday’s inauguration.
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Plus he lied about it....
Lyin’ Lewis
yeah but he had head wounds 50 years ago. Probably PTSD related.
Obama was the illegitimate President.
He told us he was born a British subject, slyly leaving out that he was not a natural born citizen as a result.
The Kenyanesian Usurpation was brought to you by BOTH parties.
The Constitution says natural born citizen.
That means one who is naturally an American because they couldn’t be anything else, born here of citizen parents.
Everyone in DC wanted that changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution.
The Senate passed a resolution declaring McCain a natural born citizen because he had TWO citizen parents, even though he was born in Panama.
Then Obama runs and wins based on just being born here, even though he told us on his website he was born a British subject as the result of having a foreign national father.
So the standard went from born here of citizen parents to just TWO citizen parents to just being born here in one election cycle without amending the Constitution.
According to this standard the recently deceased King of Thailand was eligible, he was born in Cambridge MA, as well as every anchor baby with no loyalty to the USA.
This was done intentionally because Rubio (no citizen parents), Cruz (foreign birth, one citizen parent), Jindal (no citizen parents), George P Bush (one citizen parent) and Haley (no citizen parents) were all ineligible and the future of the GOP.
The truth of the Kenyanesian Usurpation will never see the light of day because they all cooperated in the violation of the Constitution.
“Democratic U.S. Rep. John Lewis has earned both praise and opprobrium for his recent feud with President-elect Donald Trump.”
Praise from Rubio.
I don’t view Lewis and many of his fellow travelers as American anyway; Trump should be thrilled that he doesn’t have to see the scowling faces of those savages who would just as soon boil him and eat him (literally). It isn’t their political views that leads me to this, but the knowledge that they have no respect for (or even knowledge of) anything about the history, culture, or workings of this country. They’d fill exactly the same role if you dropped them in any country in the world (panhandlers with outstretched palms who refuse to work for their daily bread, or think of anything beyond their immediate and basic impulses).
We probably would be better off having a Democrat senator win in Florida this time.
Now we have to put up with the anchor boy who likes foam parties and thinks he’s qualified for President because he’s never had a job outside of government.
Oh yeah, his other “qualification” is he drinks lots of water and memorizes nuclear policies so he can sound smart at debates.
John Lewis is a partisan, a racist, and a disgrace. His view is anti-American.
Lunck head Lewis’ district underperforms the U.S. economically.
Murder and crime is the bonus prize.
Hey Lewis! you had 8 years of Obama what did that
get you? A bounty of section 8 housing.
He’s using the playbook developed by the Demos after Gore lost, but never got to implement. This time they started early.
I’m thinking Bro. Lewis just likes to sit home and smoke some pot, drink a few malt liquors, and takes his shoes off.
Let him be. He does not add to the decor.
JOHN LEWIS DISGRACES HIMSELF
Calling President-elect Trump “illegitimate,” Lewis has a long record of Communist affiliations and radical agendas.
January 19, 2017 John Perazzo
If a good man turns bad, are we required to pretend, for the rest of his life, that he is still good? Do such a man’s earlier good deeds render him strictly off-limits from any and all subsequent criticism until the end of time? Is he entitled to be revered indefinitely as a hero, an icon, or a saint, even if he has spent the past half-century proving himself to be a vile race-baiter, an ally of America’s enemies, and a liar who repeatedly bears false witness against his fellow man?
We can answer all these questions by examining the track record of Democratic congressman John Lewis, who has vowed to boycott President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on grounds that Trump is not “a legitimate president.” Incidentally, that was the same rationale Lewis used sixteen years ago, when he likewise boycotted the inauguration of George W. Bush.
Yes, we all know about Lewis’s days as a good guy in the early Sixties, when he took part in the Freedom Rides that challenged segregation across the South, and when he was arrested and beaten for his participation in civil-rights actions in places like South Carolina and Alabama.
But in addition to that, are we, by any chance, allowed to also remember that from 1962-64 Lewis was a vice chairman of a Communist Party USA front group known as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee? Trevor Loudon’s extraordinary research has laid bare this fact and many others about Lewis’s past.
How about the fact that in 1964 Lewis praised Norman Thomas—a six-time U.S. presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket—as a man who “has symbolized to millions of Americans the ideals of peace, freedom and equality”? Are we permitted to be unsettled by that?
Is it okay if we find it curious that in 1965 Lewis became the first honoree to receive the annual Eugene Debs Award, named for the founder of the Socialist Party of America?
Are we allowed to raise an eyebrow over the fact that in ‘65 as well, Lewis penned an article for a Communist propaganda magazine in which he lauded Paul Robeson, a Communist Party member who had been a devoted admirer of the late Soviet dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin?
Or must we, as proof of our moral virtue and good manners, dutifully turn a blind eye to all these things?
Is it permissible to be unimpressed by the fact that in the late Sixties, Lewis was listed as a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, an anti-U.S.-military organization that served as a front for the Socialist Workers Party?
Are we allowed to wonder why, in May 1973, Lewis co-sponsored “A Call” for a founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a Communist Party front group that grew out of the movement to free the incarcerated Marxist revolutionary and Black Panther ally Angela Davis?
Are we permitted to think it less-than-wonderful that in 1989 Lewis was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies—a North Carolina-based spinoff of the Institute for Policy Studies—in light of the fact that the IPS was described in 1983 by then-Secretary of State George Shultz as an organization “which has for 20 years consistently supported foreign policy objectives that serve the interests of the Soviet Union”?
Would it be okay for some of us to take offense at Lewis’s assertion in March 1995—four months after the Republican Party had won House and Senate majorities on the strength of its “Contract With America”—that Republicans were akin to Nazis intent upon exploiting and abusing “the children,” “the poor,” “the sick,” “the elderly,” and “the disabled”?
Or must we forever bow our heads and genuflect whenever Lewis’s name is mentioned?
Are we permitted to wonder why Lewis in 2003 contributed an article to the Communist newspaper People’s Weekly World?
Are we allowed to question why Lewis in 2007 was a special guest at the annual conference of the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization whose explicit aim is to “radically transform” the American government and economy?
Are we permitted to find it disgraceful that when the House of Representatives in 2009 voted overwhelmingly to defund the notoriously corrupt, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN—which had elevated voter-registration fraud into a veritable art form—Lewis was one of the relatively few Democrats who voted to continue pouring rivers of taxpayer dollars into that moral cesspool?
Are we allowed to be outraged by the fact that in mid-July 2014, after scores of thousands of (mostly unaccompanied) Central American minors had crossed the southern U.S. border illegally since October of the previous year, Lewis called for open borders and proudly declared that “our doors are open”?
Or must we perpetually build shrines in Lewis’s honor?
Are we permitted to be repulsed by the fact that in October 2008, Lewis likened Republican presidential candidate John McCain and and his running mate, Sarah Palin, to George Wallace, the former the segregationist former governor of Alabama who had “created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans”?
Are we allowed to think badly of Lewis for having lied in 2010 when he said that conservative Tea Party protesters on the steps of Capitol Hill had shouted the “N-word” at him as he walked past them?
Is it permissible to be disgusted by Lewis’s claim—in a speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention in September 2012—that Republicans were eager to bring back the days of Jim Crow segregation and bloody violence against blacks?
And are we allowed to wonder why Gary Dotterman, a prominent Communist Party member in Massachusetts, described Lewis in 2015 as “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend”?
The great scholar and author Thomas Sowell, writing about the grotesque moral decline which the NAACP had undergone over a period of decades, once noted that “in time even monuments can become overgrown by weeds,” and “even a great crusade can degenerate into a hustle.”
Once-respectable individuals can likewise degenerate into malevolent hustlers. If you need proof, just look at John Lewis.
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