Posted on 09/01/2015 6:59:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
He was educated in an era when education was a plus, not a minus to ones intelligence.
Yow. Too long for a bumper sticker, but spot on!
Calling Obama the greatest President ever and Ben Carson ignorant (and invoking lynching in a couple sentences)? Is this guy always stoned? He sure acts (and looks) like it.
No, thanks.
Rep. Hank Johnson: It’s Not Just About Bibi Dissing Our Black President
02/11/2015
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/rep-hank-johnson-its-not-_b_6662884.html
I had the opportunity to interact at some length with Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson not so long ago. I’m going to hazard a guess that at some point in his life, Rep. Hank Johnson had the opportunity to study Cicero.
When the 1% were plotting to overthrow the Roman republic, the great democratic orator Cicero gave a series of speeches in the Roman Senate, exposing the conspiracy. These speeches came to be known as the “Catilinarians” or the “Catiline Orations,” after the principal target of the speeches, Lucius Sergius Catilina. For two thousand years, these speeches have been pored over by students of Latin and rhetoric as a canonical example of Roman oratory.
One of Cicero’s rhetorical techniques that made a big impression on my high school Latin class was “praeteritio,” “I will pass over.” The orator mentions “in passing” some really damning thing done by the accused. “Quod ego praetermitto,” “which [crime] I will pass over.” By such “passing over” of the crime, the speaker calls attention to the crime.
Here’s Rep. Hank Johnson, talking about the opposition of members of the Congressional Black Caucus to the planned speech of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Congress:
“It’s not just about disrespect for the president, it’s disrespect for the American people and our system of government for a foreign leader to insert himself into a issue that our policymakers are grappling with,” said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.). “It’s not simply about President Obama being a black man disrespected by a foreign leader. It’s deeper than that.”
Do you catch that? It’s not just about Netanyahu disrespecting the President of the United States. It’s not simply about Netanyahu disrespecting a black man. It’s about Netanyahu disrespecting the American people and our system of government.
The audience for Netanyahu’s proposed speech to Congress on March 3 is shaping up to be largely Republican - and almost completely white, Politico says.
According to The Hill and Politico, the following eleven CBC Members have already said that they will not attend Netanyahu’s March 3 speech if it is not cancelled:
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (NC) - head of the Congressional Black Caucus;
Rep. James Clyburn (SC) - #3 Democrat in the House;
Rep. John Lewis (GA) - yes, that John Lewis;
Rep. Keith Ellison (MN), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus;
Rep. Hank Johnson (GA);
Rep. Barbara Lee (CA);
Rep. Donna Edwards (MD);
Rep. Gregory Meeks (NY);
Rep. Charles Rangel (NY);
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX);
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
By my count, more than two-thirds of the House Democrats who have announced so far that they will not attend the speech if it is not cancelled are Members of the CBC.
To the people who could still cancel Netanyahu’s speech, I want to say: really? Is this really how you want to fight with us? Is this really the terrain you want to fight us on? There is still time for you to listen to Rabbi Rick Jacobs, head of the largest denomination of Jews in the United States, Abe Foxman of the ADL, Isaac Herzog, head of the Israeli Labor Party, 25,000 people at MoveOn, and 1000 phone calls to the House in support of the Ellison-Cohen-Waters letter, urging that the speech be cancelled.
To this very day “capsize” is still the guaranteed laugh line at this household. Amazing that dunce would say anything about the great Dr. Carson.
Type it with a smaller font ;)
But it really is true. School today reduces, not enhances ones knowledge. How many parents today have kids that learn more at home than in school on school subjects?
Most of them. And the ones that don’t are likely Hank Johnson clones.
Follow Rep. Hank Johnson on Twitter:
www.twitter.com/@RepHankJohnson
I see you one Hank Johnson and raise you a Sheila Jackson Lee.
Hank Johnson Reads ICantBreathe Poem on House Floor
12/04/2014
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Men and boys killed by police.
I can’t breathe.
Impunity for the killers - no justice, no peace.
I can’t breathe.
Militarized police met peaceful protesters on their knees.
I can’t breathe.
Weapons of war - a show of force on our streets.
I can’t breathe.
Disenfranchised youth driven to violence as speech.
I can’t breathe.
Cynical media think this makes great TV.
I can’t breathe.
This cowardly Congress afraid of losing our seats.
I can’t breathe.
Half-hearted reform when there’s more that we need.
I can’t breathe.
Just thinking about the despair that this breeds.
I can’t breathe.
Black lives matter. Hear my pleas.
I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.
I yield.
Hank Johnson’s kids aren’t apt to learn much of anything at home.
There are no intelligence requirements for elected office.
There are no intelligence requirements for elected office.
That is abundantly clear!
The mere fact that we continue to allow this type of garbage to hold political power/influence in this country IS...dumb.
...How does moron Hank Johnson dress himself in the morning?...
His wife picks his clothes, dresses him, picks his clip on tie, and ties his shoes. Just like Michelle does
Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) said that the National Rifle Association (NRA) opposed President Barack Obama’s gun control plans because
“First of all, he is a black. And as a black person being the president of the United States, that is something they still cannot get over.”
“They couldn’t get over the first election, and they’re still shell-shocked at the second election,” he said. “That’s a pun, shell-shocked.”
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Matt Cover, CNS News, January 16, 2013
http://www.amren.com/news/2013/01/rep-hank-johnson-on-nra-they-still-cannot-get-over-that-obama-is-black/
I’m sure Al Gore knew a long time ago.
By the way,
when it capsizes,
what’s going to happen to all the penguins on Guam?
They’ll disco dance with happy feet...
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