Posted on 01/15/2017 5:58:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2010, days after returning from Selma, Ala., Mike Pence went on a GOP website and gushed about “my friend” John Lewis.
Then a congressman from Indiana's 6th District, Pence said he was “honored” to walk beside a man personally recruited by Martin Luther King Jr. He talked about how an officer had bashed a younger Lewis in the head during the fight for voting rights. Lewis, he said, was “an integral part of the American story in our nation's unrelenting march toward a more perfect union.”
Now Vice President-elect Pence is one of many leaders picking sides between Lewis and President-elect Donald Trump. Lewis recently called Trump an illegitimate president and Trump responded that the civil rights icon is “all talk.”
In the past year, Trump has gotten into public disputes with a beauty queen and the Muslim parents of a dead soldier. But on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Trump went back and forth with a man whom John McCain once called “one of the most respected men in America.”
It's a widely held opinion. For a lifetime of civil rights work, Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Last year, the Navy announced it would name a ship after him, making Lewis one of just a few " to get that honor.
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My respect for him when from some to none the moment he willfully maligned the thousands of patriotic Americans who were protesting the passage of Obamacare at the Capital.
The real march, is a march that is in lock step with the propaganda narrative of his masters.
In WaPo world this guy is respected, beside the fact DJ didn’t say anything disrespectful he told him to worry about fixing his community instead of going around attacking him on being “illegitimate” the guy doesnt get a pass because he’s a black bigmouth.
Lewis is disgusting Ameritrash. His days of reflected glory are no more.
He failed to realize his irrelevancy and stupidly attacked the President elect
Respected or not, if someone were to call my election illegitimate, all bets are off.
Respected by race hustlers and soft and spineless as diarrhea whites
It’s time courageous people tell the truth about all that 1960s bullshit
Lewis is an uncle Tom.
WHO ??? never heard of him til a few days ago. did research on him...he sounds like a race baiting opportunist and he back-stabbed Sessions
A well respected senator that held his people in poverty while the rats gave him a good living to do just that
Yeah, is the problem with some old black man in the South, or, is the problem with a political propaganda narrative that the deep state and the media obligates the old man to serve?
YouTube video of Major Owens on House floor via Rush Limbaugh TV show.
John Lewis gets beaten 50 years ago by a bunch of Democrats then becomes a Democrat.
Hmmmmmm ....
Seriously? People respect an elected official who publicly declares the elected President is not legit? He is a jerk. Period!
He lied and said tea party spit on him.
“Bloated toad”
Good description, but way too kind.
I don’t care if his name is John Lewis, George Washington, or Napoleon Bonaparte, and I don’t care if he marched with Martin Luther King, George Patton, or Julius Caesar, if he’s an asshole he’s still an asshole.
Bull shit!Respected by whom? His fellow travelers? I have no respect for the son of a whore. Now, Donald Trump I do respect.
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