Posted on 10/11/2008 12:27:24 PM PDT by Chet 99
McCain Offended by Lewis' Comments; Calls On Obama to Condemn
October 11, 2008 3:12 PM
Clearly wounded by the remarks of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., condemning the tone at his rallies, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., issued this statement a few minutes ago.
"Congressman John Lewis' comments represent a character attack against Governor Sarah Palin and me that is shocking and beyond the pale," McCain said. "The notion that legitimate criticism of Senator Obama's record and positions could be compared to Governor George Wallace, his segregationist policies and the violence he provoked is unacceptable and has no place in this campaign."
McCain continued, saying "I am saddened that John Lewis, a man I've always admired, would make such a brazen and baseless attack on my character and the character of the thousands of hardworking Americans who come to our events to cheer for the kind of reform that will put America on the right track.
"I call on Senator Obama to immediately and personally repudiate these outrageous and divisive comments that are so clearly designed to shut down debate 24 days before the election. Our country must return to the important debate about the path forward for America."
I see the Osammie seminar posters/ACORN employees/drug addicts are posting their pro-Osammie comments ad nauseum on that Tapper article. I especially love the comment that “this is why we need President Barack HUSSEIN Osama bin Laden Obammie .. to heal this nation’s wounds..”
Yes .. he’ll heal the nation’s wounds AND walk across the Atlantic ocean to meet with his flock in Europe too! All hail the great (closet towelhead) Osammie!!
Lewis is an Anti-American/anti-capitalism racist POS that couldn’t be elected dog catcher if he had to run on his merits. He owes his elected position to uneducated, equally anti-white idiots the likes of sin-thee-a mckinney.
I see we are back to the “repudiation, denunciation” game all over again.
*sigh*
The word ‘racist’, given its awful meaning by hundreds of years of slavery, murder, and genocide, has been reduced to nothing but a shibboleth intended to stifle speech and obscure the truth.
My empathy for poor downtrodden supposed victims is gone.
My tolerance for participating in a charade based on pretense has passed.
There is no recovery from the damage this election has wrought. No way that I will ever again give concern or consideration to those who would manipulate and control based on meaningless words and empty sympathies.
In 1972, he returned to the Democratic Party fold and was a formidable candidate in that year's presidential primaries. As the most forceful national opponent of "forced busing" for school integration, he galvanized supporters who had never supported him before. But his campaign effectively ended in Laurel, when he was struck down by bullets from a gun fired by Arthur Bremer.
Nevertheless, he won primaries in North Carolina, Michigan, Maryland, Florida, Tennessee and Florida. He no longer could be dismissed as a mere regional candidate.
Wallace returned to the presidential trail, for the last time, in 1976. A near-wraith, his roar of defiance was diminished by both physical limitations and time. National racial tension was, arguably, lessening and Vietnam was no longer a burning issue. His battle cry to the voters of "send them a message!" fell on increasingly unreceptive ears.
Wallace ended up endorsing former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, who went on to defeat Republican Gerald R. Ford for the presidency in 1976.
The people of John Lewis race gained freedom from the blood of 600,000 white (mostly) people, then white (many of them Jews) stood should to should with them to gain the freedoms they have today. Then Lewis, and many others now embrace a system of government (Marxism) which will put all but the elite in slavery. That is very sad.
George Wallace, Lewis’s bogey man, found redemption and was a decent humble man in his later years, perhaps Mr. Lewis should give it a try, he may find a peace he didn’t know existed.
I’ll see your 2 really offended and raise you an “Outraged! I am outraged!”
:-)
“I am saddened that John Lewis, a man I’ve always admired....”
Final straw for me. I will not support, donate money to, volunteer or vote for the McCain/Plain ticket. This one of the softest, most wishy washy, lazy campaigns I have ever seen.
If John McCain will not fight for himself, there is no way he will fight for this country. So what, if he’s President, and we are attacked, will go on tv and say “I am saddened that Osama bin Laden, a man I’ve always admired and respected, a good family man, would resort to such hostile attacks against our nation” ........This jack ass has no idea who his enemies are!
I can’t do it. I can’t vote for him. He will lead this country down the same destructive path Obama will. I say let Obama get in and take the fall for the mess. Then we come back in 2012 with a REAL conservative.
Sarah Palin, for the skse of her political future, should jump off that sinking ship and head back to Alaska and keep making a named for herself. I she stays around, she will only end up going down with th USS John McCain.
I need to come up with a new tagline now! God I’m disgusted!
I have been very disapointed that this jerk, Lewis represents my hometown. I know that I have voted against him every chance I get. We had to deal with Cinthya McCrazy, and now Lewis.
*Now do you all understand why sometimes McCain says what he does?*
Exactly. Last night’s same subject on several threads against McCain by the same keyboard comandos only proves
there are those who would rather see America loose just
so they can keep up their hate for McCain
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I have some recollection that McCain, when asked at Saddleback whom he admired, mentioned John Lewis. You know, we’ve been told by Time mag that Lewis is a “living saint.”
Sometimes McCain gets into his pandering mode, as when he praises Ted Kennedy as “the lion of the Senate.”
As for Lewis, I really have no idea what the man thinks inasmuch as he is completely inarticulate.
it would have been nice if he called them the stalinist punks that they are instead of behaving as if they are american gentlemen. (they are nothing but adolescent, psychopathic, ill-mannered, revolutionary punks who are wearing sheeps clothing.)
IMHO
us idiots down here just keep sending him back. I’ve voted
against him every chance I can get. I am outnumbered.
Get in there and hit him with your purse, Johnnie.
Exactly! Their hatred of McCain trumps what is good for our Country and they seem perfectly willing to hand over the reins of Government to the Socialist Obama. Very seldom see them have anger on the threads against ACORN or Obama which makes me wonder even more.
The very idea that anyone from the Barack Hussein Obama camp could call McCain “racist”, when Barack Hussein Obama himself spent 20 years under the spiritual and political tutelage of Jeremiah Wright and Lewis Farakhan, is just another example of the Marxist left accusing Republicans of the very thing they do!
These are people who have no conscience and no shame. The Democrat party is the most corrupt institution this world has ever seen. And the idea that race riots could follow a Barack Hussein Obama loss simply proves that these people are not fit to live in a civilized society.
Screw Barack Hussein Obama and his goosesteppers!
Any criticism of anything John Lewis does is RACIST!, because John Lewis marched with Martin.
Q.E.D.
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