Posted on 07/27/2020 1:12:43 PM PDT by conservative98
I’ll be glad when it’s over.....just another democrat to me...he won’t be missed!!!
Let’s not forget ‘they’ asked him NOT to attend. As always, he always seems to make the right move. Bury the guy who couldn’t honor the duly elected President of the Worlds most Long Lasting Democratic Independent Gov’t.
Nah! Louis didn’t attend Trump’s innauguration. The family would just use the approach as a chance to mouth off and try to make political hay. Let Mike Pence represent the Trump Admin. I’ll be amazed if they don’t badmouth Pence and accuse him of white aggressions. They never let a “crisis” go to waste.
Our president isn’t a coward afraid of a virus.
LOL...I just knew if I scrolled down far enough, someone would beat me to it!!
Pence is going. Move on.
With the Capitol closed to the public amid the coronavirus pandemic, Mr. Lewis will spend only a few hours lying in state under the Capitol dome after an invitation-only ceremony reserved exclusively for members of the legislative branch on Monday afternoon. About 80 lawmakers are expected to attend, according to a Capitol official.
Afterward, Mr. Lewis’s coffin will be moved outside to the Capitol steps, and members of the public will be able to line up — with masks required and social distancing enforced — to view it from the plaza below on Monday evening and all day Tuesday.
Among those paying their respects will be Vice President Mike Pence and Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, according to their public schedules. President Trump is not scheduled to attend.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/us/politics/john-lewis-memorial.html
Biden and his wife paid their respects to Lewis in private. If Trump wanted to pay his respects it would have been done the same way. But he hated Lewis and Lewis hated him so visiting would have been hypocritical. It's no different than when McCain died. Trump stayed home then too.
Ah yes, let’s do the old Julius Caesar routine:
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
I have no problem with his call.
I would imagine he is getting pretty ripe about now.
People would criticize him if he went and they'll criticize him if he doesn't. No win situation so might as well stay home.
It's disgraceful that they give themselves massive state funerals while regular citizens had to endure loved ones dying alone and then not being able to get any sort of proper closure, all while insisting that we must still live under their boots.
That would be perfect
So you think pence is being sacrificed?
BREAKING: Mask-Wearing Member Of Honor Guard Carrying Rep. John Lewis’ Casket Collapses In Extreme Heat
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Was John Lewis former military? Just curious.
What a stupid response.
Very sad.
So they’re not doing embalming?
I guess Lewis must be embalmed or he wouldn’t be out on his “tour” in 90 deg weather.
Out of 535 members of Congress only 80 will attend? I guess he wasn't really that popular among his "peers". Probably mostly the Congressional Black Caucus.
At the time (April) they were not, even though his death had nothing to due with China virus. Because there were only three men at the burial we all were pall bearers and nobody told us he hadn’t been embalmed. He wasn’t a small man but I’ve been a pall bearer of many people, big and small, and it’s not an issue. Different story if they aren’t embalmed, which I discovered. I don’t know if they’ve resumed embalming, I do know funerals are now allowed up to some limit.
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