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Obama calls for voter protections in fiery John Lewis eulogy
aol ^ | Jul 30th 2020 | DYLAN STABLEFORD

Posted on 07/30/2020 10:55:09 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton gave speeches at the funeral for John Lewis, Democratic congressman who died earlier this month.

Obama delivered the eulogy, and used it to level criticism at the Trump administration’s attacks on peaceful protesters and voting rights amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“We can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators,” Obama said. “There are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting, by closing polling locations and targeting minorities with restrictive ID laws, attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the postal service in an election that’s going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don’t get sick.”

Obama did not mention Trump by name.

Earlier in the day, Trump launched his latest attack on states’ vote-by-mail programs, baselessly claiming that they are rife with fraud.

Lewis was beaten by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., where state troopers beat and used tear gas against peaceful marchers advocating against racial discrimination.

"Black Americans who were asking for nothing more than to be treated like other Americans, who were not asking for special treatment, just equal treatment, promised to them a century before.

"And someday, when we do finish that long journey towards freedom, when we do form a more perfect union, whether it's years from now or decades or even if it takes another two centuries, John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America."Obama said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demagogue; dylanstableford; obama; propagandaartist; yahoodylan; yahoostableford
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“We can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators,” Obama said.
1 posted on 07/30/2020 10:55:09 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Author is a propaganda machine for the Left. Nothing more, nothing less.


2 posted on 07/30/2020 10:56:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MarvinStinson

That’s failed so far - wait until we start using bullets against them.


3 posted on 07/30/2020 10:57:40 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: MarvinStinson

I still can’t believe that AOL even exist. I have seen several articles from it on here lately and before that I didn’t see one for maybe a decade :-)

Do they still even have email accounts?


4 posted on 07/30/2020 10:58:46 PM PDT by dp0622 (Patriots: Better stand tall when they're calling you out. Don't bend, don't break, don't back down.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Who?


5 posted on 07/30/2020 11:02:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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[Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton]

Three of a kind these days. Here's Barack and Hillary "preaching" about Elijah Cummings:






6 posted on 07/30/2020 11:03:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MarvinStinson
Did Obama read from a teleprompter?
7 posted on 07/30/2020 11:05:16 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Are you the AOL poster? Holy crap, the posts from the passe AOL are about as worse as Mother Jones with lies and filth.


8 posted on 07/30/2020 11:07:32 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: MarvinStinson

You want voter protections...photo ID’s, nothing less.


9 posted on 07/30/2020 11:20:38 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: SaveFerris

Moochie didn’t go to the funeral?


10 posted on 07/30/2020 11:22:04 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Might have been get-a-free-lobster day at Golden Corral.


11 posted on 07/30/2020 11:23:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: dp0622

AOL is good for sharing files with others. Their email is better than most. I have used it since I joined Free Republic in 1998. Their news is the worst around. Yahoo is better and it sucks


12 posted on 07/30/2020 11:24:01 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: MarvinStinson

‘darndest’

said the queer


13 posted on 07/30/2020 11:25:35 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Hussein is pissed he isn’t relevant anymore. On the other hand, he really likes the life of a retired rich guy. So, you libs need to be satisfied by his rant, because that’s all you gonna get.


14 posted on 07/30/2020 11:33:53 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: MarvinStinson

All those words and yet this country elected him twice and hoped for the best and the best he do was mediocre at best , while stoking and inflaming a fire of endemic racism which doesn’t exist.

If it did, I would march but, no one prevents a black person from getting loans for their home or automobile

I know, because i sold cars for two years and no one was denied a loan or given terms based on race.

Black entertainers are paid millions.

Professional athletes are worshipped as modern day gladiators and looked up to.

At all levels in the corporate world they are successful.

And yet, America has such a race problem that even Google suppresses the perils to people of color that, it seems, everyone wants to come and enjoy the American Dream.

Where are the failures of human waste who hold anyone down because of their skin color?


16 posted on 07/30/2020 11:37:27 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: May Bee

At least he went down as the worst president in history of the United States.

A title he will hold until Hillary is elected. God forbid!


17 posted on 07/30/2020 11:39:39 PM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: SaveFerris

ROFL!! More than likely.


18 posted on 07/30/2020 11:40:25 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: MarvinStinson

That was a disgusting lowlife way for those ex-Presidents to act. For Trump not to be invited is disgusting behavior. They cannot put aside partisan crap even for a funeral.

Neither Bush, Obama, and Clinton had enough class to insist.

The hell with all of them.


19 posted on 07/30/2020 11:41:57 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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20 posted on 07/30/2020 11:53:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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