Posted on 08/04/2020 4:52:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
Traditionally, funerals are supposed to serve at least three purposes: honor the life of the deceased, comfort those who mourn his passing and preach a message about eternity and the brevity of life.
Tradition was discarded during John Lewis' funeral last week in Atlanta. Like the memorial service of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) in 2008, the Lewis service was a political event that included veiled denunciations of President Trump. There were allegations of voter suppression by Republicans and a comparison of Trump by former President Obama to the late Alabama governor and segregationist, George Wallace.
On that last point, it was Wallace who stood in a schoolhouse door 1963 in an effort to stop African Americans from entering the University of Alabama. Today's Democrats have it reversed. They are blocking poor kids from escaping failed public schools, bowing to the desires of teachers' unions that support and contribute campaign money to Democratic politicians.
Obama also criticized President Trump for sending federal agents to Portland, Oregon, to help quell violence that had gone on for more than 60 days.
Presumably, President Obama would not have been opposed to President Eisenhower's decision in 1957 to send the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students entering Central High School.
Someone should ask the former president if he approved of President John F. Kennedy's decision on May 21, 1961 to send 300 federal marshals to Montgomery, Alabama, to keep order after race riots broke out when then-governor John Patterson said he could not guarantee the peace.
President Obama apparently ignored another historical event in which federal forces were used to achieve a civil rights goal. On September 20, 1962, James Meredith attempted to register as a student at the University of Mississippi. The entrance was blocked and rioting erupted. Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent 500 U.S. Marshals to the school. President Kennedy sent military police, troops from the Mississippi National Guard and even U.S. Border Patrol officials.
Is President Obama OK with President Kennedy's decision on June 11, 1963 to federalize Alabama National Guard troops to end then-governor George Wallace's blockade of African Americans attempting to enter the University of Alabama?
On March 20, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to protect the civil rights March from Selma to Montgomery of which John Lewis was a notable part. President Obama probably favors that decision. A reporter should ask him.
Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas all had governors at the time who were Democrats and segregationists and yet today's Democrats claim Trump is a racist.
In his "eulogy," Barack Obama also mentioned mail-in ballots, the latest effort by Democrats (early voting and no required identification are other efforts) that many believe could open the door to voter fraud.
One pastor at the Lewis funeral even reached back to the Reagan administration and erroneously blamed the 40th president for the poor housing conditions endured by some African Americans.
Democrats and their media allies consistently ignore the fact that Jim Crow Laws, the Ku Klux Klan and other immoralities were all led by Southern Democrats.
John Lewis' legacy and his brave fight for civil rights will always remain untarnished. But Lewis was also a partisan Democrat, who refused to attend President Trump's inauguration in 2017 and believed to the end that the Russians helped Trump beat Hillary Clinton, though that would likely have required the infiltration of every precinct and voting machine in America, something not even Lewis claims was possible.
What was even sadder than the politicized funeral service was the applause from attendees, who apparently believe every word that comes from President Obama's mouth, though none of this kind of talk improves a single life. It makes one wonder why so many African Americans continue to be loyal to the Democratic Party.
For the left, everything is an event that can be turned into a political benefit.
And none of the attendees have to self-quarantine after returning from the er...funeral.
Note to loved ones being denied a funeral for their dead family or friends: Just call it a John Lewis memorial service. Per the powers that be, that designation confers WuFlu immunity.
Thank you Captain Obvious.
Took forever to get that old man in the hole.
It sure did.
For practical purposes, if the guy at the podium is a minister or family member....it’s a funeral. If it’s any political figure....it’s not a funeral. I don’t how it’d be classified if it were a 3rd Baseman from the Cubs, or a Tony Robbins-like character.
Sorry but John Lewis was no hero or paragon of virtue. Did he ever raise his voice to object to the wholesale killing of pre born black lives? Did he ever object when the liberals purposely situated their abortion clinics in black neighborhoods? Did he ever refuse to accept the liberal’s money?
Anybody see Dubya stand, clap, and cheer or did they exit before all the campaigning started ?
Just like that senator’s funeral years back turned into a fiasco in the fall of 2002 for Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone.
A 2 week travelling political rally, just like McCain’s funeral.
I didn’t watch any of it. As a matter of fact I didn’t even watch Fox News which I normally watch. I watched game shows on the Game show channel, or old TV shows like The Virginian, Chips, Knight Rider, etc
The inappropriateness of the “eulogy” was lost on the audience who gave the Messiah lavish applause, including standing Os.
Human interaction has been a part of the process. How the
interaction evolves sets the course/landscape for some period
of time.
Humans have a short life span here in the evolving process.
Make the best of it. We can agree or disagree to change and
hopefully improve the world.
Not all will agree upon the change or ways to implement it. JMO
It’s funny to see how highly these politicians think of themselves while the vast majority of Americans think they are scum. The last thing these lowlifes want is for Americans to come together and unite. They soil themselves at the thought of Americans uniting against them. That’s what needs to happen.
The Wellstone Memorial never ends with these people.
They turn every funeral into a hate rage towards conservatives and Republicans and pretty much everything to do with America.
decades
Well rehearsed because of George Floyd
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