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Civil rights icon says McCain stirs hate
politico.com ^ | 10/11/08 | MIKE ALLEN & JONATHAN MARTIN

Posted on 10/11/2008 4:38:41 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 10/11/2008 4:38:41 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

...and Jeremiah Wright doesn’t?.....William Ayers doesn’t?...Michelle Obama doesn’t?... Okay.


2 posted on 10/11/2008 4:40:20 PM PDT by madison10
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To: neverdem

Isn’t this the Rat McCain said he admired? lol! No good deed goes unpunished John! You deserve it for being nice to Rats!


3 posted on 10/11/2008 4:40:54 PM PDT by devere
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To: neverdem

Hello, hello, is that you Kenneth? You on patrol of the slave ship routes looking to beat off the sharks ...

This guy is a loon, how else do you describe his membership in the party of segregation and the kKK.


4 posted on 10/11/2008 4:41:27 PM PDT by Tarpon (Barrack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
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To: neverdem
[Lewis] pointed in his posting to “the negative tone of the McCain-Palin campaign,”

I see, it's the tone Lewis objects to.

Not surprising he couldn't come up with any specifics.

5 posted on 10/11/2008 4:41:58 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: neverdem

Gee, John...all those folks you thought were your friends. The Democrats, the media—they don’t know you or own you. All you’ve got left are those you won’t know or own.


6 posted on 10/11/2008 4:42:10 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: neverdem

Father says my three-year-old self was perched on his shoulder at an MLK speech in ‘67.

All bow before me. I’m a Civil Rights Icon.


7 posted on 10/11/2008 4:43:40 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: neverdem

I hate to say it, neverdem, but these are John McCain’s “chickens coming home to roost.”

After all the years of being the maverick and Mr. Compromiser (Gang of 13; McCain-Feingold; etc. etc.), now he finds his esteemed colleagues across the aisle dropping him like a brick when he needs at least their understanding and acknowledgement, if not support.

This is one frustrating campaign.

I’d like to ask Senator McCain: “Why did you run? Why didn’t you sit out of the primaries and allow some other Republican aspirant who has some **nads to give this a shot and to go after either Obama or Hillary. You, Sir, obviously don’t have the fire in your belly...” Or something like that. What a disgusting campaign. This is worst than watching the stock market meltdown day after day... or the Cubs play in the post season... Disgusting.


8 posted on 10/11/2008 4:44:54 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: neverdem

Civil rights icon my rear. Dr. King he is not. Bet your bottom dollar that the MSM would never refer to Clarence Thomas as a civil rights icon. Or anyone who fights for civil rights issues that still matter (in the sense that de jure racism was settled more than forty years ago), like gun rights or property rights.


9 posted on 10/11/2008 4:44:55 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: neverdem
When did Lewis become a "civil rights icon"? I thought he was just your usual sleazy Dim congressman....
10 posted on 10/11/2008 4:44:59 PM PDT by BamaDi (John McCain /Sarah Palin - my choice for President /VP and the USA's only option!)
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To: neverdem
"During the debates over the Contract with America Rep. John Lewis read Martin Niemoller's timeless speech about the Nazi takeover: "They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews ... trade unionists ... Catholics ... Protestants ..." And then with all the gravity he could muster he said, “Read the Republican contract. They are coming for the children. They are coming for the poor. They are coming for the sick, the elderly, and the disabled.”"

Courtesy of Jonah Goldberg

11 posted on 10/11/2008 4:46:41 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (MSM Lied, Journalism Died. RIP 2008)
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To: neverdem

“George Wallace never threw a bomb,”

Ayers, on the other hand...


12 posted on 10/11/2008 4:50:07 PM PDT by aroostook war
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To: BamaDi

John Lewis marched at Selma during the voting rights march there, and was beaten there along with the other marchers. He was a key member of SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, during the civil rights movement. He has been considered an icon because of that.


13 posted on 10/11/2008 4:50:20 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: aroostook war

Ayers on the other hand, did set off bombs. Good point.


14 posted on 10/11/2008 4:51:22 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: neverdem

“Civil rights icon says McCain stirs hate “

Icon, my ass! Lewis is a race-baiting piece of pond scum who has lived on hating whitey and isn’t worthy of breathing good men’s air. If ever the “N” word applied, he is it!


15 posted on 10/11/2008 4:51:39 PM PDT by dbacks (I would rather be Sarah Palin than Para-Sailin'!)
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To: BamaDi

showin the thug thizzle, jus’ doin his thang. Icon as in I con the voters. FH


16 posted on 10/11/2008 4:51:39 PM PDT by tommyboy
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To: neverdem

It would appear the entire Democrat Party has subscribed to “Rules for Radicals”, by Saul Alinsky.

John, the next time you “reach across the aisle” you won’t only get burned, you’ll get broiled!

Some people never learn.


17 posted on 10/11/2008 4:52:02 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( on the cutting edge)
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To: neverdem
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." - Booker T. Washington
18 posted on 10/11/2008 4:53:02 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: neverdem

Lewis isn’t saying a thing that 99% of the black Democratic voters in the Country don’t already believe.


19 posted on 10/11/2008 4:55:48 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts.....)
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To: neverdem

Uh John..wasn’t George Wallace a ....um...a...democRAT?

Why, yes, I believe George Wallace was a democRAT..

John, have you no sense of irony? God knows, John, you have no sense of shame.


20 posted on 10/11/2008 4:56:00 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (I will not vote for Obama not because he is black, but because he is RED)
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