Posted on 10/11/2008 4:38:41 PM PDT by neverdem
There is no arguing with true evil and hate which is what that group is all about. As a matter of fact the neo-civil rights movement is about the same its not about rights at all.
He was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington and was president of SNCC and one of, if not, the leading student figure during the Civil Rights Movement. He did some brave things but like all too many people in this world he should have quit while he was ahead. He could be remembered as a brave young Civil Rights fighter. Instead he will go down being remembered as a hack and a crank.
McCain has been in Congress for almost 30 years and he still thinks he can deal honorably with Democrats.
They have used him whenever they could against Republicans and especially conservatives. He actually thought they would treat him as Obama’s opponent as well as they treated him when he fought Republicans. They have played him for a sucker and he still doesn’t get it.
If nothing else, this campaign will prove that when the RINOs and the establishment types run the GOP and pick the candidates who run on a platform of liberal-lite, they will lose.
Reagan and Gingrich proved that when you run as principled conservatives, they will win.
Differentiating oneself from the opponent is how you get votes. Except for the war, where does McCain and the RINOs differentiate themselves from Obama and the Democrats? Spending? Immigration? Campaign free speech?
Every time McCain crossed over to help the liberals he made himself more like them. Every time he criticized conservatives, he made himself more like them. Now when he needs people to vote for him, the voters say why? - he’s just like them.
The race card is now in play.
In fairness to him, he probably got the fictitious shark story mixed up with the real one about the vultures that still patrol the Gettysburg Battlefield where a whole lot of white folks died in the cause to end slavery.
If he wants to see hate, Lewis should take the blinders off and observe the anti-war, anti-American, anti-troop freaks at any Obama rally, or better yet, just sit and observe some of his leftwing colleagues in the Congress, or even better yet, look in the mirror.
Yesterday we had the guy many suspect of being a dem plant - sent to the rally to holler out and manufacture a controversy - which he did. And now Lewis comes out and stirs the pot.
Good points about what happened after segregation was defeated. The factors such as the breakdown of the black family and high illegitimacy, terrible schools in cities with high black populations, high dropout rates, gang violence, etc. have not been dealt with at all by groups such as NAACP. They defeated legal segregation, but these other problems have continued and multiplied.
Maybe these other problems persist because you can’t pass a law against illegitimacy, you can’t pass a law requiring high school graduation, or a law guaranteeing that students will learn something in school. As tough as the civil rights struggle was, the easiest part was getting the laws changed. The harder part comes when dealing with voluntary bad behavior, such as someone deciding to drop out of school, or deciding to get involved with a gang, or a guy deciding he won’t marry his baby mama girlfriend.
You on patrol of the slave ship routes looking to beat off the sharks ...That was Major Owens who said that:
...Once declared in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives that a hundred million blacks perished on the journey from Africa to America, and that so many of the dead were thrown overboard that, to this day, sharks still follow the routes taken by the slave ships.
“As Barack Obama has said himself, the last thing we need from either party is the kind of angry, divisive rhetoric that tears us apart at a time of crisis when we desperately need to come together. That is the kind of campaign Senator Obama will continue to run in the weeks ahead,”
Hear this:
We DON’T want to come together with a terrorist symphathizer and communist front-man.
That’s the issue. Whether Obama be white, yellow, gray, or black, he along with his friends and supporters are anti-American.
Perhaps McCain should reconsider his prior "lavish praise," if he obviously only now is seeing the real man.
I have no idea what the context of that prior lavish praise was, or the motivation behind it, but again clearly, McCain may have underestimated the pitfalls of impulsive actions, no matter how well-intentioned.
More and more Democrats and MSM spokesmouths are saying that if you do not vote for Obama you are a racist. Clearly McCain and Palin do not plan to vote for Obama. I do not like the idea of being called a racist because I do not plan to vote for Obama. Obama is too green; he supports the culture of death; he supports gay marriage; he supports higher taxes; he is too far to the left even of Hillary Clinton; he has no experience; he has many corrupt friends; he represents a corrupt political party.
Lewis is the epitome of a racist. He hates white people. Yes, blck CAN be racists. It’s time to have THAT discussion in America.
This is liberal logic, and is from that other dimension.
Still, I need to remind myself that, as far as I know, neither McCain not Palin ever had dinner with Wallace, or attended fund raisers with the Klu Klux Klan, or attended a rabid racist's church for twenty years.
Other than that I suppose the comparison is not a big surprise.
Desperation tends to embrace irrational and non-sensical accusations.
The time where simply an accusation was the kiss of death has long been over, adults simply know better.
When Lewis ran against Julian Bond in the 1980s, he raised the accusation of cocaine use by Bond, I think it was something A) that Bond’s wife had said when they split, and of course B) Lewis had known Bond for years before that, so it sounded as if it came from experience. Lewis’ was a really positive campaign, no hatred at all...
We all better brace ourselves. The Hard Left is already laying the groundwork so that every single, solitary criticism of Obama or his policies for the next four years (or, much longer, if he decides to declare himself “President for Life) will be labeled “racist.”
Rep. John Lewis: Report of delegate switch to Obama ‘not accurate’
Atlanta Journal Constitution | 2/15/08 | AARON GOULD SHEININ, BOB KEMPER
Posted on 02/15/2008 3:58:29 PM PST by LdSentinal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971165/posts
Black Superdelegates Shift to Obama - John Lewis Switches From Clinton to Obama
ABC | Feb 15, 2008 | JAKE TAPPER
Posted on 02/15/2008 6:04:45 AM PST by RDTF
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1970818/posts
Clinton Supporter John Lewis Has Second Thoughts
Washington Post | 02-14-2008 | By Anne E. Kornblut
Posted on 02/15/2008 2:33:41 AM PST by johnny7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970742/posts
Obama could not answer this because his party's platform and he himself is for mass legalization of these invaders.
There you have it. This is how McCain get swoop up massive segments of the Undecideds.
Do YOU want him to do this?
Do YOU want him to win the election?
Does HE want to win the election?
They are all ignoring it right now. He ignores it to his peril. At the very lease, unmuzzle Sarah Palin on the campaign trail so SHE can talk about this plank in the GOP Platform on Illegals that they should not be ashamed of.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.