Posted on 01/15/2017 5:58:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2010, days after returning from Selma, Ala., Mike Pence went on a GOP website and gushed about “my friend” John Lewis.
Then a congressman from Indiana's 6th District, Pence said he was “honored” to walk beside a man personally recruited by Martin Luther King Jr. He talked about how an officer had bashed a younger Lewis in the head during the fight for voting rights. Lewis, he said, was “an integral part of the American story in our nation's unrelenting march toward a more perfect union.”
Now Vice President-elect Pence is one of many leaders picking sides between Lewis and President-elect Donald Trump. Lewis recently called Trump an illegitimate president and Trump responded that the civil rights icon is “all talk.”
In the past year, Trump has gotten into public disputes with a beauty queen and the Muslim parents of a dead soldier. But on the eve of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Trump went back and forth with a man whom John McCain once called “one of the most respected men in America.”
It's a widely held opinion. For a lifetime of civil rights work, Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Last year, the Navy announced it would name a ship after him, making Lewis one of just a few " to get that honor.
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Personally, I have no respect for John Lewis! None whatsoever!
So?
So “respected” he craps all over his constituents and makes up lies about patriotic Tea Party members?
THAT John Lewis?
We’re in real trouble when folks like that have respect.
But, then again, Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch was elected.
As I remember it, Lewis started the conversation.
No, Donald responded to an attack.
This is the liar that said a Tea Party protestor spat on him and called him the n-word, even though the video shows nothing of the sort.
FUJL! You’re nothing but a race pimp!
I don’t respect him. Heard he is a drunkard. Must be why he looks like a bloated toad.
I’m 68 years old...Live in the south....I’ve never heard of him until all this BS.....
No one cares how much respect you have for Lewis. (Same for me).
The key being, how respected a person may be, even fully merited, does not make a person immune from criticism if they say something wrong or insulting or harmful etc...
So Trump is supposed to just sit there and let Lewis refer to him as illegitimate?
I wish that more people fought back against these leftoids.
So as proof of his esteem, they mention how Obama gave him a medal, and Obama is naming a ship after him. Kind of circular reasoning.
My money is on Trump
Lewis is a brain damaged jack ass that once actually lied on the floor of our House of Representative that 100 million Negroes were pushed into the ocean off the coast of Africa By WHITE people in the slave trade, to be eaten by sharks. He is a disillusioned simpleton. he is sad and discombobulated because the communists lost. Screw him!!
i dont respect this asshole. Didnt even knew who he was until the Trump attack and he’s total garbage. Just another race card-throwing inept politician.
Lewis is a brain damaged jack ass that once actually lied on the floor of our House of Representative that 100 million Negroes were pushed into the ocean off the coast of Africa By WHITE people in the slave trade, to be eaten by sharks. He is a disillusioned simpleton. he is sad and discombobulated because the communists lost. Screw him!!
One Of The Most Respected People In America?
What a laugh.
John Lewis is nothing but a racist hack for the democrat party.
He’s been riding on the color of his skin for 50 years.
No one with half a brain would have anything but disdain for him.
I have zero respects for communists
The left spent decades vilifying Charlton Heston, who did more for the civil rights movement than any man other than MLK.
Why is it ok for the Marxists to demonise Mr Heston but Trump cannot offer a robust and logical rebuttal to an underhand attack ?
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