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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Attention Liberals: Save your breath/rants/racism bs. Your con game has expired! We don't care what you say.
I don’t respect that racist old codger! I don’t care what he once did, just like McCain, they are both long past expiration date.
Lewis disrespected Trump; funny the media fails to report that fact and leads people to think Trump just lashed out at him in a tweet out of the blue. Trump just pointed out that Lewis has a job that he has been neglecting. Nothing to do with race, that race card is worn out from overplay. Fake news.
Respected by whom?
I find John Lewis to be one of the most undereducated men in Washington DC.
There was a time John Lewis could have been considered ‘respected’. He took up the reins of the Civil Rights movement after the death of Dr. King, and could have done good things for black people in America. Sadly, he went against what Dr. King had worked for, and started the race baiting that we see in full bloom today, blaming white people for all the ills of black people today.
“In feud with John Lewis, Donald Trump attacked one of the most respected people in America”
ROTFLOL!
Most people in the U.S. had never even heard of this clown until he attacked President Trump!
In the liberal world when you respond to an attack by them you then become the attacker; however, if a conservative were to attack a liberal you are still the attacker. Libs sure are an enlightened group, aren’t they?
Respected? Someone respects the idiot that refuses to respect the country’s choice for President?
There is no excuse for John Lewis to proclaim as a sitting congressman that Trump is not a legitimately elected president.
That was nothing but black racism and disrespect for this country and the voters.
lewis
stuck in the 60’s
one card libtard.... race card
Lewis is a liar and racist. He’s not one of the most respected Americans.
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