"Not accepting the election results threatens our democracy."

FeeNicks said:

No Joke: John Lewis Says He Forgot He Boycotted George W. Bush’s Inauguration…



So he’s either a liar or senile.

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4est_4est_Gump said:

Maybe he should be tested for Alzheimer's...

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FeeNicks said:

No Joke: John Lewis Says He Forgot He Boycotted George W. Bush’s Inauguration…



So he’s either a liar or senile.

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4est_4est_Gump said:

So start funding Maxine Waters' campaign to impeach Trump...




... and they say "The Greatest Show on Earth' is coming to an end!

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Ishmael said:

It's going from hilarious to out and out bizarre. First Lewis grabs a few minutes of fame with his outlandish bullshit.

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CHUCK TODD: Do you plan on trying to forge a relationship with Donald Trump?

JOHN LEWIS: No. I believe forgiveness. I believe in trying to work with people. It's going to be hard. It's going to be very difficult. I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president.

TODD: You do not consider him a legitimate president. Why is that?

LEWIS: I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected and they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

Why Lewis does not think Trump is a legitimate president-elect:

"I think there was a conspiracy on the part of the Russians and others that helped him get elected. That's not right. That's not fair. That's not the open, democratic process."

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John Lewis represents Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District, one vote of four hundred and thirty-five. He is also the singular conscience of Capitol Hill. Lewis is a dismal institution’s griot, a historical actor and hero capable of telling the most complex and painful of American stories—the story of race. That is his job, his mission. With Dr. King and Malcolm X, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker long gone, Lewis remains nearly alone in his capacity to tell the story of that era as a direct witness and, because of all that he has seen and endured, to issue credible moral judgment.

Only a heedless few would reject that judgment out of hand, no matter how wounding. Who would think to call John Lewis “all talk, talk, talk—no action or results”? Who would have the impoverished language to dismiss the whole of John Lewis as “sad”? As it happens, the President-elect of the United States.

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One can agree or not with Lewis when he calls Trump’s legitimacy into doubt. What cannot be doubted is Lewis’s exemplary life, his moral gravity and authority. He is the rare figure who reminds a people of the fragility of their freedoms and puts his body on the line to protect and demand them.

<recounts the story of the Edmund Pettus Bridge march>

That night, an audience of forty-eight million people watched a fifteen-minute report on Selma. President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had urged civil-rights leaders to force his hand if they wanted him to support a voting-rights bill, now saw that it was time to promote one. On national television, he compared Selma to Lexington and Concord as a “turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.” And the Voting Rights Act—now under assault in many ways—became law.

Nevertheless, Trump did not think twice before dismissing Lewis, bing, bing, bing, as “all talk,” and that, in turn, unleashed his chorus. Roger Stone, one of Trump’s more notorious campaign operatives, said on Twitter that Lewis “negates his heroism on the Edmund Pettis [sic] bridge by acting like a partisan hack asshole, never to [sic] taken seriously again.” Nearly as eloquent, Dinesh D’Souza tweeted, “John Lewis is not a ‘legend’—he was a minor player in the civil rights movement, who became a nasty, bitter old man.”

Trump avoided the draft by citing bone spurs in his feet. He has said he has made “a lot of sacrifices” for his country because he has created jobs and “built great structures.” The sacrifices that Lewis has made for his country and for the cause of justice are manifest in the scars on his skull. It is a safe bet that he will not be wounded by any tweet. And there are those who know well what he has done to advance the cause of justice and human rights. Eight years ago, at a lunch following the inaugural ceremonies, the new President signed a piece of paper for him with the inscription “Because of you, John. Barack Obama.” John Lewis surely believes in the orderly transfer of power as a tenet of democracy, but asking him to keep quiet and sit through the inaugural ceremonies this time is asking too much.

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phrodeau said:

"A nasty, bitter old man." Gee, who does that remind me of?

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water505 said:

There's no doubt John Lewis was a major player in the civil rights movement during the sixties. His congressional record has been less than distinguished, to put it mildly. His claim to fame is accusing people of being racists in the grandest tradition of the ignorant left. Calling him a has been would be generous. The man is nothing more than a sacred cow.

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Ishmael said:

It's going from hilarious to out and out bizarre. First Lewis grabs a few minutes of fame with his outlandish bullshit. Not to be outdone Sharpton has to chime in. And now ole Maxine tries playing a trump (pun intended) card. How in the hell is Jesse going to one up those clowns?

Ishmael

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water505 said:

There's no doubt John Lewis was a major player in the civil rights movement during the sixties. His congressional record has been less than distinguished, to put it mildly. His claim to fame is accusing people of being racists in the grandest tradition of the ignorant left. Calling him a has been would be generous. The man is nothing more than a sacred cow.

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4est_4est_Gump said:

LOOK! LOOK! LOOK!

I'm wearing a HAT!

Pure​

Comedy​

GOLD!​

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4est_4est_Gump said:

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/1...missions-colorado-voters-cancel-registration/



tee hee


~*~ tee hee ~*~

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NOIRTRASH said:

Lewis was a johnny come lately in the rear with the gear rear echelon mother fucker the whole time he sat in the office and let others do the walking. Talking is what he does,

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