John Lewis Stands Tall - Obama-Inspired Primary Challenger Fades

Justice Prevails (0.00 / 0)

As for those punks who took him on - and that goon who tried to unseat him all I can say is you ought to be ashamed of yourself young man.

Well that and NANNY NANNY BOO BOO!

(Tosser!)

This is some of the best news in a long while CampSkunk!  Thanks a million for sharing this with us!!!!

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by: Alegre @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 22:09:39 PM CDT

This is great news...maybe "Obama clones" won't be succeeding (0.00 / 0)

in their threats after all. It's just too bad people thought they would and felt the need to switch support to Obama.

I hope John Lewis stands tall at the convention and votes for Hillary...if she's on the ballot. If she isn't, all hell should break loose...

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by: GRL @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 22:47:51 PM CDT

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And so will go.. (0.00 / 0)

Obama..

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by: owl06 @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 22:14:50 PM CDT

From Your Lips to the Super D's Ears Owl (0.00 / 0)

Here's hoping they wise up and do it sooner rather than too late.  There's sooooooooo much riding on their decision next month and yes, they CAN (and MUST!) change their vote to the one person who can save our @sses this November.

H I L L A R Y!!!!

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by: Alegre @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 22:20:35 PM CDT

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Good for John Lewis! (0.00 / 0)

Now, if he'll just switch back to Hillary Clinton, who didn't do this sort of nonsense because she's way too classy to spend her time on petty vengeance, I'll be even happier yet.

Just goes to show that you can't fool all the people all of the time.

Thanks again, Campskunk!  Yeah!

There's no excuse for this, DNC.  None.

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by: LSekhmet @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 22:26:28 PM CDT

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It's outrageous! (0.00 / 0)

I remember reading stories about an AA super delegate in Ohio who endorsed Hillary.  He said he was glad that it was cold outside so he didn't have to go out because he was being harrassed and threatened by the 'bots.  He said his family was even threatened.  What is this?  What has happened to people?

Puma-SF

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by: Toni4Hill @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 22:53:19 PM CDT

WooHoo!! (0.00 / 0)

This is the happiest news of the month!!

Here's a relevant article from July 1, NYT:

A New Campaign Charge: You Supported Clinton

Does it occur to any of you guys that Repubs aim throughout this primary has been to lose and have the weakest Dem imaginable win the WH? We all know the chits gonna hit the fan in the next several months to year, and what a gift to have an ineffectual, inexperienced, cluedog DEM in the WH when it does. :-/

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by: jen @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 23:06:55 PM CDT

EXCELLENT article. (0.00 / 0)

the ugliest thuggishness of the Obama campaign has been the stuff going on inside the Congressional Black Caucus.  

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.

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by: campskunk @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 23:26:27 PM CDT

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Call/write to Lewis to congratulate him. (0.00 / 0)

http://www.house.gov/formjohnl...

(202) 225-3801 Phone

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by: xdemocrat @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 23:30:43 PM CDT

here's why john lewis deserves respect. (0.00 / 0)

he never forgets what we went through to get here.

http://johnlewis.house.gov/ind...

June 27, 2008: Rep. John Lewis Sponsors Bill to Honor Sacrifice of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

On Monday, Rep. John Lewis introduced H. Res. 1293 to commemorate of the 44th anniversary of the deaths of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner who were murdered during the Freedom Summer campaign of 1964.  The effort was a nationwide call for volunteers to help register black voters in Mississippi.

           The brutal murders drew the nation's attention to the violent resistance of Southern segregationists and provoked an outpouring of support for the Freedom Summer campaign and the ongoing Civil Rights Movement.  Despite the widespread attention received by the case, no one was convicted for the murders for more than forty years.   In 2005, on the day they disappeared more than 40 years later, Edgar Ray Killen, a leader of the local Klu Klux Klan group responsible for the deaths, was convicted of those crimes.

           While the Freedom Summer campaign marked the climax of voter-registration activities in the South, the murders of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner alerted the nation to the sacrifice made by Civil Rights activists in the fight for voting rights in America.    The bill had 20 co-sponsors and was passed on suspension in the U.S. House of Representatives by a voice vote.

           When he introduced the bill Rep. Lewis made this statement on the House floor:

"Madame Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the courage and conviction of three young men - Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner.  On June 21, 1964, they gave their lives in the struggle for voting rights in America.

"There was a time, just 44 years ago, when it was almost impossible in the American South for people of color to register and vote.  Then I was 23 years old and the chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. I traveled around the country encouraging people to come to Mississippi to get involved with the Freedom Summer of 1964.  

"At that time the state of Mississippi had a population of more than 450,000 blacks, but only 18,000 were registered to vote.  It was dangerous, very dangerous, for those of us who believed that everyone should have the right to vote.   But in spite of the risks, there were people-young and old, black and white, rich and poor-people like Andy Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner, who put aside the comfort of their own lives to make sure that every citizen had free and fair access to the ballot in America.

"Mickey Schwerner was a twenty-four-year-old, Jewish man from Brooklyn, New York, who was already a participant in the movement.  Andy Goodman, also Jewish, was 21-years-old and a student at Queens College in New York.  James Chaney was a 21-year-old African American man from Meridian, Mississippi who decided to take a stand for justice in his own community.

"On the morning of June 21, 1964, these three young men drove to Longdale, MississippiPhiladelphia, Mississippi. That same evening, they were released from the jail by the sheriff and turned over to the Klan. Then were beaten, shot and killed. to investigate the burning of an African American church. On their way back, they were arrested by the sheriff, taken to jail in

"Their burnt blue Ford station wagon was pulled from a creek, just two days later.  I joined the search for them that night with a very heavy heart. Their bodies were found a few weeks later on August 4, 1964, buried under a mound of dirt.

"Madame Speaker, I share this story today so that members of Congress will realize that the struggle for civil rights has been a long, hard road, littered by the battered and broken bodies of countless men and women who paid the ultimate price for a precious right-the right to vote.

"Andy Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner did not die in Europe. They did not die in Asia. Or in Africa.  They did not die in Central America. Or in the Middle East. They died right here in the America-in the American South.  I knew these three young men.

"I urge all of my colleagues to vote for this resolution, to pay tribute to these three young men, and so many others, who died in the struggle for voting rights in America.  We must never forget their sacrifice.  As members of the U.S. House of Representatives, it is our duty, our mission, our mandate to make sure that these three young men did not die in vain. Thank you, Madame Speaker."

           

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.

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by: campskunk @ Tue Jul 15, 2008 at 23:47:51 PM CDT

What card is next? (0.00 / 0)

We all remember when he said that "periodically" when she gets a little upset the claws come out.  He's been saying John McCain is cranky for a couple of years.  How stupid do they think we is?

Puma-SF

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by: Toni4Hill @ Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 00:43:09 AM CDT

Good for John Lewis! (0.00 / 0)

And good for the voters in his district that had the brains to know wheat from chaff.

And the fact that Obama took the time to throw a cheap shot at a man like John Lewis shows one more time that he is not fit to be president. Good grief, such pettiness in and of itself shows a man too small for the job he seeks.

Lewis walked the walk. Obama talks and talks and...

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by: kenoshaMarge @ Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 06:20:10 AM CDT

Oh this is rich... (0.00 / 0)

BO can't be bothered to attend the State of Black America Conference, yet Hillary did, after all the crap that was flung at Bill Clinton in SC. He's got a lot of flipping nerve calling someone like John Lewis out. Another reason I can't stand this guy.  

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by: soupcity @ Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 08:29:40 AM CDT

"I am not so much into the fights of 60s anf 70s" (0.00 / 0)

It was that statement that raised the first big alarm bells about B0. And now have his brown shirts try to put that in practice by unseating a civil rights leader....
And failing miserably.
Thank you for this uplifting morality tale.

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by: Notyoursweetie @ Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 19:20:46 PM CDT