Rep. John Lewis

On Saturday our Atlanta congressman inferred that John McCain and Sarah Palin were inciting violence in the manner practiced by George Wallace. All because the candidates have questioned the Obama-Ayers relationship. Representative Lewis said the Republicans are...

sowing the seeds of hatred and division,

Further slathering ....

During another period, in the not-too-distant past, there was a governor of a state of Alabama named George Wallace who also became a presidential candidate. George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their Constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.

The suggestion being that Wallace used words to incite violence, and now MacCain and Palin are doing the same.

It seems a silly point to have to make that the candidate Barck Obama half white and the terrorist William Ayers is completely white. Another silly point, if Condoleezza Rice ever mentioned the Birmingham bombings in a political speech, the dimocrats and press would jump on her with both feet, and she knew one of the girls that died in the tragedy. Only dimocrats are allowed to have insight and loss.

I remember the bombing of that Sunday School at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963. I did not see it happen, but I heard it happen, and I felt it happen, just a few blocks away at my father’s church. It is a sound that I will never forget, that will forever reverberate in my ears. That bomb took the lives of four young girls, including my friend and playmate, Denise McNair. The crime was calculated to suck the hope out of young lives, bury their aspirations. But those fears were not propelled forward, those terrorists failed.

Why is it that Lewis feels compelled to trot out the race card? That is easy really, its about the audience and what inspires them. Much like a revival meeting, Lewis is trying to inspire his dimocrat constituency into a fervor that obviates study of content. Can't blame him for trying, he's just an asshole for throwing it out there. John Lewis votes the party line and offers no creativity in the House of Representatives, his district deserves better.

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