Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Obama camp played Race Card

Last night on PBS's News Hour, civil rights icon, MLK friend and Congressman, John Lewis said:"I must tell you...I'm trying to set the record straight...the Obama camp is doing something else, theyr'e sending out memos to the media trying to suggest that the Clintons are playing the race card."

Rep. Lewis forcefully condemned both Obama and his campaign for sending out the 5 pointed attacks on the Clintons and their supporters which implied they were "racists" or using "racist code" Rep. Lewis also spoke about how obama himself was being wholly misleading as regards to Hillary and her comment about LBJ and MLK .

"It is unfortunate that people have tried to distort what Mrs. Clinton had to say about Dr. King," "I think there has been a deliberate and systematic attempt by some people in the Obama campaign to really fan the flames about race and to really distort what Senator Clinton said. I understood and I think most right thinking people understood what she said.

"President and Senator Clinton have a record, a history, a very long history of bringing people together. No right thinking American would ever think that Senator or President Clinton would ever do anything that would use the race card"

By the way, the expected and disgusting attacks on Rep. Lewis have already begun, in Sunday's Washington Post, William Jelani Cobblets, a Obama supporter whose greatest contribution to our culture seems to be as the author of a book called, "The Devil and Dave Chappelle", wrote in a Op-Ed that; "John Lewis is of the group that had "parlayed its dated activist credentials into cash and jobs". "To the extent that the term "leader" is applicable...Lewis is essentially representative-for-life of the 5th Congressional District in Georgia" who "opts to support a white machine politician."

Can you imagine that the man who wrote these words is a Asst. Professor of History at Spellman College?

Then you have Charlie Rangel:
"I'm angry because I'm looking for the white people that are insulting me, and I can't find them" - Rep. Charlie Rangel
"How race got into this thing is because Obama said `race,'" Rangel tells Political Anchor Dominic Carter. "But there is nothing that Hillary Clinton has said that baffles me. I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and the Voting Rights Act. But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid. It's absolutely dumb to infer that Doctor King, alone, passed the legislation and signed it into law."

This is terrible!

http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080115/VIDEO/80115026&oaso=news.rgj.com/breakingnews

On the other hand, if you listen to black radio, the vast majority of african americans disagree.

for Moynihan's seat after Moynihan announced his retirement. Balcks are breaking 42-40% for Obama in NYC, per a Daily News poll a few days ago. Rangel has to rehabilitate Clinton to save his own influence in the black community.

Clyburn, on the other hand, who did take exception to some remarks, is neutral.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2008/01/08/lewis_thank_goodness_for_obama.html?cxntfid=blogs_political_insider



“Thank goodness for what Obama has been doing in Iowa and New Hampshire. It’s historic,” Lewis said. “He’s tapped into a part of the electorate looking something different, something new.”

and try to blame it on Obama. Its really bad irony.

;)

before you make such claims.

I know you love posting other peoples stuff.

YOU are a joke.

It's played out...

Seriously.

And decide for yourself.

IMO, you would be hard-pressed to determine that the memo (written at the end of the "race argument" btw), had anything to do with this.

Please don't post things here that you know not to be true. A misunderstanding or a mistinterpretation is fine. But you have to recognize that something created after an incident happened, cannot have been involved in the beginning of that incident. It's logic.