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Democrat Civil Rights Leader Drops Race Card Bomb on McCain-Palin
floppingaces.net - 10/11/2008
Democrat Civil Rights Leader Drops Race Card Bomb on McCain-Palin
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Outrageous! McCain camp calls on Obama to “repudiate” statements. John Lewis, invoking George Wallace, says McCain and Palin ‘playing with fire’ Jonathon Martin The Politico October 11, 2008 Civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis [DEMOCRAT] ...

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Wise Black Man: Apologize!
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... John McCain’s campaign is demanding that civil rights leader John Lewis take back his statements regarding the, er, shall we say putschesque nature of recent McCain rallies.  I really don’t see what issue there is with taking a racial minority, making them a catch-all scapegoat for all of society’s problems and then whipping a crowd of the angry and disaffected racial majority into a lather about all the injustices he will visit upon them.  When’s that ever gone wrong? ...

Related: john lewis, for comparing mccain-palin to george wallace.
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