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John Lewis vs. John McCain
From NBC's Carrie DannGeorgia congressman John Lewis -- a civil rights leader and a man once deemed by John McCain as one of the "wisest" men he knew and one whose advice he would seek as president -- today likened the "negative tone" of McCain's campaign to that of incendiary segregation advocate George Wallace in the 1960s. "What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history," Lewis wrote in a statement first posted on Politico's website....( ...
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John Lewis Warns McCain: You're "Sowing The Seeds Of Hatred And Division"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... The criticism from Lewis is especially sharp considering McCain has called him one of the "wisest" men he knows, one whose advice he would seek should he win the presidency. ...

John Lewis Warns McCain: You're "Sowing The Seeds Of Hatred And Division"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The criticism from Lewis is especially sharp considering McCain has called him one of the "wisest" men he knows, one whose advice he would seek should he win the presidency. ...

So when is McCain going to repudiate his supporters' calls for Obama to be assassinated?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — I just saw that McCain issued some erratic statement today calling on Obama to apologize because Rep. John Lewis said that McCain and Palin "are playing a very dangerous game" with their hate-inspiring rhetoric. Just two months ago, McCain told us that ...

Palin: Why is everyone talking about the economy when we should be talking about abortion!
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truthPalin yesterday in Pennsylvania: “In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may be easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life, and it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that,” Palin told a Pennsylvania crowd.Still think this woman should be in charge of your 401k? Oh, who cares if you lost half your retirement, at least with a Palin administration you can be sure women will be forced to keep and give birth to their rapists' babies (after we make them pay for their rape kits). After ...

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