The AP is reporting that Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, says John McCain is ’sowing seeds of hatred’ reminiscent of Gov. George Wallace during the 1960’s. That’s a blatant lie.
I was in Alabama during those years and lived the Wallace experience. The McCain campaign reflects nothing, I repeat, nothing even remotely similar to the white supremacist politics of George Wallace or, by the way, J. B. Stoner, a Klan member who ran on a White Supremacist platform. Lewis is WAY off base if he thinks he’s the only one around who knows anything about that place and time. I’ll take him to task any day of the week to talk Alabama in the 60’s.
Meanwhile, Lewis has joined with others to wag a sternly-warning finger at McCain and Palin for remarks concerning Obama’s personal relationship with Bill Ayers. Those remarks include nothing, I repeat, nothing that is not factually correct. Bill and Bernardine Dohrn Ayers are, in fact, unrepentant domestic terrorists. Obama did, in fact, attend ‘get to know your candidate’ functions in the Ayers home during his run for the Illinois Senate as Dohrn took him under her wing to introduce him to the ‘neighborhood’. And, during this year’s primary campaign, Obama did, in fact, say that he and the Ayers ‘grill steaks together’. Sarah Palin has rightly stated that Obama ‘pals around’ with domestic terrorists.
Lewis’ remarks include the following regarding McCain and Palin: “They are playing a very dangerous game that disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire democracy. We can do better. The American people deserve better.” To that, I say this: What is there about the factual disclosure of Obama’s relationship with the Ayers that devalues the political process or somehow ‘cheapens’ our democracy? The truth is what it is. Lewis doesn’t like it. Obama supporters don’t like it. Nevertheless, the facts remain and those cannot be changed. Lewis wants us to ‘do better’ by ignoring those. He thinks we ‘deserve better’. What ‘better’ can be handed the voting populace than accurate disclosure of the radical influences surrounding a candidate for national public office? Add Wright, Pfleger, Rezko, and mouthpieces from Muslim organizations named as unindicted co-conspirators in Federal terrorism trials to the list and tell me who’s got Lewis’ ‘dangerous game’ going. Hint: It isn’t John McCain.
