Like the memorial service of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone in 2008, the Lewis service was a political event that included veiled denunciations of President Trump.
Someone should ask the former president if he approved of President John F. Kennedy's decision on May 21, 1961 to send 300 federal marshals to Montgomery, Alabama, to keep order after race riots broke out when then-governor John Patterson said he could not guarantee the peace.
President Obama apparently ignored another historical event in which federal forces were used to achieve a civil rights goal.
Is President Obama OK with President Kennedy's decision on June 11, 1963 to federalize Alabama National Guard troops to end then-governor George Wallace's blockade of African Americans attempting to enter the University of Alabama?
On March 20, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to protect the civil rights March from Selma to Montgomery of which John Lewis was a notable part.
One pastor at the Lewis funeral even reached back to the Reagan administration and erroneously blamed the 40th president for the poor housing conditions endured by some African Americans.
Lewis was also a partisan Democrat, who refused to attend President Trump's inauguration in 2017 and believed to the end that the Russians helped Trump beat Hillary Clinton, though that would likely have required the infiltration of every precinct and voting machine in America, something not even Lewis claims was possible.
Someone should ask the former president if he approved of President John F. Kennedy's decision on May 21, 1961 to send 300 federal marshals to Montgomery, Alabama, to keep order after race riots broke out when then-governor John Patterson said he could not guarantee the peace.
President Obama apparently ignored another historical event in which federal forces were used to achieve a civil rights goal.
Is President Obama OK with President Kennedy's decision on June 11, 1963 to federalize Alabama National Guard troops to end then-governor George Wallace's blockade of African Americans attempting to enter the University of Alabama?
On March 20, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to protect the civil rights March from Selma to Montgomery of which John Lewis was a notable part.
One pastor at the Lewis funeral even reached back to the Reagan administration and erroneously blamed the 40th president for the poor housing conditions endured by some African Americans.
Lewis was also a partisan Democrat, who refused to attend President Trump's inauguration in 2017 and believed to the end that the Russians helped Trump beat Hillary Clinton, though that would likely have required the infiltration of every precinct and voting machine in America, something not even Lewis claims was possible.
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