Discussion: John Lewis On Sanders' Civil Rights Record: 'I Never Saw Him'

system1 · February 11, 2016, 5:21pm

Discussion for article #245893

humpback · February 11, 2016, 5:23pm

Sanders on race: “Why some of my best friends … don’t seem
to know me.”

slinkerwink · February 11, 2016, 5:26pm

Picture evidence of Rep. Lewis and Bernie at the Selma bridge together:

https://thesystemsscientist.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/bernie-sanders-50th-anniversary-selma-march.jpg

barblzz · February 11, 2016, 5:29pm

That pic is from 2014 not the sixties.

wagonmound · February 11, 2016, 5:31pm

John Lewis is a great man and a boob!

barblzz · February 11, 2016, 5:33pm

Your not a great person and your a boob, what’s your point?

seedeevee · February 11, 2016, 5:33pm

I guess Sanders needed to kiss John Lewis’ ring. Or something else.

doremus_jessup · February 11, 2016, 5:33pm

Pretty sure it was snark.

professorpoopypants · February 11, 2016, 5:34pm

Stop it. John Lewis is a great man, PERIOD.

doremus_jessup · February 11, 2016, 5:34pm

Bernie Sanders voted for the '94 crime bill.

Edit to add:

Bernie Sanders voted for the '94 crime bill.
Bernie Sanders voted for the '94 crime bill.
Bernie Sanders voted for the '94 crime bill.
Bernie Sanders voted for the '94 crime bill.
etc.

pluckyinky · February 11, 2016, 5:34pm

Ah, yes, so now along with Gloria Steinen, Paul Krugman, Planned Parenthood, and the Human Rights Campaign, John Lewis shall be sacrificed to the purity gods as well.

astro_walker · February 11, 2016, 5:35pm

Here comes the Clinton smear machine.

darcy · February 11, 2016, 5:36pm

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

FU John Lewis

astro_walker · February 11, 2016, 5:36pm

well thats how Clinton works.

cali_man · February 11, 2016, 5:38pm

Wow, major swing and a miss on that one

barblzz · February 11, 2016, 5:38pm

On behalf of John Lewis, Right Back at You!

wiscojoe · February 11, 2016, 5:39pm

So is this part of the campaign where the Sanders camp tries to dismiss John Lewis’ record on civil rights in order to over-inflate his own?

doremus_jessup · February 11, 2016, 5:39pm

inorite? John Lewis is part of the establishment. Why doesn’t Hillary just quit? She was first lady when she single-handedly built the prison industrial complex.

squirreltown · February 11, 2016, 5:39pm

Rep. John Lewis commits politics, systems collapse on a global scale.

k_in_va · February 11, 2016, 5:40pm

This celebration of an historic event. was a photo op for a lot of people. It was NOT the in-the-trenches work for civil rights back in the day, when Lewis got his head cracked open by racists. Big diff.