2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Have we really reached a place where if you aren't a PoC [View all]
you're excoriated for criticizing an elected official who is? That's really creepy. And it's not just this one instance.
I respect John Lewis enormously, but I think his attack on Bernie is misleading and disingenuous. It leaves someone who doesn't know better, with the impression that Bernie is lying about having been a civil rights activist in Chicago. I still respect Lewis and his enormous contribution and sacrifice, but I do not respect his attack on Bernie. One DUer said "John Lewis is a hero, not a saint. Even so, it's painful to see one's heroes engaging in this type of political innuendo.
Hillary employing someone who is the most iconic civil rights leader alive, to attack Bernie on his well documented civil rights activism, is so far beyond the pale.
Sadly, I'm confident that she'll sink much lower.
She is eroding our chances of winning in November. A party divided cannot win.
I've said I'll vote for her in the general. She makes that harder every passing hour