tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post2273434775682964514..comments2024-03-28T16:58:17.705-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Much of John Lewis' District is Pretty Nice, ActuallyGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-25814820344903768972017-01-16T20:38:54.011-05:002017-01-16T20:38:54.011-05:00What does it say about the alleged gentlemanliness...<i>What does it say about the alleged gentlemanliness of a man who so thoroughly abuses that status with his behavior?</i><br /><br />That he's a Congressman, I suppose. Perhaps there are exceptions.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-26376486599918595682017-01-16T19:35:34.699-05:002017-01-16T19:35:34.699-05:00Like all Congressmen, the Honorable John Lewis is ...<i>Like all Congressmen, the Honorable John Lewis is a gentleman by custom and tradition....</i><br /><br />What does it say about the alleged gentlemanliness of a man who so thoroughly abuses that status with his behavior?<br /><br />What does it say about the gentlemanliness of a man and his supporters who hold himself (my tortured grammar not withstanding) above reproach concerning his recent and current behavior solely on the basis of those bygone times?<br /><br />And as you pointed out, the improvements in Georgia's 5th district are almost exclusively local- and state-driven; Lewis had very little to do with it. Trump's response is entirely legitimate: what has Lewis actually done lately? Besides being obstructionist, I add.<br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-80870281167239646362017-01-16T17:29:28.394-05:002017-01-16T17:29:28.394-05:00That's a different criticism from the one sugg...That's a different criticism from the one suggesting his performance as Congressman has neglected his district. I don't doubt that there are fair criticisms of Lewis, who has a habit of saying some pretty nasty things that are unfair himself. <br /><br />Like all Congressmen, the Honorable John Lewis is a gentleman by custom and tradition -- <i>ex officio</i>, as it were. That's often the only way in which Congressmen are gentlemen, or 'honorable' for that matter. But as you say, this man did good things once.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-40346091329313612882017-01-16T16:10:23.958-05:002017-01-16T16:10:23.958-05:00What gentleman? I thought this post was about Cong...What gentleman? I thought this post was about Congressman John Lewis.<br /><br />What Lewis is carefully omitting in his remarks about the coming Trump presidency is that his beatings and arrests and those of others of the time were ordered by Democrats—the leadership, for instance, of states like Mississippi where <i>Bloody Sunday</i> occurred. What Lewis is carefully forgetting is his racist slur that Tea Partiers peacefully, if loudly, protesting the passage of Obamacare on the steps of the Capital Building shortly after passage were themselves racist. What Lewis is choosing not to acknowledge is that since that day he has done his best to obstruct whatever Republicans have tried to accomplish, not because he disagreed with the programs and bills being debated, but because they were Republican programs and bills rather than Democratic.<br /><br />Lewis richly deserves his legacy, perhaps (I lived through those times, and I recall the fundamental dishonesty of SNCC). All he's doing now, though, is badly abusing and cheapening that legacy with his selective remembering, his recent behavior, and his latest behavior. <br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.com