Reply #125: This isn't about me, this is about the comment you made in post 9.

[The Backlash Cometh]

Let me refresh your memory:

'I hate to tell Ted this but even John Lewis said JFK's civil rights bill was "too little too late."'

You brought the information up and on this board, that means it is subject to the scalpel. Two things about your comments, first, that the "even" suggests that John Lewis was agreeing with someone. Who? Obviously you're a Hillary shill, so your motives for writing was to lend support to Hillary's slight of JFK regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We've covered that one amply. You don't want to go there because you feel it's going off tangent, even though the word, "even," reveals your true purpose in writing. (You really should rethink that "off tangent" whinge of yours, because I sincerely believe it's the germ of this entire argument.)

Second, is John Lewis. Should Ted Kennedy really be concerned about what John Lewis thinks, ASSUMING, John Lewis feels the same way today, that he did in 1963. I covered that amply. And here was my response:

You brought up statements he made at the height of his militant-activist years in 1963 when tough-talking was part of his method. And if he was critical of Kennedy, he would have been critical of LBJ too, because "too little, too late" would have applied to LBJ as well, in the sequence of time.

It's not relevant to the CURRENT discussion, because his statement was made two months before Kennedy's assassination and every indication is that Lewis recognizes today that he was more impatient than the others back then, in finding a diplomatic way through the process.

Even if he wasn't respectful of Kennedy, it still wouldn't matter. If that were true, it would say more about Lewis's lack of character, than it would Kennedy because Kennedy's papers and library will give you more than ample evidence of just how much JFK was involved with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

One man's opinion against a sea of well-documented history.

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In sum, I don't think Lewis would be as harsh today as you portray him to be. The facts just don't add up in your favor.