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   Even sadder than the politicized service was the applause from   
   attendees   
      
   Traditionally, funerals are supposed to serve at least three   
   purposes: honor the life of the deceased, comfort those who   
   mourn his passing and preach a message about eternity and the   
   brevity of life.   
      
   Tradition was discarded during John Lewis’ funeral last week in   
   Atlanta. Like the memorial service of the late Sen. Paul   
   Wellstone, Minnesota Democrat, in 2008, the Lewis service was a   
   political event that included veiled denunciations. There were   
   allegations of voter suppression by Republicans and a comparison   
   of President Trump by former President Obama to the late Alabama   
   governor and segregationist George Wallace.   
      
   On that last point, it was Wallace who stood in a schoolhouse   
   door 1963 in an effort to stop African-Americans from entering   
   the University of Alabama. Today’s Democrats have it reversed.   
   They are blocking poor kids from escaping failed public schools,   
   bowing to the desires of teachers’ unions that support and   
   contribute campaign money to Democratic politicians.   
      
   Mr. Obama also criticized Mr. Trump for sending federal agents   
   to Portland, Oregon, to help quell violence that had gone on for   
   more than 60 days.   
      
   Presumably, Mr. Obama would not have been opposed to President   
   Eisenhower’s decision in 1957 to send the 101st Airborne   
   Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black   
   students entering Central High School.   
      
   Someone should ask the former president if he approved of   
   President 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-Gov John Patterson said he could   
   not guarantee the peace.   
      
   Mr. Obama apparently ignored another historical event in which   
   federal forces were used to achieve a civil rights goal. On   
   Sept. 20, 1962, James Meredith attempted to register as a   
   student at the University of Mississippi. The entrance was   
   blocked and rioting erupted. Attorney General Robert Kennedy   
   sent 500 U.S. Marshals to the school. President Kennedy sent   
   military police, troops from the Mississippi National Guard and   
   even U.S. Border Patrol officials.   
      
   Is Mr. Obama OK with President Kennedy’s decision on June 11,   
   1963, to federalize Alabama National Guard troops to end then-   
   Gov. George Wallace’s blockade of African-Americans attempting   
   to enter the University of Alabama?   
      
   On March 20, 1965, President Johnson federalized the Alabama   
   National Guard to protect the civil rights March from Selma to   
   Montgomery of which John Lewis was a notable part. Mr. Obama   
   probably favors that decision. A reporter should ask him.   
      
   Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas all had governors at the time   
   who were Democrats and segregationists and yet today’s Democrats   
   claim Mr. Trump is a racist.   
      
   In his “eulogy,” Mr. Obama also mentioned mail-in ballots, the   
   latest effort by Democrats (early voting and no required   
   identification are other efforts) that many believe could open   
   the door to voter fraud.   
      
   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.   
      
   Democrats and their media allies consistently ignore the fact   
   that Jim Crow Laws, the Ku Klux Klan and other immoralities were   
   all led by Southern Democrats.   
      
   John Lewis’ legacy and his brave fight for civil rights will   
   always remain untarnished. But 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 Mr.   
   Trump beat Hillary Clinton, though that would likely have   
   required the infiltration of every precinct and voting machine   
   in America, something not even Lewis claimed was possible.   
      
   What was even sadder than the politicized funeral service was   
   the applause from attendees, who apparently believe every word   
   that comes from Mr. Obama’s mouth, though none of this kind of   
   talk improves a single life. It makes one wonder why so many   
   African-Americans continue to be loyal to the Democratic Party.   
      
   • Cal Thomas, a nationally syndicated columnist, is the author   
   of “America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires, Superpowers   
   and the United States” (HarperCollins/Zondervan, January 2020.   
      
   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/3/barack-obama-   
   turned-john-lewis-funeral-into-an-ant/   
            
      
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