I was told by McCain during the last debate, when Rep. John Lewis remarks were mentioned, to “read what he said”. Good advice from the senator from Arizona. So I want to post Rep. Lewis’ comments and you can “read what he said” for yourself.

“What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history,” Lewis said in a statement issued today for Politico’s Arena forum. “Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”

Lewis didn’t accuse McCain of imitating Wallace, but suggested there were similarities.

“George Wallace never threw a bomb,” Lewis noted. “He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.”

Maybe it is just me but he never said that McCain was responsible for any of the stuff, but rather that some of the words were hateful.