Barack Obama gets wildly partisan at a memorial for Congressman John Lewis.

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expressvPN.com slash Ben. Well, there's one general rule when somebody who is prominent dies,

and that is you kind of hold your fire, at least for, you know, the next 30 seconds. And typically,

you don't use their memorials, particularly if they are very large figures. You don't use

their memorials as sort of launching points for politics. This has been a rule that I would say Republicans have

been better at applying than Democrats in the recent past. Whenever a major Democrat dies or whenever

there's a bad event that results in death and the Democrat speaks at the memorial, it very often

turns into a political rally. So it's nothing new that that's what happened yesterday with regard to the memorial for Congressman John Lewis.

There's precedent for this.

When Senator Paul Walstone died in a plane crash back in the 2000s, the Democratic Party held a full out political rally stumping for progressive policy.

When there was a mass shooting in Arizona, that was the same shooting that injured

Gabby Giffords, the congresswoman, Barack Obama deployed himself to Arizona, where he proceeded

to rant and rave about gun control and talk about the evils of his Republican opponent. So it really

was nothing new what happened at the John Lewis Memorial. That doesn't make it any better. And it does

demonstrate the utter classlessness of a lot of people in our politics who tend to use death as a rationale for jumping into debate over politics, purely speaking. Now, listen, I understand the temptation. I'm on Twitter, too. I get it. And I can't say that I've been blameless in this, my entire Twitter history. I will say that over the past few years, one of the things I've learned is the day somebody dies, just shut it. It says that the day somebody dies, let it go. The day of a memorial, what you want to talk about is the stuff that unified about the person. You don't want to talk about the stuff that was not unifying about the person. There's plenty of time for that later. You can tell the difference in the class level of our various presidents over the course of history and kind of why

Donald Trump is president thanks to the reactions yesterday at the John Lewis Memorial. So there were

several presidents who spoke at the memorial for Congressman Lewis. Lewis, of course,

was a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr. He was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement.

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