No disrespect to Rep. John Lewis, but what a difference a month makes?

We were disappointed when Lewis, parroting Clinton who has always used us like a kleenex, said:

"Barack Obama is no Martin Luther King Jr. I knew Martin Luther King...He's no Robert Kennedy..he's not JFK. You need someone who is prepared to provide bold leadership."

Now

In recent days, there is a sense of movement and a sense of spirit. Something is happening in America, and people are prepared and ready to make that great leap... I've been very impressed with the campaign of Senator Obama. He's getting better and better every single day."

This reversal is a significant blow to the Clintons. He joins super-delegate Christine "Roz" Samuels in NJ.

Lewis' move now sets the pace for others to jump fence.several BC members are weighing buyer's remorse.

Can't get this song out of my head: "Something is happening here."
 

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Not that any of it affects Lewis' heroic role - I just like to be accurate.

The park service has this more complete account of the actual marches:

The Selma-to-Montgomery March for voting rights ended three weeks--and three events--that represented the political and emotional peak of the modern civil rights movement. On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. Two days later on March 9, Martin Luther King, Jr., led a "symbolic" march to the bridge. Then civil rights leaders sought court protection for a third, full-scale march from Selma to the state capitol in Montgomery. Federal District Court Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., weighed the right of mobility against the right to march and ruled in favor of the demonstrators. "The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups...," said Judge Johnson, "and these rights may be exercised by marching, even along public highways." On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong.

Even that account isn't entirely accurate regarding the interplay between the marchers and the federal courts (which, by the way, was a branch of the federal government that had moved to the side of the disenfranchised long before Johnson did).

The connection between the heroic people like John Lewis who were fighting on the ground in the civil rights movement and the federal judiciary is one reason among many why I am a one-issue voter this fall - the right to appoint federal court judges, including Supreme Court judges.