Obama will be speaking Wednesday for the first time as commander in chief at the annual convention of the National Action Network and standing with its founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton - whom the President largely ignored before his 2008 election.Hmmm... Sharpton, Sharpton...
"He may not need the base in 2012, but he doesn't want to take any chances. He doesn't want to look back and say 'If only I had met with Al Sharpton.'"
...that sounds so familiar...
Sharpton took up Brawley's cause and defended her refusal to cooperate with prosecutors, saying that asking her to meet with New York's attorney general would be like "asking someone who watched someone killed in the gas chamber to sit down with Mr. Hitler."Meanwhile... in other compassionate, intellectual left news...
The case fizzled when a security guard for Brawley's lawyers testified that the lawyers and Sharpton knew Brawley was lying.
"André Forbes, the Liberal candidate in Manicouagan, is reported in various newspaper and magazine articles calling aboriginal Canadians 'featherheads' and has suggested that governments recognized the rights of natives over white people."
"The Liberal Leader described himself as 'shocked' by the remarks."
