August 14, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:Priceless
David Tell on Al Sharpton at the AFL-CIO beauty pageant:
Al Sharpton went over big in Chicago. He got off the best one-liner: He showed up 15 minutes late, explaining that he'd had a "non-union cab driver." Sharpton got the evening's only standing ovation, too--when he railed against the Bush Justice Department for unspecified investigations into union corruption. And so far as I can tell, Rev. Al's rousing reception in Chicago was par for the course. He has a genial, entirely un-politician-like stage presence, and Democratic audiences generally enjoy his company--in the moment, that is. When they answer pollsters' telephone calls, however, it's a different story. Sharpton barely rates a blip. My guess is that a lot of people vaguely sense they're supposed to disapprove of the man, but can't put their finger on why.Posted by Jane Galt at August 14, 2003 9:48 AM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksHere's why. Sharpton is a funny, genial, ingenuous man with a record of lurid demagoguery in the not-so-distant past. Also, he's an ignoramus--a totally unqualified candidate. What will President Sharpton do about rising health care costs, he is asked? "We need to have a constitutional amendment that is being proposed now under House Resolution 29 to make the quality health care of all citizens a constitutional right," he replies. This would be a stupid idea under any circumstances, but there's a more basic problem: House Resolution 29 is a bill to convert a temporary federal judgeship in Nebraska to permanent status. What will President Sharpton do to help workers who claim to have been harassed or fired for union-organizing activities, he is further asked? "If I were president, we'd have a federal law" banning such retribution, he promises, apparently unaware that just such a law has been on the books for decades.
No matter which side of the political spectrum you are on, Sharpton is an idiot. An entertaining idiot, but an idiot nonetheless.
also.. why is it illegal to fire communist infiltrators???
more bs from the "great" society
There's an excellent chance that Al Sharpton will run as an independent presidential candidate. What will be his excuse to justify breaking away from the Democrat Party? He will simply claim that it did not listen to pleas of the common people. Sharpton will not likely get more than 2% of the total vote---but that may be enough to destroy any opportunity for a Democrat upset of President Bush.
Al Sharpton's campaigh slogan? Easy:
"Every Circus Has To Have A Clown"
Al Sharpton is what Don King would have been if he had decided to make God and politics his racket instead of boxing, except that Sharpton's never killed anyone--directly, anyway.
Hmmm. Interesting that this union hoopdedoo is going on in Chicago right now.
Gray Davis went to Chicago last week to get money from the big unions to fight the recall, then on Saturday some of pro-recall people were beaten up by union thugs being "trained" to work against the recall.
Maybe the Grayboy brought a little more than money back from Chicago.
Believe me, just about everyone over here on the Evil Left is well aware of Sharpton's role in methodically smearing Tawana Brawley's accuser. If you doubt that, take a look at the comments on Shaprton from "Tapped" and "Daily Kos". I suspect people tend to applaud some of his lines at Democrtic get-togethers for the same reason that Republicans tend to applaud Limbaugh's lines at GOP get-togethers -- they regard him as a good comedian, without having any willingness to actually put the man in charge of a burnt-out match.
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