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Title: Sharpton a key adviser to Obama on Ferguson
Source: NY Post
URL Source: http://nypost.com/2014/08/22/sharpt ... -advisor-to-obama-on-ferguson/
Published: Aug 22, 2014
Author: Pat Bailey
Post Date: 2014-08-22 13:04:42 by scrapper2
Keywords: Obama+Sharpton+ Ferguson, Sharpton=Obama
Views: 51
Comments: 10

The Rev. Al Sharpton is the White House’s man on the ground in Ferguson.

The 59-year-old Sharpton has become a key adviser to President Obama on race issues, according to Politico, and is acting as his liaison in the racially charged St. Louis suburb, where the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown led to days of riots.

Sharpton arrived at the protest site in Ferguson three days after the shooting and quickly began briefing the White House.

“There’s a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down,” a White House official told Politico. “He gets it, and he’s got credibility in the community that nobody else has got. There’s really no one else out there who does what he does.”

While in Ferguson, Sharpton met with the Brown family and reported back directly to Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s closest aides.

Sharpton was directed to find out specific information, including what the Brown family wanted from the White House, Politico reports.

The veteran activist, who is also leading Saturday’s march on Staten Island against alleged police brutality in New York, even suggested Jarrett turn up the heat on Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, and appoint a special prosecutor to replace St. Louis prosecutor Bob McCulloch in the Brown case.

“We’re not going to get a fair investigation with that guy, he’s got to go,” Sharpton told Jarrett, according to one person familiar with the exchange.

A spokeswoman for Jarrett, who has been in contact with Nixon, declined to say if she had passed along Sharpton’s demand.

Sharpton said he doesn’t plan to wait forever and plans “a series of nonviolent protests to get McCullough out of the case within the next few weeks, when everything cools down a bit.”

Politico interviewer Glenn Thrust didn’t gloss over Sharpton’s earlier days, when he was convicted of defaming a white upstate prosecutor whom he falsely accused of raping black teenager Tawana Brawley.

Or when Sharpton inflamed the tense situation in New York City after the 1991 Crown Heights riots by railing against Jewish “diamond merchants.”

But that troubling history — and his much-mocked stint as an FBI informer in the 1980s — hasn’t deterred the White House.

In the interview, Sharpton made it clear that he was modeling his career on that of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and had now surpassed his one-time mentor.

“I never aspired to the local political fiefdom thing that a lot of people ascribed me to,” Sharpton said. “I saw myself as a guy who learned from Jesse Jackson how to do national civil rights.

“I wasn’t really interested in who was going to be the next district leader in Brooklyn. My ambitions were always a lot bigger than what my critics thought my ability was.”

He went on to list the lessons he learned from Jackson: “The Saturday rallies … get your own TV show … have a national organization” — and make friends with a president.

“He was Clinton’s guy,” Sharpton declared bluntly, “and I’m with Obama.”

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"The 59-year-old Sharpton has become a key adviser to President Obama on race issues, according to Politico, and is acting as his liaison in the racially charged St. Louis suburb, where the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown led to days of riots."

Al Sharpton - the gift that keeps on giving - as though Obama's polls aren't low enough as it is, the IdiotInChief ties his wagon to Bobble Head Al, "veteran activist." LOL! I love it!

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#1. To: Jethro Tull, randge, Lod (#0)

Ping!

scrapper2  posted on  2014-08-22   13:05:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: scrapper2 (#1)

The headline tells me everything - one bobblehead advising another.

Perfect.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2014-08-22   13:17:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: scrapper2 (#0)

Officer Wilson is going down for the count, he should seek political asylum with Edward Snowden in Moscow.

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“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group."
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X-15  posted on  2014-08-22   13:21:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: scrapper2 (#0)

Such insects have a pipeline to the top which is populated by other bolshevik insects. When this admin trundles off into oblivion, they'll have worn out whatever welcome they have with the public.

The NY Post reporter significantly fails to mention that Gov. Nixon has already publically taken the replacement of prosecutor Bob McCulloch off the table. That news is already two days old but is pertinent to point raised in the article.

"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan

randge  posted on  2014-08-22   13:40:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: scrapper2, 4 (#0)

"The 59-year-old Sharpton has become a key adviser to President Obama on race issues, according to Politico, and is acting as his liaison in the racially charged St. Louis suburb, where the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown led to days of riots."

Knowing his background as I do I'm truly lost for words.

I'll never, ever understand how this fool intimidates White folks.

The phrase for the day is, "undocumented shoppers."

Jethro Tull  posted on  2014-08-22   13:55:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: randge, 4 (#4)

The NY Post reporter significantly fails to mention that Gov. Nixon has already publically taken the replacement of prosecutor Bob McCulloch off the table

And the politics behind Nixon's keeping McCulloch in place is that he (McCulloch) will become the fall guy should the GJ return a no bill verdict. If Nixon replaced him with his own selection, and that person failed to get an indictment, it would reflect directly on Nixon.

Evade, avoid, duck and weave..politicians are truly evil scumbags.

The phrase for the day is, "undocumented shoppers."

Jethro Tull  posted on  2014-08-22   14:02:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Jethro Tull (#6)

Thanks for the analysis - it makes perfect sense.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2014-08-22   14:14:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Jethro Tull, Tawana, 4 (#6)

lying skank finally began paying, bobblehead still in denial -

www.washingtontimes.com/n...ape-begins-defamation-pa/

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2014-08-22   15:34:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: X-15 (#3)

Officer Wilson is going down for the count, he should seek political asylum with Edward Snowden in Moscow

He won't even be charged.

"Have Brain, Will Travel

Turtle  posted on  2014-08-22   15:45:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Jethro Tull (#6)

And the politics behind Nixon's keeping McCulloch in place is that he (McCulloch) will become the fall guy should the GJ return a no bill verdict. If Nixon replaced him with his own selection, and that person failed to get an indictment, it would reflect directly on Nixon.

Thanks for squaring the Machiavellian circle, Jethro.

I can see that you've been around some to see the evil evasions, ducking and weaving our elected and appointed scumbags are experts at.

"If ignorance is truly bliss, then why do so many Americans need Prozac?" - Dave McGowan

randge  posted on  2014-08-22   16:14:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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