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Title: Sharpton Raps Obama
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URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/seven/0429200 ... sharpton_raps_obama_108577.htm
Published: Apr 29, 2008
Author: CHUCK BENNETT and KAVITA MOKHA
Post Date: 2008-04-29 10:25:36 by christine
Keywords: None
Views: 159
Comments: 8

April 29, 2008 -- Barack Obama made a call for nonviolence in the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict - infuriating the Rev. Al Sharpton, who accused the presidential candidate of trying to "grandstand in front of white people," sources told The Post.

During what a source described as a "heated" phone call yesterday, Sharpton told Obama he was disappointed with the Illinois senator's words on Friday, when Obama said "resorting to violence to express displeasure" was "completely unacceptable and counterproductive."

"[Obama] issues this statement and not a single rock had been thrown," said a source. "How does the candidate of change ask people to accept a verdict that is unjust?"

The source said Sharpton had hoped Obama would "side with the Bell family" and not use it as an "opportunity to grandstand in front of white people."

An Obama spokesman described the conversation as a chance to "hear [Sharpton's] views and to get his perspective."

Sharpton ratcheted up the pressure on federal prosecutors yesterday by bringing Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to Kalua, the Queens strip club where the Nov. 25, 2006 shooting took place.

"We are going to put together a federal strategy on how to deal with the case," Conyers said.

Also yesterday, Queens Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman, who rendered the not-guilty verdict, refused to comment on his decision.

"He said what he had to say on the bench," his law clerk said.


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Grandstanding in front of white people? What a stupid accusation by Sharpton.

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#1. To: christine (#0)

Grandstanding in front of white people?

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FOH  posted on  2008-04-29   10:28:19 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: christine (#0)

The source said Sharpton had hoped Obama would "side with the Bell family" and not use it as an "opportunity to grandstand in front of white people."

These folks never fail to amuse.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2008-04-29   10:29:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)

"[Obama] issues this statement and not a single rock had been thrown," said a source. "How does the candidate of change ask people to accept a verdict that is unjust?"

Can you dig it?


FOH  posted on  2008-04-29   10:32:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: christine (#0)

Grandstanding in front of white people? What a stupid accusation by Sharpton.

Why rob banks?

The old baboon by the light of the moon was combing his auburn hair.

Tauzero  posted on  2008-04-29   10:48:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: christine (#0)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2008-04-29   11:05:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: ghostdogtxn (#5)

blogs.abcnews.com/politic...8/04/gingrich-wright.html

Gingrich: Wright May Be Deliberately Trying to Hurt Obama

April 29, 2008 7:58 AM

ABC News' Nitya Venkataraman Reports: In a Tuesday appearance on Good Morning America, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., suggested that controversial pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright is angry with parishioner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and may be deliberately trying to hurt his presidential bid.

Saying that Wright "went out of his way to weaken Obama" during Monday's address at the National Press Club, Gingrich told Barbara Walters "I think Reverend Wright has a greater interest in his self-importance."

WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE!

Gingrich described Obama former pastor as "hard-line anti-American", and said "if Rev. Wright continues to talk that the burden that Sen. Obama carries becomes bigger and bigger. "

Gingrich described Obama's challenges as "two-fold", citing "left-wing relationships" calling the Illinois senator "disingenuous" about them.

Gingrich also referenced complications in the path to the Democratic nomination via Michigan and Florida. (Both states were stripped of convention delegates for holding their primaries too early in the 2008 process.)

"I don't see how they're going to have a convention and not have the fourth biggest state in the country represented," Gingrich told Walters.

Gingrich said "at the rate things are going" come November the winner might "not necessarily" be a Democrat.

"McCain could be the one Republican who could win the election this year," Gingrich said in a live interview with Barbara Walters.

Gingrich pushed back on notions of his own re-entry into the presidential candidate pool,

"That's an alternative history we'll have to come back and talk about some day," Gingrich said.

Gingrich appeared on Good Morning America to promote his new book "Days of Infamy", the former House Speaker's second historical novel about Pearl Harbor. Gingrich said he wrote the book to "draw more Americans into the Pacific" for a new look at the region and learn "the very tough lessons of history" embedded there.

TwentyTwelve  posted on  2008-04-29   11:07:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: TwentyTwelve (#6)

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡

ghostdogtxn  posted on  2008-04-29   11:29:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: ghostdogtxn, Arete (#7) (Edited)

oops. posted my reply to the wrong thread. ignore this.

christine  posted on  2008-04-29   12:23:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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