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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Now Sharpton jumping on the bandwagon...Hillary has to be smiling today

After the Rev. Wright fiasco yesterday, Obama doesn't need more critism but Rev. Sharton is piling on. From the NY Post:

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."
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Read here:http://www.nypost.com/seven/04292008/news/regionalnews/sharpton_raps_obama_108577.htm

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