Sharpton Joins Sheehan (THUMBS DOWN!!!)

[BamaLefty]

That's the way to eliminate our majority right there! :eyes:

[Walt Starr]

1. Oh bull shit! Sharpton has as much right as anybody else to be there.

and in the primaries, Sharpton made more sense than any other Democratic candidate bar none.

[MoonRiver]

10. I agree. Sharpton goes where none (of our congressional whimp Dems)

dare to tread. If, say, someone like Kerry were standing by Sheehan, Sharpton might not feel the need to be there. But as we all know, mums the word in Camp Kerry regarding Camp Casey.

[saracat]

32. That is just silly . Kerry and Kennedy among others HAVE taken a stand.

Kennedy & Kerry Pressure Bush To Meet Cindy
The momentum is building on George Bush to stop hiding from this courageous woman, and meet with Cindy Sheehan. Senator Allen encouraged it almost immediately, several members of the House quickly followed up with a letter to the President.

Today, The Boston Herald reports that “Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday each threw their support behind Cindy Sheehan, who has been camped outside Bush's Crawford, Texas, home since Saturday, vowing not to leave until the president meets with her about the war. Sheehan's 24-year-old Marine son, Casey, was killed five days after he arrived in Iraq.

``The president has not leveled with our troops and the American people,'' Kennedy said. ``I admire Cindy Sheehan for her courage and determination to make the president answer to her.''

Kerry spokeswoman April Boyd said: ``Senator Kerry understands the demands on Bush's schedule but hopes he will take time to meet with Mrs. Sheehan.''

Maybe if Bush does decide to change course and meet with Cindy, he’ll finally have a mistake he can admit at his next press conference.

LINKS:
http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=1...

[mattclearing]

35. Maybe Kerry should have thought of this before his IWR vote.

He's the last person that should be grandstanding on the peace issue.

[saracat]

39. You obviously don't understand the IWR vote.

The primaries are over . Give it up.

[MoonRiver]

46. Kerry is already campaigning for the 2008 primary.

You know it.

[mattclearing]

That's a convincing argument.

And as far as Kerry's concerned, the primaries have just begun, or have you not noticed?

I like John Kerry, but his political calculation regarding the IWR is unforgivable.

And I've actually read the IWR. Have you?

[Toots]

62. If you have read them what do they say about letting UN make the decision?

I was under the distinct impression that the UN was to make the final decision and not the US. Tell us what the IWR had to say about that matter and also about coming back to Congress every thirty days for continued approval?

[mattclearing]

65. Look for yourself.

http://www.yourcongress.com/ViewArticle.asp?article_id=2686

[wtmusic]

66. You're right

it authorizes action only through UNSC resolutions. Kerry's not the villain here.

[mattclearing]

68. No, seriously. Read it.

It justifies it with UN action, but ultimately gives the authority to the President, regardless.

[nosmokes]

15. i'd just like to echo walt's sentiments here. n/t

[RandomKoolzip]

16. Wasn't he getting funding from some RW foundation during the primaries?

I seem to remember reading a thread on DU about Sharpton accepting money from groups on the right RIGHT before he launched an attack on Dean for not having enough black people on his campaign staff.

Maybe my memory's a bit iffy. :shrug:

[WilliamPitt]

21. "I seem to remember reading a thread on DU about..."

Not always the best source of unbiased data, especially during the primaries.

[RandomKoolzip]

28. I guess not.

Still, I don't trust Sharpton and I found his attacks on Dean unnecessary and counter-productive. But that's just me.

[NYCGirl]

36. You mean this?

Full story at:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0405,barrett,50745,1.html

Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.

Though Stone and Sharpton have tried to reduce their alliance to a curiosity, suggesting that all they do is talk occasionally, a Voice investigation has documented an extraordinary array of connections. Stone played a pivotal role in putting together Sharpton's pending application for federal matching funds, getting dollars in critical states from family members and political allies at odds with everything Sharpton represents. He's also helped stack the campaign with a half-dozen incongruous top aides who've worked for him in prior campaigns. He's even boasted about engineering six-figure loans to Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) and allowing Sharpton to use his credit card to cover thousands in NAN costs—neither of which he could legally do for the campaign. In a wide-ranging Voice interview Sunday, Stone confirmed his matching-fund and staffing roles, but refused to comment on the NAN subsidies.

[RandomKoolzip]

41. Yeah, that's it.....

I couldn't trust the guy after reading that....especially NOW, knowing that Stone was most likely behind "Rathergate."


But if he can lend Cindy some more publicity, more power to 'im, I suppose.

[Roy]

52. that makes Sharpton all the more 'Da Man'

If he is shred enough to use right wing money to deliver the smack down he landed on Bush in the primaries, I say he did good.

By the way, his smack downs along with Deans' stand was probably the spring board Liberals to start acting like Liberals again.

[theHandpuppet]

27. I agree with you Walt

Good on Rev Al! Walking the walk where others are afraid to be seen.

[Touchdown]

2. This aughta be good.

:popcorn:

[fooj]

31. Love your sense of humor!

Peace.

[ulysses]

3. yup.

God knows we can't have an outspoken black preacher show his face anywhere.

[Captain Hilts]

4. He's a charlaton. Best he stay away. But I loved his DNC speech (nt)

[jayfish]

20. Please Provide Some Examples Of Said Charlatanism. -NT-

Jay

[avitali]

34. How about that whole Tawana Brawley...

...situation that put Sharpton in the spotlight. That was all fabricated, as was his outrage. He lost my credibility from the get-go.

[avitali]

38. Was that a Freudian slip...

...or not enough coffee? :) I meant to say that Sharpton lost his credibility from the get-go. The Freepers will go to town on this, if he has joined Mrs. Sheehan in "the cause."

[jayfish]

60. I'm Wondering If You Feel That Prosecutes Who Advocate...

for the government are considered to have lost all credibility when they lose a case? Who was the Tawana Brawley case fabricated by? Was it Al Sharpton? How long ago did this happen again? Lets say Al was totally in the wrong on this; is no person reformable in this world or should everyone carry a scarlet letter for every wrong they have done in perpetuity? And finally, who cares what Freepers think about any Democrat. Unless he/she is a turncoat they hate all Dems anyway.

Jay

[ima_sinnic]

wtf are you taling about?

jeez, unbelievable

[KG]

5. could have been worse! at least he wasn't wearing tye-dye!

nominated for the stupidest post of the week.

[Walt Starr]

8. I second the nomination n/t

[jonnyblitz]

13. i add a third nominiation for stupidest post of the week.!!

:hi:

[katinmn]

23. Fourth

:thumbsdown:

[Lochloosa]

33. Fifth

"we'll ride this donkey as far as it will take us"

[lateo]

48. And banging a drum...

:)

[RevCheesehead]

6. Call me silly,

but I think it's cause for celebration if ANYONE joins Cindy. Isn't that our goal? :shrug:

[MadeinOhio]

7. I guess I don't see the big deal...

Jesse Jackson and other black leaders have joined her as well, and are all getting involved after touring the coast about the Jim Crow voting laws.

Example: Georgia's new laws for voter ID are unconstitutional, destroy the rights of georgia's citizens to have fair treatment. He is on a roll lately.

[mtnsnake]

9. Kudos to Sharpton! Where the hell are the rest of the fucking Dems?

[shaniqua6392]

19. They are somewhere searching for their spines!!!

Maybe we should tell the Dem party we are going to start up a new party and leave those cowards behind. Not a peep out of those spineless wimps regarding Cindy or this bullsh** war. I am so disgusted I do not even know who to vote for anymore. They all suck.

[WilliamPitt]

11. How dare a Democrat show up down there

The Stormfront Nazis are going down to join the protest. Seems they don't like Bush's "war for Israel," and want to join with Camp Casey. Mayhap Al can dissuade them.

[jonnyblitz]

12. WRONG!!

SHARTON THUMBS UP!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[txaslftist]

14. Sharpton ain't much loved in the South.

Neither are homosexials, Joos, Paygins, Lefties, Commies, Kathlicks, or Frenchies.

So what?

No one's given much of a damn what anyone in Mississippi thought since reconstruction.

[Pithy Cherub]

17. Sharpton with sheehan - two Thumbs UP - WAY UP!

Good Grief! :eyes:

[jmm]

18. Sheehan isn't giving it a thumbs down.

This protest was started in the memory of her son and if she sees fit to welcome him with open arms and feels his presence helps then nobody ought to be complaining. Others have been asked to leave before so she could've asked him not to come or made him leave if she wanted to.

[KyndCulture]

22. Rev. Al can't lead a prayer for fallen soldiers?

but it's okee dokee for the Tee Vee Prez, Lois Lane and King Aragorn to rock her world...


pulease...get a grip. Rev. Sharpton had as much right to pay his respects to Cindy as you or I do....I call total bullshit on this post.

[KG]

24. so, you are trying to say people will suddenly become pro-war

cause Al showed up to stand by her? is that what you're trying to say?

i'd be really interested in hearing your line of reasoning on this.

actually, i'm not.

[BamaLefty]

29. No

I'm saying that Sharpton isn't very well liked (from what I can tell) and that we don't need to bring such polarizing figures to a very good cause such as Cindy's. :)

[KG]

37. isn't well liked by whom?

i mean, other than you.

[BamaLefty]

44. Untrue.

I never said I didn't like him. I said that he would probably viewed unfavorably by America... which is what counts.

Y'know, the same thing that Howard Dean faces. I love the guy! But America is a little uneasy about him.

Don't think that I don't like Sharpton. I don't want Terry McAuliffe at Camp Casey either. I don't want this to be a R vs D deal. It shouldn't be in my opinion . . .

[KG]

49. so, you contend that americas opinion of the war will be guided

by who's for it or against it? what a silly notion.

[Touchdown]

55. So your buying into the Sharpton is Emanuel Goldstein meme.

Boy, those Republicans shure know how to tell us what to think.:eyes:

[Eloriel]

43. Clue: ANYone the RW doesn't like is "polarizing" by definition

Don't you get it? Civil rights leaders are ESPECIALLY "polarizing." People who speak the truth about anything are "polarizing."

You don't think Cindy Sheehan is "polarizing"? Look again. There's a whole "counter movement" (PR blitz) growing up to counter her. The RW just hasn't called Sheehan that (yet?), since traitor and demoralizing for our troops, etc., are more potent criticisms.

Please drop the RW talking points. It's the RW that doesn't like Sharpton, says he's a publicity hound (which they also say about Jesse Jackson), etc., etc., etc.

[cynatnite]

25. I love Al Sharpton

That man will always have my respect and admiration.

[BamaLefty]

26. I Like Sharpton

But America doesn't! That is my point.

[Binka]

70. Been Talking To Miss America Again All 300 Million Folks?

And they told you they didn't like Al? In case you missed the memo you don't have a FUCKING POINT. The "myths" about the unpopularity of The Great Reverend Albert Sharpton are as fecking false as the "myths" that Bush is a well loved and admired leader. Get it now? Drop your disingenuous and bullshit meme. It is an old tired canard and we here at DU are fucking sick to death of it.

Shit it appears O'Rielly is more popular with some folks on DU than we realized. Where else would they dig up this absolute shit?
Fuckwittages!

This is the GasBag Stupidest Post Of The Month!

[LynneSin]

30. I adore Al Sharpton - glad he's there

He was one of the best speakers at the Democratic Convention. Ok, sometimes the guy can be a little bit flaky but he's still 2 thumbs up in my book!

[cynatnite]

54. He was awesome in the debates!

He knew he didn't have a chance of winning so he could say what he wanted and he hit the mark every time. Al Sharpton rocks!

[Dinger]

40. I Like Sharpton

He cares, it's that simple. He could give a shit if this affects him negatively or not. I will never, never forget his speech at the Democratic Convention. I don't pretend to know Sharpton's motives, and I have not always cared for some of the things he's done, but for me, I like Sharpton, and unless I miss my guess, Cindy appreciated him being there.

[Lilith Velkor]

42. More Sharpton bashing (MIDDLE FINGERS UP!!!)

We have no majority because not enough Dems have the ovaries to make a stand! :asshole:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

45. The 21st Century Jesse Jackson

That's our Reverend Al, defaulter on judgments, defamer of innocent police officers, tax evader, deadbeat Empire State Building tenant (he was evicted), former FBI informant, and now, thanks to the short memories of some, a spokesman for what?

Anyone with half a brain would turn Sharpton away from anything faintly respectable. He's nothing but a clown and a fool, a man who betrayed his own people while ratting them out to the FBI, and does the name Tawanna Brawley mean anything to anyone these days?

Sharpton's fun to watch, a first-rate orator and actor, but, as a human being - to call him a "politician" is to joke - he utterly fails, bringing his special tinge of corruption to everything he encounters.

[BamaLefty]

47. Now We're Talking. . .

And we want this man to fight with Cindy? Newp, not me.

[WillyT]

53. Just Goes To Show That Cindy's A Better Person Than Both Y'All !!!

Apparently, Sharpton too!!!

Some people here are 'left', like David Horowitz and Christopher Hitchens are 'left'!!!

Newt...er I mean, newp, not me.

:wtf:

[OldLeftieLawyer]

61. Before you go slinging specious characterizations,

you might want to do your homework on the Reverend Al Sharpton.

No one is "better" than anyone else, and, let's get real here - it's a Public Relations campaign, what Cindy Sheehan is doing, and it needs to be managed intelligently. I'd no more advocate bringing in Zell Miller - as a "good" person - than I support the publicized visit of the Reverend Al.

Now, go learn about Sharpton's life and history, and see what you think then.

[CitrusLib]

50. He's come a long way, baby.

Despised the man in the 80's and 90's, but DAMN he made for a fun primary season (at least early on). He was so freakin' funny and refreshing in his willingness to call it like he saw it.

Actually, he turned me around during an NPR interview he did. They were doing a series of interviews with all the candidates and that one made me sit up and tune in to every word coming out of his mouth.

[mmonk]

51. Some still nervous of what

the rightwing says? I think it's time for courage.

[DemonFighterLives]

56. Sharpton rocks

The righties are already calling Cindy every name in the book. Adding a powerful lefty can only be a good thing. Al could take the whole Vast Right Wing down with his words. "They" hate him badly, but it may lighten the attacks on Cindy.

[seabeyond]

57. you know what, we have to stand with sharpton. that is who we are

to deny sharpton would be not being a democrat. exactly what everyone is bitching about. look what cindy says, sharpton says, the black community says, i say, conservatives are even saying, vets are saying, canada, france, germany, russia.....people of egland, fuckin iraqi's and the troops are saying.

dont make this so little, and sharpton isnt a problem, but because part of the healing, the whole, collectively.

[seabeyond]

58. hollywood, politicians, time for you to join the group too....... i am

seeing. hurricane and bush has created in disaster, bad. end of vacation, time to get back to work, everyone. lets start wrapping this up, for christmas.

[meganmonkey]

59. Do you see any irony in what you are saying?

Why do you think we qualify as the majority? Because all sorts of people are against this war. Are you going to Crawford to screen all the guests? Have them sign loyalty oaths to make sure they won't say or do or wear the wrong thing?

[Generic Other]

63. Sharpton (THUMBS UP!!!) OP (THUMBS DOWN!!!)

sad.

[G_j]

64. Unlike other Reps Sharpton has been attending

anti-war rallies all along, and GOOD for him!

[sundog]

67. you're absolutely right, we should do things to appease the majority

while we're at it, why don't we backpedal the struggle for marriage equality... after all, equal rights really don't play well with the masses...

and then after that we can say this war isn't really that bad after all & reach a happy compromise... we don't really want to offend anyone do we? :eyes:

give them an inch they take a yard, give them a yard they take a mile

i like al

[Media_Lies_Daily]

69. You're welcome to your opinion, but I don't think many DUers agree.

[Moderator]

71. Locking...

This is flamebait.