Tell it all Brother Sharpton, tell it all. Shapton knocks Bush for exploiting issues & religious feelings , etc. - "Brother Sharpton, You Da Man!"
Saturday afternoon at the DNC Southern Caucus meeting in Atlanta I passed Al Sharpton in the hallway and paused to introduce myself.
We shook hands and exchanged pleasantries. I told him it was always good to have him here in Georgia, that he did us proud by his performance at the Democratic National Convention, and to keep up the good work. He said thanks and that he really appreciated my telling him so.
As I turned to leave, I put my right hand high in the air, fingers extended, and said "Brother Sharpton, you Da Man!" He grinned from ear to ear, and gave me a vigorous and loud high five.
And keep up the good work he did.
According to today's ajc, the following morning Sharpton gave a sermon at Atlanta's Butler Street CME Church about Jesus forgiving a woman accused of adultery. After delivering the sermon, Sharpton said: "I think George Bush manipulated a lot of religious feelings about marriage when the president has little or nothing to do with marriage."
According to the ajc:
Sharpton said Bush also used the gay marriage issue to draw attention from charges that he botched the Iraq war and was ignoring domestic problems.
"The president cannot order what marriage is for men or women," Sharpton said. He said the 2004 election "was not the place" for a debate on moral issues.
"It was the place for a debate on Iraq, he's in charge of the military; health care, he's in charge of that; on Social Security, he's in charge of that," Sharpton said. "But we should not relinquish the morality of the church to the office of president. He has nothing to do with that."
Sharpton, who lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, said he remains committed to electing Democratic candidates. But the New York Democrat, who just ended a two-day meeting in Atlanta with black members of the Democratic National Committee, warned that party leaders cannot afford to ignore black people when choosing future leaders.
"You know in Georgia I got more votes than Howard Dean, who is running for chair," said Sharpton, who is not among the seven announced candidates for the post. Wellington Webb, 63, a former Colorado legislator and three-term Denver mayor, is the only African-American in the race so far.
Sharpton, who spoke to the Southern Black Caucus, said he believes black people may drift further from the Democrats unless leaders reward black party members with key posts. "We cannot be taken for granted, and we cannot been seen as automatically being there when others who abandon the party are rewarded and we are not," he said.
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Tell it all Brother Sharpton, tell it all, and we Democrats had better listen.
We shook hands and exchanged pleasantries. I told him it was always good to have him here in Georgia, that he did us proud by his performance at the Democratic National Convention, and to keep up the good work. He said thanks and that he really appreciated my telling him so.
As I turned to leave, I put my right hand high in the air, fingers extended, and said "Brother Sharpton, you Da Man!" He grinned from ear to ear, and gave me a vigorous and loud high five.
And keep up the good work he did.
According to today's ajc, the following morning Sharpton gave a sermon at Atlanta's Butler Street CME Church about Jesus forgiving a woman accused of adultery. After delivering the sermon, Sharpton said: "I think George Bush manipulated a lot of religious feelings about marriage when the president has little or nothing to do with marriage."
According to the ajc:
Sharpton said Bush also used the gay marriage issue to draw attention from charges that he botched the Iraq war and was ignoring domestic problems.
"The president cannot order what marriage is for men or women," Sharpton said. He said the 2004 election "was not the place" for a debate on moral issues.
"It was the place for a debate on Iraq, he's in charge of the military; health care, he's in charge of that; on Social Security, he's in charge of that," Sharpton said. "But we should not relinquish the morality of the church to the office of president. He has nothing to do with that."
Sharpton, who lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, said he remains committed to electing Democratic candidates. But the New York Democrat, who just ended a two-day meeting in Atlanta with black members of the Democratic National Committee, warned that party leaders cannot afford to ignore black people when choosing future leaders.
"You know in Georgia I got more votes than Howard Dean, who is running for chair," said Sharpton, who is not among the seven announced candidates for the post. Wellington Webb, 63, a former Colorado legislator and three-term Denver mayor, is the only African-American in the race so far.
Sharpton, who spoke to the Southern Black Caucus, said he believes black people may drift further from the Democrats unless leaders reward black party members with key posts. "We cannot be taken for granted, and we cannot been seen as automatically being there when others who abandon the party are rewarded and we are not," he said.
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Tell it all Brother Sharpton, tell it all, and we Democrats had better listen.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 7:20 AM
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