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Sorry, Christina : Guess who Barack Obama is palling around with now?.
wsj ^ | APRIL 6, 2011. | JAMES TARANTO

Posted on 04/06/2011 3:10:11 PM PDT by cutty

"I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it," President Obama declared in Tucson, Ariz., in January. He was referring to Christina Green, the 9-year-old girl whom Jared Loughner allegedly murdered five days earlier, and making a plea for civility and decency in politics.

"Obama will be speaking Wednesday for the first time as commander in chief at the annual convention of the National Action Network and standing with its founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton--whom the President largely ignored before his 2008 election," reports New York's Daily News.

In The Wall Street Journal a decade ago, Fred Siegel described the man with whom the president of the United States is now palling around:

Mr. Sharpton is best-known for the Tawana Brawley hoax, in which he insisted that a 15-year-old black girl had been abducted and raped by a band of white men practicing Irish Republican Army rituals. In fact she had made up the story to protect herself from her violent stepfather.

But at Freddy's [Fashion Mart, a Harlem store], Mr. Sharpton was even more malevolent. He turned a landlord-tenant dispute between the Jewish owner of Freddy's and a black subtenant into a theater of hatred. Picketers from Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network, sometimes joined by "the Rev." himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about "bloodsucking Jews" and "Jew bastards" and threatening to burn the building down.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; craven; sharpton

1 posted on 04/06/2011 3:10:17 PM PDT by cutty
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To: cutty
"I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it," President Obama declared...

Except that we are a republic, not a democracy, you dolt, and no amount of saying so will change that fact.

Overthrow the citizenry and annul the Constitution, if you want something different, if you dare. Be warned, though:

http://floydreports.com/if-you-try-to-take-our-firearms-we-will-kill-you/

Let's see the courage of your convictions.

2 posted on 04/06/2011 3:16:25 PM PDT by ronnyquest (I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see fascism elected at home.)
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To: cutty
She was nine. You really think she knows more than she was "fed". How dare he use her!!

Let her rest in peace.

Mary Jo Kopechne had expectations, too.

3 posted on 04/06/2011 3:16:30 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: cutty

There is no level below which Libs cannot stoop.


4 posted on 04/06/2011 3:22:56 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

Obama to speech writer, ‘I want that dead girl in my speech, dammit! I don’t care how you do it, just get it done!’


5 posted on 04/06/2011 3:39:59 PM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: cutty

I BOYCOTT FOX when that SHYSTER is on!!!


6 posted on 04/06/2011 5:24:51 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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