Obama Forfeits Moral Leadership by Embracing Sharpton

National Legal & Policy Center ^ | April 6, 2011 | Peter Flaherty

[jazusamo]

I am tempted to say that President Obama rushing up to New York City to embrace Al Sharpton during the opening days of his campaign is evidence of a weakness in his re-election prospects. But it is much worse than that.

Barack Obama is failing to demonstrate leadership on racial issues, and leadership in general, by paying such homage to Sharpton. I thought the whole point of electing a black president was to allow the nation to rise above everything that Sharpton represents.

Sharpton has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for violating campaign laws as result of Complaints filed by the National Legal and Policy Center. But that is nothing morally compared to the incidents that Sharpton has orchestrated over the years, such as the Tawana Brawley episode, calculated to increase racial animosity. A detailed account of these incidents can be found in our Special Report titled Mainstreaming Demagoguery: Al Sharpton's Rise to Respectability by Dr. Carl Horowitz of ourt staff.

Yes, I do believe in a "statute of limitations" for public figures. After a decent interval, people should be allowed a second chance. Sharpton, however, remains unrepentant and unapologetic for the Brawley hoax. That should preclude his political rehabilitation.

[ConservativeDude]

I thought the whole point of electing a black president was to allow the nation to rise above everything that Sharpton represents.”

brain dead lib

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

He’d embrace Jesse Jackson if he wasn’t in fear of losing ‘the boys’.

[jazusamo]

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[MestaMachine]

“Obama Forfeits Moral Leadership by Embracing Sharpton”

obama had moral leadership?
I must have missed that movie.
When was it on?

[SonOfDarkSkies]

This author is the star of that new Geico commercial...about the guys living under a rock.

[Mouton]

Correct...the words Moral and (!)bama do not belong in the same headline.

[Howie66]

What “moral authority”??

He has never had anything that could be confused with “moral authority” and never will.

[Howie66]

Please excuse me....”authority” should be “leadership”. Yet another thing that he would know nothing about.

[jazusamo]

Correct, Zer0 has no moral authority.

[Logical me]

King Obama will get another term. The Republicans don’t know how to fight. Tea Party has the same problem. Always behind and prayer will not do it.

[count-your-change]

My,my,my...one man’s election was going to save us from ourselves! Can anyone actually believe such tripe?

[Maverick68]

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[mass55th]

You can’t forfeit something you never had.

[Responsibility2nd]

Obama Forfeits Moral Leadership by Embracing Sharpton

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Sheesh. Obama forfeited moral leadership a long time ago. Doubtful he ever had it.

[FrankR]

Pulling in Sharpton underlines that this president is wholly about RACE, and not about America.

I think he's got all of the black vote he's gonna get, the smart ones are deserting him like a tear gas convention.

It's coming down to "poverty pimp vs. America"...the inevitible race war that obama wants.

[balls]

0 is lower than a filthy pig. I can’t imagine 5 1/2 more years of him, but it’s looking more and more likely (strong support from U.S. Jews such as Zuckerman, Soros, Goldman-Sachs execs).

[Hotlanta Mike]

King Obama will get another term. The Republicans don’t know how to fight. Tea Party has the same problem. Always behind and prayer will not do it.

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Within the next 6 months King Obama will be exposed as Fraud Obama. His re-election hopes in 2012 are in the crapper. What is he going to run on, his accomplioshments. HA HA HA!

That’s why the Zero is running off to one of the Justice Brothers for cover with the black community, if Al Sharpton speaks for the entire black community. To make it a racial issue. White America from the beginning wanted him to fail and has done everything to hurt his efforts in the fundamental transformation of America.

[jazusamo]

I think he's got all of the black vote he's gonna get, the smart ones are deserting him like a tear gas convention.

I agree and cozying up to this race hustler will gain him nothing, in fact it will probably lose votes for him.

[MestaMachine]

Well, I figure if he feels like he has to PANDER for the BLACK vote, he is in more trouble than we even think.