And I thank you for that, Al.
Posted on 07/27/2007 5:08:46 AM PDT by tcrlaf
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Civil rights leader Al Sharpton said Thursday black voters should punish Republicans who fail to show for presidential candidates' forums hosted by the National Urban League and the NAACP.
``We can only assume you weren't courting us,'' Sharpton said. ``Republicans have to lay out their policies and court the African-American vote. We need to have our interests debated in the market place.''
Sharpton noted there won't be another NAACP or Urban League conference before the presidential primaries.
``When I was in high school, I may not have gone to the prom with the girl I wanted, but with the girl I could get,'' he said, suggesting Republicans leave black voters little choice but to vote for a Democrat.
Sharpton was among a panel of black leaders, political strategists from both major parties and journalists who discussed the black vote in the 2008 presidential election at the Urban League's national conference here.
Five presidential candidates - four Democrats and one Republican - are scheduled to address the conference Friday. Among them are top-tier Democrats Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, and John Edwards. The lone Republican is Rep. Duncan Hunter of California.
Earlier this month, all eight Democratic candidates participated in a forum at the NAACP meeting in Detroit. The only Republican was Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a long-shot candidate. (Snip)
Urban League president Marc Morial said black voters deserve more than ``drive-by politics and last-minute appeals to churches.'' But, he admitted, ``sometimes we aren't good about getting out to vote.'' He said no candidate has talked about black economic development, which is the civil rights organization's major thrust.
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Democrat Party Liberalism has made Blacks democraphicly insignificant (Or WILL Very soon!). BROWN is the new Black, Al.....
Could it be that the Rev Al is finally figuring out the democrats are just stringing blacks along to get votes?
Maybe the Rev Al thinks it’t time to try and suck the Republicans into their give me hand out game.
How? By not voting for them? What's this we have now?
I dont think he is that smart.
They need the donations.
Don’t you get it Al if black are regular Amricans folks what is their to pander to if we are all brothers and Sisters.
Al you are still trying to profit off the race divide, shame on you go get yourself a job brother!
I guess he did not get the message that blacks are welcome at all Republican events. They have not needed to segregate themselves off for quite a few decades now.
Fixed.
And I thank you for that, Al.
Somebody must have troweled on a load of industrial strength spackling compound. The old gal looks halfway presentable.
Regards,
GtG
Anyone with a lick of sense avoids going anywhere that Al Sharpton is going to be.
It’s simple. We can’t out-bid the democrats.
If your interests differ from America's interests, why should politicians pander to you?
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