Free Republic

Al Sharpton was absolutely correct when he discounted last week's endorsements of Howard Dean and Wesley Clark by local black politicians. As he has proven in two New York races before - and as he demonstrated at a press conference surrounded by minority public officials on the steps of City Hall Tuesday - Sharpton will take all the local black communities, with or without outsiders' endorsements. If Jesus were to return as a white man, walk on water, raise the dead and then run for office, he might take Sharpton down. None of the other pols has a mouse's chance...