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01/09/02 08:28 PM: Sharpton ‘04?
SO, what is new on the internet tonight you ask?
Well, you can always watch TechTV host Chris Pirillo and his wife, Gretchen argue with each other via their respective weblogs…
I enjoy reading my daily Best of the Web from the WSJ Opinion Journal.
Here is an exerpt:
“Al Sharpton has been making noises about running for president in 2004, and we must confess to mixed feelings about the prospect. On the one hand, Sharpton is an irresponsible demagogue with a penchant for poisoning race relations. On the other hand—well, who can resist a good circus? George Will imagines the scene:
Picture the other candidates in 2004, mostly senators with their pretty red ties and not a hair out of place, decorously debating Sharpton, who talks like this: “In the language of the ‘hood, Clinton pimp-slapped Jesse on Sister Souljah.” Sharpton is talking about Clinton’s 1992 criticism of a black rap singer to distance himself from, among others, Jackson. . . .
In his chalk-striped gray flannel he is more conservatively dressed than many in the Four Seasons hotel dining room. “I am conservative on everything but race,” he declares with a straight face, a declaration somewhat vitiated by the fact that, for him, everything is race.
Sly, clever, witty, incapable of embarrassment and uninterested in the ceremonial politeness of national politics, Sharpton is going to have fun in 2004.”
WELL, I’d have to vote Bush over Sharpton in ‘04, plus my remaining respect for the democratic party would go down the drain in the event he somehow nabbed a nomination (or even won ANY primary for that matter…)
What else is new? Not much, I worked pretty much all day on school work, and then I watched ER on TV. I was rockin’ it out this Thursday night.
