earlier, i posted a comment about this article. later on i read a blog by byron williams on huffpo. it deserves attention as he is more eloquent than i am. sorry,i am a computer illiterate and don’t know how to make links,so you’ll just have to find it yourself.

Robertson, Falwell get new buddy. All the preachers are the same: selling their salivas for big bucks, for mistresses, for self-pleasures…But the majority of people will never be blind by their sugar-coated voice excepts their own followers !

Al Sharpton is no beacon of decency, but he most assuredly is not comparable to Trentt Lott, Strom Thurmond, or Newt Gingrinch. Sharpton is a media figure and should be treated thus. If you’re not interested in what he has to say simply change the station. Whereas these other gentlemen worked in our congress where they wielded much influence on domestic policies.Sharpton is not representative of the Black community, he represents himself and his views. Period. The more attention given to him the less he is marginalized. Simply tune him out, he doesn’t deserve the publicity (positive or negative).

al sharpton, what a joke. a self serving buffoon. why,oh,why do we as a people take assholes like this seriously? who told him that anyone wants to hear anything he has to say? why is he given any press at all? he is just as guilty of hate mongering as oreilly or coulter or rush. public figures generally make me sick to my stomach. the fools that get the money to run for office,never represent my outlook. the fools endorsing them have a lot of power that i don’t believe they should have. why should hilary,for whom i have no use whatsoever, pander to this slimeball? why would obama give him the time of day? edwards is,in his own way a statesman,why does he need to get the approval of some one like sharpton? how many votes do these people believe he can really deliver?

Another corporate media article.  Another chance to mention Clinton/Obama/Edwards while pretending that the Kucinich campaign does not exist.

One of my big criticisms of the Republican party is that they pander to racists like Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, etc.etc.They are by any measure a party that depends on racist voters as a dependable bloc.
However,I must admit in all fairness that the Democrats are guilty of the same sort of pandering. I remember Tawana Brawley, and the blatantly racial slanders uttered by none other than Reverend Al, and shudder to think that he is being courted by Dems as if he is something other than a piece of lying opportunistic slime.Damn ,this just isn’t right.