Jude: vote for Rev Al!

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Vote for Al Sharpton!!
>
>Memo To: Democrats of All Shades
>From: Jude Wanniski
>Re: A Blocking Back
<snip>
>Russert pulled all the usual stops trying to get him to hem and haw, 
>including his defense of Tawana Brawley, the black teenager who 
>cooked up a hoax about four white guys raping her, two of whom were 
>cops. Sharpton flat out refused to apologize, saying he did what he 
>did at the time because he believed in the girl. (Russert probably 
>does not remember that Bill Cosby was shoulder-to-shoulder with 
>Sharpton throughout. My wife Patricia does.)
<snip>
>Check out the Meet the Press transcript. Here was Tim Russert asking 
>Sharpton about his views on whether we should use force against 
>Iraq, and Sharpton saying most definitely we should not unless we 
>have run out of all diplomatic options. Russert asks: What if we 
>find that Saddam has a nuclear bomb? I think he really thought 
>Sharpton would lose it and hem and haw. But Sharpton said right 
>back: We should then treat Iraq the same way we are treating North 
>Korea.  With a full-press diplomacy.

I've never seen Sharpton speak on TV, but the way Wanniski writes 
about him makes me think that he has the right approach to 
self-representation.  I thought the same thing about Scott Ritter, 
who also appears to have a backbone.  It's important for leftists not 
to gravel and come across as apologetic about opposing the war or 
taking any other position.
-- 
Yoshie

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