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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:38 PM
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"Sharpton: Because I'm neutral, I will speak out and work against the seating of MI and FL delegates
You can't change the rules midstream", so he said on MSNBC.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:39 PM
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1. Sure Al, you're neutral. About as neutral as Bill Clinton.
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maximusveritas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:42 PM
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6. Is Al married to Obama?
Has Al campaigned for Obama?
Has he even endorsed Obama?

The answer to all of those is no. So the comparison is stupid. Al is as neutral as anyone else.
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:40 PM
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2. Good for you, Al. You're absolutely correct. It's dishonest without a re-vote. NT
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:40 PM
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3. That scumbag is not neutral at all!
Lying PIG!
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:41 PM
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Care to show a little bit of respect for either Al, or for the rules? NT
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:41 PM
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5. Tywanna Brawley ring a bell?
Sharpton is an extremist. I have not respect for him.
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socalover Donating Member (359 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:12 PM
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14. Angry white women???? nt
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:21 PM
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20. Nobody said he was a saint, but many people here are guilty of the same sort of thing.
Remember the Duke rape case? If you want to condemn Sharpton over the Brawley case, go ahead. I'll even join you. But you also have to attack the organizations that go similarly ape-shit over those sorts of cases, like NOW. I'll join you there too.

But in any event, that doesn't give one the right to call him names.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:42 PM
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8. Hey I don't always agree with him,

..but I have quite a bit of respect for him. He does what he thinks is right.....I guess. :eyes:
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Colobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:14 PM
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16. Why are you so angry?
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:41 PM
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4. Al's always been known for his neutrality.
:eyes:
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keep_it_real Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:42 PM
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7. But he is right u can't change the rules midstream
More deviousness from the Clinton's; I don't truth them.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:43 PM
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9. FL and MI should have waited until 5-5-08
They would have been the bomb!
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Kermit77 Donating Member (160 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:49 PM
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11. Good for Al! After Julian Bond's letter, Al had to represent the other side
A lot of Obama supporters didn't have a chance to vote for him in Michigan and Florida. I heard one independent voter on CSPAN say that she voted for Huckabee in Florida but she would have voted for Obama if she thought it would have counted.

Michigan and Florida must re-do their vote. It is only fair.
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Hill_YesWeWill Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:47 PM
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10. I agree, Kudos to Sharpton! It would be undemocratic
for thos delegates to be seated without a revote. I cant imagine if Clinton won by doing that that she would enjoy the ramifications in the general election.
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Caribbean Eyes Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:10 PM
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12. Seat them
If they dont do something with those 800,000 votes from Fl they will lose this election big time.
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Hill_YesWeWill Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:19 PM
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19. I read somewhere that they will seat them but split their influence 50/50 nt
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:26 PM
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22. And how do you figure that, exactly?
The Florida primary doesn't affect the general election.
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workinclasszero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:11 PM
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13. Yay Reverend Al!! /nt
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New Dawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:14 PM
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15. K&R
I agree completely.
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nomorewhopper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:15 PM
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17. LOL i'm not in favor of couting those votes, but believe me, Al ain't neutral :D
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:15 PM
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18. Indeed. Thank you Rev. Sharpton.
That's exactly it.
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Araxen Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:24 PM
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21. I'm afraid to say
But I agree with Al for once. Hillary is like Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes". Calvin is always changing the rules when he starts losing while they play some game and that's what I see what Hillary is trying to do.

She agreed that they wouldn't seated and then flip-flopped when she saw she was going to need them. The Hillobots needs to wipe the shit from their eyes to see the truth.
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liskddksil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:29 PM
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Thank you Al!
Changing the rules to your benefit during the game is wrong plain in simple. I learned that in third grade.
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liskddksil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:29 PM
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23. Thank you Al!
Changing the rules to your benefit during the game is wrong plain in simple. I learned that in third grade.
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:30 PM
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24. Hell has frozen, I AGREE WITH SHARPTON!! (nt)
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:31 PM
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25. That basically means Hillary will lose lots of black votes in the general
if she wins the nomination via MI and FL.

Sharpton is a hellraiser without peer.
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