Posted on 04/18/2010 9:58:25 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton is a "lightning rod" for President Barack Obama on inner city streets, Obama's former Harvard mentor and friend said Saturday at a forum in Harlem.
But Sharpton, who led the event, told The Associated Press that America's first black president "has to work both for us and for others," and that if Obama were to push a race-based agenda, "that would only organize the right against him....."
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Obama would be better served by listening to the Rev Manning
he looks like he has had a lot of practice like that .. maybe Larry Sinclaire has been giving him lessons again?
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