I hope Sharpton doesn’t become a candidate. In my opinion, he is an opportunistic political hack.
His status as a reverend makes him wholly unsuited to leading a nation with a strong separation of church 'n state tradition.
He’s a race-baiting bastard, too, but the above reason is more worrisome.
Actually the fire was in Harlem:
http://www.jewishpost.com/jpn201d.html
Granted, this is a sort of biased source, but it’s essentially correct. Eight people died, horribly, because some idiot took Sharpton seriously.
I mean this sincerely, as someone who’s read a lot of profiles of Sharpton that show he is often sinceere and much more intelligent and principled than he looks shouing into a megaphone: If this and Tawana Brawley had happened to a white politician, does anyone think he’d ever have been heard from again? I mean, look at the flak Kennedy takes for Chappaquiddick, which was just an accident.