I just want to point out that should Obama become successful enough then this guy would be great to play him in the movie.
Also, why is it that both the Democrats and Republicans seem to have nominated the worst available public speakers for CiC? I know that the position isn’t all oratory, but the perception of leadership is often tied to the perception of public speaking confidence and neither of them is very good.
Just curious why you are so willing to believe that President Reagan penned most of his speeches but are much more skeptical about Obama having penned his.
(And, if Reagan really did, what the hell did Peggy Noonan do? Correct his grammar and punctuation?)
Excuse me… did you ever actually listen to anything Al Sharpton said during the debates or even during his speech? He is hardly a blubbering clown. He’s very earthy, but I’m far from the only person who feels that many times during the dem debates, it was Al Sharpton saying what needed to be said and what the other candidates probably wished they could risk saying. Sharpton had nothing to lose so he spoke the truth, and quite eloquently, too.
I agree. I grew up in NYC during the Tawana Brawley fiasco, and I know how much he was reviled. His credibility was shot with most New Yorkers, myself included. It was a shameful affair for all involved.
That was almost 20 years ago.
Recently, aside from the fact that he and I match on most policy issues, Sharpton has been eloquent, to the point, and has said what has needed to be said, mostly because he knows that he doesn’t have a chance. He consistently dominated the Dem debates, and gave a fine speech last night, certainly more inspiring than some I’ve had to listen to over this week.
I project Sharpton as mayor of NYC in the next decade. In fact, I believe that this run was basically positioning himself as a national figure so that he’d be taken seriously in the local race. From there, who knows? He’d not be the first scoundrel who found himself as an elder statesman.
Could be worse. I wanted Lieberman, and even I refer to him as “Mumbles the whiner.”