Professional agitator Al Sharpton is running for president in 2004 - and Al Gore's failure to steal the 2000 election "inspired" him.
"I feel that the Democratic Party must be challenged in 2004 because it didn't fight aggressively to protect our voting rights in Florida," Sharpton claimed to Time magazine.
"I think we need to look at running a black in the primary. I have said I would be available to do it," said Sharpton, forever infamous for promoting the Tawana Brawley hoax.
The idea seems to be that Jesse Jackson is no longer the Harold Stassen of the Democrat party, so someone has to fill in - but Sharpton denies trying to capitalize on the disgraced Jackson's waning popularity.
"I'm not one to think that Rev. Jackson's finished," he said. "I'm not trying to take advantage of his travail. My rise is not at Jesse's expense. If I'm rising it's because I've done the work on issues like police brutality that affect huge numbers of our people."
Sharpton failed in a bid for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and three years later failed in a bid for mayor of New York City, United Press International reported today.
Still to be determined: the number of Democrats who jump ship to avoid being associated with Sharpton.
And we thought nothing could be funnier than Janet Reno wanting to be governor of Florida.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/5/21/152647 Are the Democrats this desperate or what?
Heck Reno should run as his Veep. She has as much a chance at that as becoming FL's next gov.
LOL
Eagler
