sjrozan

See, this is why I don't usually write about politics. I'm not good at it and I don't enjoy it. But I feel strongly about this, and anyway I started it.

I don't see any reason Sharpton should be held to a higher standard because he claims to be following in King's footsteps. And do we mean King the sainted martyr, or King the womanizing headline-grabber? Sure a better black should be running for President than Sharpton. And it would have been good to have a better Jew than Lieberman, too. Politicians are all a bunch of tin-pot despots. When they get to be President they get gold pots, but they're the same guys. That doesn't mean they can't do some good for the rest of us, it just means that's not why they're in it. What Sharpton can do is help deliver a constituency the Democrats desperately need. Sure he's a louse, but he's no worse a louse than most turn out to be. (The Mafia delivered Chicago for the Kennedys. And Bill Clinton did have sex with that woman.) And he's a great speaker. He's trying to use the Democrats? Let him, and use him back, because that's what politics is all about.

sjrozan I'm a writer, at work on my 11th book. This blog is a record of random and less-random thoughts. If you want to know more about me, check my website, linked here. I also had a blog going from spring through late fall 2004 about the publishing process for my 9th book, ABSENT FRIENDS. That blog's called "Progress" and you can find the link here. I won't make any more entries but I'm leaving it up in case anyone's interested; the process is more or less the same from book to book.
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