Aqil said:As a graduate of Harvard and a lawyer, how is he supposed to speak?
What is the "typical Democratic response"?
The brother is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, and he is more qualified than the likes of Mike Ditka...
Re: Sharpton, I agree. However, nobody "wheeled this guy out." The planners of the Democratic Convention wanted another African-American to speak besides Sharpton. Barak Obama's Republican opponent, Jack Ryan, had to drop out of the Senate race...Obama is running unopposed...and was their most likely candidate. As one of us who has a chance to make history, we applauded their choice...
Both Sharpton and Jackson spoke quite highly of him, and continue to do so...