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Whenever a politician does anything remotely cool or hip, it’s breaking news. Such was the case when Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, exchanged a “fist bump” right before the Illinois senator declared himself the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the Rev. Al Sharpton doesn’t quite get what all the fuss is about.
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“I think when you are talking about a candidate and his wife and a fist bump and not talking about considering black kids in Detroit not graduating, that is kind of crazy,” Sharpton told Yeas & Nays at the National Press Club following an event sponsored by the National Education Reform Coalition.
Sharpton also discussed his appearance in a commercial alongside ideological opposite the Rev. Pat Robertson (the ad was made and paid for by Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection.
“We are not an odd couple,” Sharpton said. “He brings the understanding of the educational system and where it works and doesn’t work, and I bring the legitimacy of a civil rights activist and see it as a civil rights issue.”
If you say so, Al.
