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[NoRogerNoRerunNoRent]

What I find more amusing than the video are the excuses being made for Sharpton. You know damn well that if Bush were ever asked to sign a pocket Constitution and he replied, "I don't sign anything I haven't read," you people would be falling all over yourselves to forward it to everyone you know as the joke of the century.

[hpso12xu]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! i wish there was a way to put videos on t-shirts!

[someidiotchild]

This is all the more awesome now that they gave this jackass a TV show.

[rashadkijani]

@Rensune He may have ran for public office but he has never won. And he wasnt running for office in the context of this video. This video is in the context that he IS a elected official who didnt do his job by not reading the bill he should have read. Sharpton doesnt have any more power than you or I to sign any bills or make any laws.

[Rensune]

@rashadkijani Have either you or I run for public office? I have not (yet anyway) the reverend has. The question is valid as a hypothetical because of his many attempts. (However his response was also valid. Unlike his political platforms.)

[rashadkijani]

@Rensune Like I said Al sharpton is not a public official. He doesnt make laws. He doesnt have any duty to sign bills any more than you or I. If you cant understand that then there is no help for you.

[Rensune]

@rashadkijani They don't like Sharpton because he favors a nanny state, not because he's black. Join the 21st century.

[rashadkijani]

This video just shows how racist this country still is. Sharpton is not a elected official he doesnt sign any bills.His words dont carry any more weight than if rush limbaugh had made the same statement. In fact rush has more power since literally elected republicans have often been on rush's show apologizing to rush. The makers of this video are race baitng bigots and use sharpton as the black boogey man in order to scare the racist white supremacists that still exist in this country.

[FreedomInAmerica]

Al Sharpton believes that a vote for Obama was a vote for socialism. watch?v=KCpINI5aVy0 Al Sharpton wants to share the wealth. “Al Sharpton: We Won't Have True Social Justice Until Everything is Equal in Everybody's House” watch?v=95bcEb1rV18

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Sharpton should start by giving up his $5 million (from celebrity net worth com) It’s also worth noting Hilter was a socialist that seemed to follow the Communist Manifesto.

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Allen West 2012

[wolfofworld]

Now this idiot Sharpton is all over this imigration bill in AZ. They want it to where if a cop pulls a car over at night and the driver rolls the window down and the cop sees that their brown he has to say," sorry I didn't know you were brown", and let them go.