DALLAS – Rev. Al Sharpton this morning chastised House Majority Leader John Boehner for disrespecting President Barack Obama earlier this week, during a live, morning remote broadcast of the nationally syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show” during the weekend-long 2011 Allstate® Tom Joyner Family Reunion.
Sharpton urged black critics of the president to stop “stand up for him or get out of the way.” He said that he will be leading a national effort to support the president’s proposed jobs plan to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure. He said the Boehner and the Republicans “can’t tell us when to speak.”
“We can’t let them do that,” said Sharpton, a regular contributor to Joyner’s radio show. “So we’re going to act like we’re the real president. We’re going to put people back to work. We’ve got to rebuild schools, rebuild infrastructure. We have to spend the money on building this country and put the people back to work who can rebuild this country – and that’s us.
Sharpton reminded listeners that the leading Republican presidential candidates do not “stand up for regular working people.” “Either you gonna have Rick Perry who’s already said that he thinks Medicare is a Ponzi Scheme. And you’ve got Michelle Bachmann and you’ve got Romney. … Then you have President Obama,” Sharpton said. –neil foote
Sharpton’s full comments can be found in the “If You Missed It” section on BlackAmericaWeb.com. (blackamericaweb.com)
