The Rev. Al Sharpton, who was one of 10 contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, addresses the Democratic National Convention in Boston. (Associated Press photos)
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"The insult there was that he acted like we have become Democrats by some unthinking process, rather than that we had been rejected and treated hostile by the Republican Party. They promised us 40 acres and a mule. We waited and nothing happened. The fact of the matter is, Mr. Bush, we waited around with the Republican Party through Herbert Hoover. Still didn't get the 40 acres. Didn't even get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."
--The Rev. Al Sharpton, in response to "President" Bush's surreally insane assertion to the Urban League last week that the Republican Party offers African Americans a viable alternative to the Democratic Party. For good measure, the punchy Sharpton, who should be writing John Kerry's speeches, added that Bush was "born on third base" but "[thinks] he hit a triple."
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