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When Al Sharpton Calls You Cynical...

By Noam Scheiber

December 31, 2008

It's time for some self-reflection. Here's Sharpton, from a WaPo piece about Obama's ties to Blago, Burris, and Bobby Rush--the Dream Team from yesterday's press conference: "I think that Governor Blagojevich is trying to save himself and cynically trying to draw the president-elect into this. But President-elect Obama should stay out of this. The worst thing that he could do is be drawn back into Illinois politics."

--Noam Scheiber

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