Obama salutes Sharpton.

To those civilized humans who find the "Reverend" Al Sharpton nothing more than a loquacious huckster, James Taranto paints a grim picture of where we're now at.

He asks, "Why would the president of the United States give such a vicious demagogue the time of day?"

It seems that politics is the answer. And, I suppose, politics does make for strange bedfellow, but does it require a sitting president of the United States to cozy up to the Reverend Al?

As my grandmother would have said, "it's a shonda!"

What do you think?

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