A colleague e-mails from the CNN blog.
“CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider thinks the Kerry folks may be sweating more than cheering. Sharpton is apparently the first speaker to deviate from his script in a well-choreographed week…
“Sharpton said that if Bush were president in 1954 — the year of Brown vs. Board of Education — then Clarence Thomas never would have made it to law school. Schneider said this line could be misconstrued. While Sharpton was attempting to make a point regarding Bush’s stance on affirmative action, the comment could be taken to imply that Bush would have been a segregationist, Schneider said.”