"Turn out the lights, the party's over!"....

..... so sang Al 'Fast Lipped' Sharpton when he announced publicly that although he is for Obama, he ain't gonna tell nobody that he's for Obama, 'cause that way he can help Obama more...! Huh?

From the Daily News:

During rally, Al Sharpton says he's keeping support for Obama quiet
By ADAM SERWER and MICHAEL SAUL DAILY NEWS WRITERS
March 19th 2008

The Rev. Al Sharpton is backing Barack Obama, but he's made the strategic decision to keep his support quiet.
That's the message Sharpton delivered to his flock last Saturday as he boasted of talking to Obama "two or three times a week" - and insisted the Democratic front-runner knows the rev is in his camp.
"I said, 'I'm gonna do whatever I gotta do to help you. Hillary Clinton has never done nothing for us,'" said Sharpton, recounting a conversation with Obama for his followers at his group's weekly rally.
"'I won't either endorse you or not endorse you,'" Sharpton said he told the Illinois senator as the two made their way to a Nov. 29 dinner at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem. "'But I will tell you I can be freer not endorsing you to help you and everybody else.'"
According to Sharpton, Obama protested and asked for his public support. "'No, no, no. I want you to endorse,'" Sharpton recalled Obama saying.
Sharpton told Obama that it would be better strategically for him to remain publicly neutral.

'Course later at this same rally, "He specifically cited racially tinged statements from former President Bill Clinton, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro as troubling."

How can this man of the cloth, this gentleman, this generous religious soul, turn his back so quickly on the man he called the "First Black President". Ouch -- so much for short lived loyalty! Ohh the pain.....