by MARGARET KIMBERLEY
Shirley Sherrod, an official at the United States Department of Agriculture, was the latest intended victim of Andrew Breitbart, the right wing agent provocateur responsible for the assassination and ultimate demise of ACORN. Like ACORN, Sherrod was victimized by a Democratic administration which revels in its willingness to assist the right in throwing its own people under the proverbial bus. It is tragic but obvious that if John McCain and Sarah Palin were governing the country, Shirley Sherrod, ACORN and the rest of the Democratic party base could hardly be worse off than they are under the Obama administration.
Shirley Sherrod escaped outright character assassination only because a white Georgia farmer and his wife came to her defense and told the story of how she saved their family farm in 1986 when she worked for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund.
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