Obama Hits NYC to Court Angry Racist Vote

I hope you suckers in New York City don't mind all that gridlock traffic during rush hour this afternoon while your president comes to Manhattan to kiss the ring of racial arsonist Al Sharpton.

President Obama is making his second visit to the city in as many weeks - and is calling upon an unlikely ally to shore up the support of his political base.

An unlikely ally? Huh? How many times have we've seen these two yukking it up together?

Obama will be speaking Wednesday for the first time as commander in chief at the annual convention of the National Action Network and standing with its founder, the Rev. Al Sharpton - whom the President largely ignored before his 2008 election.

The symbolic speech at the Sheraton in midtown - coming just days after the President held two events in Harlem - indicates that Obama, who is battling slipping poll numbers, is trying to bolster his standing among African-Americans, political scientists said.

"It proves again that 2012 will be very different than 2008," said Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. "Then, Obama was very wary of the race issue and of being labeled as a 'black candidate.'"

"But some of the enthusiasm surrounding that election has faded," said Sabato. "He needs an injection of energy and Sharpton can provide some of that, at least in the black community."

As we noted last week, Sharpton and his NAN owe the feds millions in back taxes.