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What with all of the talk of troop surges in Iraq and the Donald/Rosie tiff and the Ohio State meltdown in the BCS Championship game, you may have missed some very important news on Monday: it seems that Al Sharpton is considering running for President again.

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton said Monday he is seriously considering a run for president. “I don’t hear any reason not to,” Sharpton, 52, said in an interview during an urban affairs conference sponsored by another civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

“If we’re talking about the urban agenda, can you tell me anybody else in the field who’s representing that right now?” Sharpton asked. “We clearly have a reason to run, and whether we do it or not we’ll see over the next couple of months.”

I agree. There’s no reason for Sharpton *not* to run. Of course he hasn’t got a chance of actually winning the nomination. And it’s not just so that we can hear clever lines like “Right now we’re hearing a lot of media razzle dazzle. I’m not hearing a lot of meat, or a lot of content. I think when the meat hits the fire, we’ll find out if it’s just fat or if there’s some real meat there.”

Back in 2004, he ran a nice short campaign. Didn’t have to break too much of a sweat. But he got to pick up $100K in Presidential Election Campaign Funds (although he later had to agree to repay the amount because his campaign violated the rules about the amount of personal money spent) and even got to address the Democratic National Convention.

Because of his name, he’s also guaranteed to get favorable serious coverage from the mass media. For someone who loves publicity (and gets a chance to raise money from others in order to get more)… he’s right: there’s no reason not to.