Obama: Sherrod deserved better

CNN

[cnn-photo-caption image=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/POLITICS/07/29/sherrod.lawsuit.breitbart/smlvid.sherrod.cnn.jpg caption="President Barack Obama said Thursday that Shirley Sherrod deserves better" width=300 height=169]

President Barack Obama said Thursday that Shirley Sherrod "deserves better than what happens last week when a bogus controversy ... led to her forced resignation."

"Many are to blame" for the reaction that followed, he said, "including my own administration."

Her whole story, Obama said he told Sherrod, "is exactly the kind of story we need to hear in America (because) we all have our biases."

The president made his remarks during an appearance at the National Urban League's 100th Anniversary Convention in Washington.