Big Obama Boost: Rev. Jesse Jackson Insults Him

July 10th, 2008 By: Claudia, Assistant Editor | Tags:
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It’s  rare in politics that a prominente figure attacking you is cause for celebration, but I think Obama campaign headquarters was very pleased to hear about the latest attack on Obama.

Why? Because the attack came from Rev. Foot-In-Mouth Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Jackson was apparently upset at Obama’s talk towards the African American community. Obama has been using his bully pulpit to talk tough to the community about responsibility and especially about the importance of a father being in the home. Jesse, who thought nothing of calling New York “Hymietown” simply can’t bear to see anyone saying anything but sweet nothings into the African American community ear. He especially doesn’t want to hear that maybe, just maybe, the responsibility for lifting yourself up lies within a community, not just within a government, which is a theme Obama has stressed in his talks to the black community.

 

So Jesse let it all hang out on Fox the other day, thinking his mic was off (which, considering he was on Fox, just shows you how sharp he is) saying that Obama was “talking down” to the African American community, and that he wanted to “cut his nuts off” (side note: it’s very amusing to see how news agencies don’t dare repeat the words themselves, saying things like “slang reference to castration”, well aren’t they pretty LOL).

The very second Jackson caught wind that his comments had been recorded and were to be (of course) aired, he quickly apologized and then called a press conference to apologize at length, basically expressing his undying love for Obama.

 

The Obama campaign said very little, except to reaffirm Obama’s views on the necessity of present fathers and to accept the apology.

 

One congressman was much less forgiving, saying:

“I’m deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson’s reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama. His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee — and I believe the next president of the United States — contradict his inspiring and courageous career”

 

Who is this angry congressman? That would be  rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). That’s right, that’s Jesse Jacksons own son slamming his father for the comments.

 

This is yet another demonstration of the rift between generations. Jesse Jackson senior comes from the civil rights movement generation, and just many Americans who came of age in that time of turmoil, he feels most at ease in conflict and confrontation. His son and Obama are from the next generation, a generation increasingly less willing to fight their parents battles again. Hearing Jesse’s apologies one gets the impression that he knows his (already lessened) influence is waning still more, and he’s getting rather desperate. If Obama becomes the next president, the torch of African American leaders will have definitively passed on to the next generation, and it’s looking more and more like that generation has no plans on taking Jackson’s advice.

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  1. Bob
    July 10th, 2008 at 15:35
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    WRONG!  Jackson’s comments only divide the black vote.  This in no way helps Obama.

    Also, Jackson is only partially correct.  Obama "talks down" to EVERYONE; black, white, green and purple.  It’s that liberal, elitist mentality.

  2. Morris
    July 10th, 2008 at 17:57
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    Bob, you need to find a better way to hide your contempt.  This is a big boost for Obama.  70% of America hates Jesse 20% don’t care for him and 10% view him as a has-been.

  3. Ron
    July 14th, 2008 at 19:31
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     Jesse Jackson has always been "Jive" as far as this African-American is concerned. His claim that Martin Luther King Jr. "…died in his arms in Memphis", symbolicaly passing "the torch" of leadership" to him, has infuriated me and countless other Blacks because it was, and still is a LIE which he STILL refuses to admit loudly! He IS an impressive speaker and in the past he’s gotten many  Blacks,  young and old into the voting booths but his time is up, his moral account almost depleted. Morris, where did you get your "facts" about who hates and who like him ? Check again.. Racisim still has a comfortable !home in America! A fact we all, Blacks and Whites, cannot deny. How we go about dealing openly with it without the "finger pointing" is something  lots of folks who lived through the ’60’s, suffering under racisim , still today find HARD to do.I’m one of those who lived through it and was able to lose the hate, lose the feelings of revenge and instead learn, maybe becuse I’ve lived in Europe for so long, to concentrate on how to solve the problem without resorting to devisive and destructive attitudes such as Rev. Wright and Farrakan have done and are still doing. Obama is the one who, if he can convince White Americans he’s NOT going to revive the ’60’s Civil Rights battles but WILL insure that his White House will not tolerate  racisim in any form or colour,(his election alone would be proof that he’s sucreeding) to finally make our country  REALLY the greatest on earth. Dr. King would be pleased. Me too, 
     

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