The Rev. Jesse Jackson may be unhappy that Barack Obama is taking the spotlight off some old-guard African-American leaders. But there is no excuse for Jackson having said that he wanted to cut Obama’s “nuts out” for supporting faith-based initiatives and for talking about the responsibilities of African-American men. Is Jackson nuts? Jackson apologized for his “regretfully crude” comment, but his son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., who is national co-chairman of Obama’s campaign, was outraged, calling his dad’s comments reckless and demeaning. “I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric,” he said.
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Obama doesn’t have to worry about the old guard, they go along for the ride in the pimp wagon anytime.
It’s the moderate/conservative Blacks of the old South and Midwest churches that Obama needs to worry about. They are great in number and not liking what they are seeing in Obama.
Now we know what Jackson says when he does his supposed off camera, off mike mumbling on TV. :D
THANK YOU EAGLE!!!
We really needed a separate topic on this.
Thanks again.
Seems there are many opinions of this latest bright and shiny topic of great importance. A few I found:
Jackson’s comments were criticized by his son, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., an Illinois Democrat and a national co-chairman of Obama’s presidential campaign.
“I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric,” the lawmaker said in a statement. “He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself.”
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said Obama “will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other, and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson’s apology.”
He should do more than just forgive Jackson, said David Schultz, a professor in the graduate school of management at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
“Obama should give Jackson and O’Reilly an award for helping his campaign with white voters,” Schultz said.
“It reinforces Obama’s effort to present himself as an advocate of responsible personal behavior, a position that Republican candidates like to secure as uniquely their own,”
Demonstrates that Jackson is what he is: a pimp, primarily concerned with his own welfare and position. Obama, for all the BS about him being a “new kind of politics,” represents a changing of the guard for black leadership.
And the old guard sees their gravy train pulling out of the station without them.
My god, great news…Jesse Jackson makes ass of self…
Now we can be free at last, free at last of him as some media generated pseudo approval giver of all race issues.
Now get to work on Sharpton…shouldnt take long with all the cell phone cameras.
Need to get some of the new YBL’s up front. Such as former Congressman Harold Ford or Michael Steele etc. Time to root out the old Guard and their antiquated ideas….
Not really worthy of its own thread, unless we get a Trollop,C#nt thread. Equal time.
Jackson has been using the Church for political purposes, for several years now. Not everything Jackson does is completely legal. Where does Jackson get off complaining about this issue?
Jackson just doesn’t want other people, especially on the right, doing that as well.
As far as “nuts” are concerned, Obama has lots of them!
“Cut off” Wright, Ayers, Farrakhan etc!
On the Washington Post, bloggers are saying it was a set up deal. It does look suspicious: Jackson’s son in the Obama camp; being dissed by the old guard politicians helps Obama distance himself from them, without Barack having to it, etc. It is being called a “Sister Souljah Moment”.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/10/obamas_accidental_sister_soulj.html?hpid=topnews
Linda is, however, correct this is a typical MSM story – who’s winning in the rhetorical/verbal slugfest, rather than careful analysis – this is the media coverage McClellan was decrying in his book “What Happened:”
I learned a brand-new (to me) term — Sister Souljah Moment. According to this article the term has its own wiki entry. I’d never heard of it. So, now that I’ve read this article I can see why bloggers are suspicious of a set-up.
Obama’s Accidental Sister Souljah Moment
http://tinyurl.com/5mpwhd
Ooops, sorry Steven. I came back to the board from surfing, posted and then read your comment. Didn’t mean to duplicate. Should look first.
I thought the comment was funny as all get out. Jackson should had known that Faux would have pulled something like this on him. Classic.
Looks like Obama isn’t against throwing anyone at all under the bus. I am NOT a big fan of Jackson at all, he goes over the top, but I appreciate what his organization does try to do. I can’t ever forget his own racist statements either.
I look at it this way, I’d say something like that about a friend of mine if they were doing something I didn’t like….in jest. That’s kindof how I took the comment. I think Obama needed to hear it too. He’s p’ing off his base left and right.
Obama will be Obama’s own worst enemy, wait until Floyd Brown goes to work with Obama’s audio version of Obama’s bogus auto-biography:
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/Obama_Audio_Book_/2008/07/08/110818.html?s=al&promo_code=6595-1
“Obama will be Obama’s own worst enemy”
With enemies like Rossell, who needs friends?
“Jackson should had known that Faux would have pulled something like this on him. Classic.”
A Liberal blaming everybody except the one who did it. Classic.
Regular,,,how do you know what conservative blacks in the South and Midwest are thinking? Have you been atttending black churches? They will vote for
Obama without question.
McCains says with Advisors like Graham, who the hell’s going to vote for him?
BELLEVILLE, Michigan (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Thursday sharply rejected a top economic adviser’s description of the United States as “a nation of whiners” who are in a mental recession.
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Democratic White House rival Barack Obama pounced on the remarks and said they proved McCain was out of touch on the economy, a critical issue in November’s presidential election.
McCain moved quickly to limit the political damage caused by the comments of adviser Phil Gramm, a former Texas senator who questioned the extent of the U.S. economic downturn in an interview with the Washington Times.
I think Jackson played Fox, what better set up to add credibility than to have the enemy camp lead with the story.
I think it’s stretching things a bit much to refer to “Rev” Jackson as a Leader, thats a title earned by respect. Better to refer to him as a bad example.
“Rev” Jesse is a living tragedy; I understand he once showed great promise as a baseball player, but instead found there’s more money to be had by feeding off the misery of others.
Please throw him and “Rev” Al under the same Bus…
From the LA Times:
“The scathing remarks first came to the attention of an employee working the overnight shift Sunday, who transcribed the tape as part of training for the network’s ongoing digital conversion. Otherwise, “it potentially would have not been discovered,” Shine said.”
Sister Soulja moment? Fox News set him up?
The Right Reverend Jackson stepped on his own nuts. Obama calls out the Black man to step up and Jackson ain’t goin’ for that.
No can do.
They don’t call it the “race” for the White House for nothing. For all his rhetoric and history of “regretfully crude” statements the Rev. Jesse Jackson is more of an enabler to Obama than a helping hand. Mr. Jackson needs to just butt out, Obama has a hard enough task ahead of him as it is. The last thing Obama needs right now is a reminder that he is African-American running for the presidential office by one of his own questioning him and misinterrupting what the man says. And according to certain laws couldn’t what Jackson said (” I want to cut his nuts off “) be taken as a physical threat?.
I wonder if Hillary Clinton and Jesse Jackson will form a new team for Prez and Vice Pres.
They have at least one thing in common.
ROFLMAO!!!
Way to go Jesse!
BREAKING NEWS !
Shortly after Jackson’s nut cutting pronouncement he began to receive anonymous gifts of knives. Before the evening was over he was practically swimming in them
http://www.1branson.com/forum/t36839.html
Jesse’s way has not ever worked. Jesse wants to punish whites and ignore the horrendous social problems relevent to the black community. Obama has to be smiling.
Jesse, you should have cut your own nuts before you had that child with the lady who …..is not your wife.
The only thing wrong with this?
Jackson whispered it.
He SHOULD have announced it from the rooftops.
Obama is turning into a damned “W.A.S.P” right in front of everyone.
Faith based initiatives reward churches for telling other people how to live. Churches do that for free. They just don’t usually throw in a bowl of soup or a warm coat. Looks like Obama wants to PAY for the soup and coats.
And where is the FBI and Secret Service when someone makes a physical threat on a presidential candidate. If it were a normal person, they’d be in jail.
Oh for someone with the balls to say “I said it, I meant it and he should have his nuts cut off.”
Jackson the shakedown artist, what a wussy.
First of all Jackson represents the PAST and Obama represents the FUTURE. Jackson remains stuck in the 60s. The country- about to elect its first black President- has moved on.
Secondly, Jackson has been doing TV and radio interviews for 40 years. I am not buying the “I didn’t know the mic was open” thing. One of the first things you learn about the media is that EVERY mic is an OPEN mic whether you are on the air or not. Jackson knows that. I think it was on purpose.
I’m definitely interested in reading more of your articles!
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