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DChapman
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| Quote: | Jesse Jackson, the fat lady is singing
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Posted: July 17, 2008
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© 2008
A "jealous rage," Fox's Geraldo Rivera called it.
Before taping a "Fox & Friends" segment, Rev. Jesse Jackson, with his microphone on, sat next to another man. Turning to him, Jackson, speaking softly, launched into an attack on Barack Obama. "Barack, he's talking down to black people on this faith-based …" said Jackson. "I want to cut (Obama's) nuts off."
Even before Fox aired the remarks, Jackson appeared on CNN and offered a pre-emptive apology. "I said something I felt regret for," said Jackson. "It was crude. It was very private and very much a sound bite – and a live mike. And so I feel – I find no comfort in it. I find no joy in it. So I immediately called the senator's campaign to send my statement of apology to repair the harm or hurt that this may have caused his campaign, because I support it unequivocally."
But why did he say it?
Yes, Jackson ran for the presidency in 1984, and even more credibly in 1988. Geraldo, as do others, suggest the green-eyed monster – envy. And what about a possible personal dislike of Obama? When the senator first announced his candidacy, Jackson withheld his endorsement. Jackson later criticized Obama because, in Jackson's opinion, Obama only mildly weighed in on the Jena Six "scandal." Jackson accused Obama of "acting like he's white." Still, Jackson's outburst seems too over-the-top, far too angry.
Did Obama incur Jackson's wrath because of the candidate's shifts and flip-flops on a number of issues – Iraq, Iran, FISA, NAFTA, the death penalty, abortion, the Second Amendment, the disposition of Jerusalem, the abandonment of his former pastor (Rev. Wright) and his church of 20 years, and public financing of election campaigns? Apparently not. Jackson made no reference to Obama's newfound positions.
What about differences of opinion between Jackson and Obama on policy and ideology? No, since both denounce the Bush administration, oppose the Iraq war, support universal health care, want taxes raised on the so-called rich, and seek a playing-field-leveling governmental role in education, job training and welfare.
What about Obama's condemnation of men who irresponsibly breed children and then abandon them? Obama, a few weeks earlier, before a predominantly black church audience in Chicago, said: "We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. That doesn't just make you a father. What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child. Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. … Don't just sit in the house and watch 'SportsCenter' all weekend long. … (Kids should) replace the video game or the remote control with a book once in a while."
Now we're getting warm.
Recall that Jackson, while mentoring then-President Bill Clinton over his Monica Lewinsky problems, brought a co-worker to the White House – his mistress. Jackson even took a photo of the visibly pregnant woman and the president in the Oval Office. So Obama's comment, which describes the destructive and destabilizing phenomenon that black actor/comedian/activist Bill Cosby calls "unwed fathers," perhaps struck too close to home for Jackson.
But there's more.
Obama's success suggests that America edges closer and closer to Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of evaluating people based on content of character rather than color of skin. Obama, on the 42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the civil rights march in Selma, Ala., said: "The previous generation, the Moses generation, pointed the way. They took us 90 percent of the way there. We still got that 10 percent in order to cross over to the other side."
Even Jackson, in one of his "nuts" apologies, said of Obama: "He's running the last lap of a 54-year marathon. He is running that race. I am a part of that race."
So, again, why the ugly, demeaning remark?
Jackson, and his race-card-waving cohorts, derive stature, power, significance and self-enrichment by claiming that racism remains a serious problem in America. After complaining about the lack of minority beer distributorships, for example, Jackson's sons ended up with a lucrative Anheuser-Busch distributorship in Chicago. Author Kenneth Timmerman, in his book "Shakedown," describes the Jackson modus operandi – playing the race card for self-enrichment, as well as that of friends and family.
Rather than display pleasure at America's obvious progress, or pride in his role in getting us there, the anachronistic Jackson now morphs into a shrinking, petulant, self-pitying "leader" – with little left to lead.
Good news for America; bad news for Jackson.
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"LALALALALA!!!"
"MEMEMEMEME!!!"  |
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Richard Miller
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| lsgh2 wrote: | "LALALALALA!!!"
"MEMEMEMEME!!!" |
Lsgh2 - can you, for once in your life, say something useful? The content of the spam that I get in my ten-year-old yahoo email account makes more sense than you.
I mean, seriously, you remind me of the kid who gets slapped by his friends every time he opens his mouth. For someone who says nothing that makes sense whatsoever, you do nothing but cause trouble here.
Quite frankly, I could give two sh**s whether or not you mean well, because I'm getting sick and tired of the pure idiocy that I'm reading in your posts. |
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void.
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DChapman
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| Richard Miller wrote: | Lsgh2 - can you, for once in your life, say something useful? The content of the spam that I get in my ten-year-old yahoo email account makes more sense than you.
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I agree 100% with Richard here. lsgh2, either make meaningful contributions here or go some place else, please.
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| lsgh2 wrote: | "LALALALALA!!!"
"MEMEMEMEME!!!" |
Is this supposed to be the fat lady "singing"?  |
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| The fact that this fool posted that picture shows that he might not be as screwed up in the head as I thought - I think he knows what he's doing... whatever the hell it may be. |
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| It has been said that trying to understand what motivates crazy people will drive you crazy. Not that I'm calling anyone crazy...just something that popped into my head |
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| mixedmom wrote: | | lsgh2 wrote: | "LALALALALA!!!"
"MEMEMEMEME!!!" |
Is this supposed to be the fat lady "singing"? |
YUP!
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| anonymouse wrote: | | It has been said that trying to understand what motivates crazy people will drive you crazy. Not that I'm calling anyone crazy...just something that popped into my head |
GOOD! |
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lsgh2
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| Richard Miller wrote: | | The fact that my Master posted that picture shows that he might not be as screwed up in the head as I thought - I think he knows what he's doing...I shall follow him ALL the days of my life. |
thanx, bruh!
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for the record, i attempt to inject humour in some of my posts;
like any comic, my level of success varies...
if i offended Richard or anyone else, I sincerely apologize....peace.
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| Richard Miller wrote: | | Dear LSGH, I am an idiot. Please forgive because I'm a hater. I am pissed because I am out of touch w/my Indian roots. |
"FUCK YOU, YA LITTLE BITCH!!"  |
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Thank God - the smoking gun needed to prove that this fool is nothing but a troll who needs to be expelled has finally come out.
Mods, will action be taken on him? |
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DChapman
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| Posted: Thu 24 Jul 2008 13:25 Post subject: |
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| lsgh2 wrote: | | Richard Miller wrote: | | Dear LSGH, I am an idiot. Please forgive because I'm a hater. I am pissed because I am out of touch w/my Indian roots. |
"FUCK YOU, YA LITTLE BITCH!!" |
I think you need some time off. |
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DChapman
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| Richard Miller wrote: | Thank God - the smoking gun needed to prove that this fool is nothing but a troll who needs to be expelled has finally come out.
Mods, will action be taken on him? |
You bet. |
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[quote="lsgh2"]"LALALALALA!!!"
"MEMEMEMEME!!!" :lol:[/quote]
I agree 100 % w/ you.
Everybody knows I cannot stand Jesse Jackson and Al and the rest of those racist bigots who lurch and feed off of Blacks and push and carry a race card.
(Now, Isgh, I did not like you playing into some hands here and cursing them out and getting yourself in the timeout corner and letting them look like saints.) |
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