Posted on 07/09/2008 4:27:55 PM PDT by The_Republican
Whatever the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. said in a live microphone on Fox News, it was really, really bad, and none other than his own son seems to know it.
"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," wrote Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), an Obama campaign co-chairman, in a statement sent out after word began spreading that his father had said something crude and deeply offensive.
The bold-faced text was his own. "Instead of tearing others down, Barack Obama wants to build the country up and bring people together so that we can move forward, together -- as one nation. The remarks like those uttered on Fox by Reverend Jackson do not advance the campaign's cause of building a more perfect Union."
The exact words have yet to be aired, but Rev. Jackson was near a microphone that he assumed was off when he disparaged Obama's tendency to tell African American audiences, especially black men, they needed to turn off their children's television sets, attend to their homework and keep their families together.
Rev. Jackson was contrite, ahead of an expected broadcast of his words on Fox tonight. In a statement from his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, he wrote, "For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama's campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
I’m confused by all this....
Who is the “house slave” or overseer in this case? Jackson or Jackson? Or perhaps Obama? Who is tryin’ to keep whom on the plantation?
" . . . remarks like those uttered on Fox by Reverend Jackson do not advance the campaign's cause of building a more perfect Union." (emphasis added)
Can someone tell me why?
The thing is that Obama would still have to have a pair to cut off - and Michelle took care of that a loooong time ago . . . .
Democrats seem to be obsessed with Obama’s nuts.
Hildabeast made a big issue out of it and now Jackson......
Personal I think they are nut jobs.
Even his apology is asinine.
He wants the gubmint to be the father in black families.
ROTFLMAO!!!
See the youtube link in post #43. We didn't get to hear the worst of it according to O'Reilly.
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