By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
So Sen. Barack Obama quickly accepts Jesse Jackson's apology for the reverend's remarks that "Barack's been talking down to black people ... I want to cut his nuts off." What's wrong with this picture?
For one thing, Jackson has a shameless excuse for why the remark even made it on the air, saying he thought the Fox News microphone a few inches from his mouth wasn't on.
"It was very private," Jackson said of his remark.
Oh, so Jackson didn't mind saying it -- or the thought behind it -- but only that the remark actually became public?
This is the kind of gaffe that the old-school Jesse Jackson would have gone wild over. He would have sought out every microphone in sight to denounce such a degrading comment.
And probably for good reasons, too.
Yet Obama turns the other cheek. Why? Partly, it wouldn't look good for two different generations of black leaders to be publicly quarreling with each other over this matter.
Obama wants to look presidential, after all.
Besides, Jackson's son -- Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois -- blasted away at his father.
"I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Rev. Jackson's reckless statements about Sen. Barack Obama," said Jackson Jr., who's one of Obama's top campaign leaders.
Of course, Rev. Jackson felt obliged to make it clear he supports Obama. And he was quickly trying to do damage control on his remarks.
Jackson said he told a fellow panelist on the Fox News show that Obama "comes down as speaking down to black people."
That doesn't, of course, exactly explain away the "nuts" part of Jackson's comment.







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Same old Blast on White Folk!
eurasmus talks about Sen. Obama stating from his speech that some Blacks are needing to take more responsibility in their families lives and of course, he must add that lots of Whites need to do that also. Whites are not the subject nor the problem to any extent that Obama was referring to, so your bash on Whites to be all nice and PC was uncalled for, but expected.
Lost Souls
Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader are remarkably similar. They are trying desperately to remain relevant in a world that no longer appreciates or even remembers their accomplishments. John Steinbeck sums it up very nicely in The Red Pony. He devotes a passage to the American pioneers who braved the wilderness, crossed the continent, and now curse the ocean because they can't go any further. "We carried life out here...and I was the leader. Then we came down to the sea and it was done." The old man smiled. "There's no place to go. There's the ocean to stop you. There's a line of old men along the shore hating the ocean because it stopped them."
Sour Grapes -------
With Obama deserting his far-left fan club to dumbfound or capture some middle of the road swing voters, Jesse Jackson's less than complimentary off-cuff response was interesting. -- All Jesse needed to deflate the party of change myth was to throw in an “Uncle Tom” accusation with his more colorful musing of Obama's flip-flopping!
One of the few benefits the country can realize from Barrack’s presidential bid is that he will continue to make Jackson and Al Sharpton look like a couple of aging, rabble-rousing political ghosts while welcoming their support!
Keep it up Rogue!
A visit from the Secret Service would do you some good, you moronic gasbag.
Do you think
Jesse is alone in expressing this sentiment regarding Obama? Somehow, I don't think so.....