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Jesse Jackson = Sister Soulja. Who knew?
For all the prognosticators out there waiting for Obama's "Sister
Soulja (?sp?)" moment, where he comes out and slaps down the
conventional left-wing/progressive element of the party, in hopes of
broadening his appeal to Centrists and Reagan Democrats, that time was
today, with Reverend Jackson's impressively revealing "snippet"
captured via "live mic". It was so far beyond common decency that, to
be effective for Obama, it requires no formal reply from the part of
the campaign. In one ill-timed comment, the Reverend has drawn a line
in the sand separating the old, post-MLK, ineffective entitlement
movement from the politics of now, a "new" Democratic message of
personal responsibility (which clearly Rev. Jackson does not think the
black community can own up to), and responsible government support. I
can only think it will help.
Sorry if this is duplicated, I'm a poor blogger.











Comments (3)
I doubt Obama will work that way. Typically he will just say something like "we disagree" and that Jackson was inartful in how he expressed it and move on.
Politics often works by identifying a victim who no one or only few will support and then piling on. Essentially kicking people while they are down. Rather remarkably I haven't ever seen Obama do that but I haven't followed him closely.
July 10, 2008 7:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
I suppose the idea of this post is that somehow Jackson's slur will work automatically to Obama's advantage by distancing him in voter's minds from activists like Jackson. It's not clear if the writer thinks the remark will get Obama in tighter with white voters while not hurting him with black voters, or exactly how the remark is supposed to play to Obama's benefit. Could be it will. Could also be that the remark is an honest reaction to an outsider lecturing the black community on moral responsibility after riding the black churches to the nomination.
July 10, 2008 8:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Could be that, as ever, you have nothing useful to contribute.
July 10, 2008 11:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
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