Race Baiters At Each Other's Throats

[cwo_ghwebb]

Jesse Jackson's wanting to castrate Obama stirred up a hornet's nest, including a rebuke from his own son.

Jackson's Jibe at Obama Signals Rift

The Reverend Jesse Jackson's disparaging remarks about Senator Obama signal a rift between the two trailblazing black Chicago-based Democratic presidential candidates and are drawing a rapid wave of condemnation from prominent African Americans, including Rev. Jackson's own son.

A political firestorm erupted yesterday when word spread that Rev. Jackson had crudely criticized the presumptive Democratic nominee over his recent speeches at black churches, in which he admonished parents to take more responsibility for their children's future. He made the comments shortly before taping an interview on "Fox News Sunday," and he said yesterday he did not know the microphone was on.

"See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based ... Barack, he's talking down to black people," Rev. Jackson said in a whisper to an executive at the UnitedHealth Group, Reed Tuckson, a fellow guest on the Fox program. Rev. Jackson used a crude reference that suggested he would like to perform an orchiectomy on Mr. Obama.

Still, the reports of his original remarks drew a sharp rebuke from other black leaders, the most extraordinary of which came from his son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois. "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama," Mr. Jackson, a national co-chairman of the Obama campaign, said in a statement e-mailed to reporters in which the first sentence was set in bold face. "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."

Reverend Al Sharpton also criticized Rev. Jackson, saying his remarks were "most unfortunate."

And the best paragraph from the article!

He added that the comments also highlight the generational gap between Rev. Jackson and Mr. Obama, whose campaign has largely eschewed the kind of racial politics that many voters associate with Rev. Jackson. "It reveals that Jesse Jackson's time on the stage has come to an end," Mr. Meyers said. "He is a dinosaur, and he doesn't get it."

Jackson's Jibe at Obama Signals Rift

[ImnoMensa]

Gee, people who never worked a day in their lives criticising another man who never worked a day in his life.

[willie]

an orchiectomy ........I gotta remember that one.

[chernmax]

Al: What did you do?
Jessy: I ripped NObama's nuts off!!!
Al: Most unfortunate...
Jessy: F Y too...