Jesse 'The Racist' Jackson calling blacks names

Despicable.




Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'


By Mike Soraghan - 11/18/09 05:42 PM ET
The Hill


The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

The remark stirred a murmur at the reception, held by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation as part of a series of events revolving around the 25th anniversary of Jackson’s run for president. Several CBC members were in attendance, including Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who’d introduced Jackson.


Davis, who is running for governor, is the only black member of Congress from Alabama.

He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month.

Davis referred to Jackson’s 1988 run for president in a statement, issued through his office, that said he would not engage Jackson on his criticism.

“One of the reasons that I like and admire Rev. Jesse Jackson is that 21 years ago he inspired the idea that a black politician would not be judged simply as a black leader,” Davis’s statement said. “The best way to honor Rev. Jackson’s legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race.”

Jackson said later that he "didn't call anybody by name and I won't."

He added that he wasn't saying that black lawmakers must vote a certain way. Instead, they should vote the interests of the people in their districts, and he said the healthcare bill would help Alabama because it's one of the poorest states in the country.

"The poorest people need healthcare protection," Jackson said. "They have the highest infant mortality and the lowest life expectancy. They're dying from lack of access."

Other members of the CBC found no fault in Jackson's words. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) was in the audience. He called Jackson's criticism of Davis "accurate," but said he did not hear Jackson say "You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man."

"If it is an issue that disproportionately impacts black folks, race has to be considered," Cleaver said. Jackson, he added, "is expected by his constituency to call balls and strikes."

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) called the remarks "vintage Jesse Jackson," but said Davis's vote against healthcare was consistent with a voting record more conservative than many CBC members.

"Artur Davis has a more conservative constituency," Waters said. "Since he's running for governor of Alabama, he reflects an even more conservative constituency."

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) said each man was doing what he considered the right thing.

"People have a right to vote their constituency, and people have a right to speak their conscience," Jackson-Lee said. "Both happened."

Davis’s Democratic primary opponent, Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, highlighted Davis’s status as the lone African-American vote against the bill.

“He was the only Black Caucus member to vote against it. I don’t get it,” Sparks said last week, according to The Associated Press. Sparks is white.

Davis said he voted against the healthcare bill because "House leadership's approach is not the best we can do." He said he preferred a version passed by the Senate Finance Committee because it reduces subsidization of the healthcare industry, taxes high-value health plans instead of wealthy people, and is more effective in getting employers to help with health coverage.

Davis has countered that Sparks’s position on healthcare has changed over time, saying he’s being “deliberately dishonest.”

The primary will be June 1. All of the GOP candidates for governor have been critical of the healthcare legislation, according to the AP.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Jesse Jackson: The Go To Guy for all things useful

Jesse Jackson concerned about Bush's last days

By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
November 16, 2008

BALTIMORE – The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Sunday he is concerned about executive orders from President Bush in his last few months in office and the effect they could have on the incoming administration.

"Bush is signing away consumer and environmental laws. I mean they're running amok, you know," Jackson said.

Some Democrats in Congress have criticized several federal regulations enacted in the waning months of the Bush administration and are discussing whether some should be repealed when President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January.

The civil rights leader and former presidential hopeful also criticized the federal bailout of the financial industry and called for the outgoing president to help the ailing automotive industry.

"It's a huge economic crisis being compounded by this sense of ideology," Jackson said after delivering a sermon at Bethel AME church in Baltimore.

Jackson, who won several state primaries as a Democrat in the 1984 and 1988 presidential races, said his relationship with Obama is a "great one."

Jackson apologized to Obama earlier this year for a crude comment in which he said the Illinois senator appeared to be talking down to black Americans. Jackson said the comments were private and he didn't know they were being recorded. Jackson's son later said he was disappointed by his father's "reckless statements."

In addition to criticizing the bailout, which Jackson said was helping banks but not homeowners facing foreclosure, he said the Bush administration was increasing the cost of the Iraq war by awarding contracts "so even if you pulled every soldier out you would still be paying billions a month more for some time to come."

[He makes a statement with no evidence or facts, simply words spit forth that have no facts or evidence but now become part of the dialogue used by others based on ...]


Asked how Bush could help the incoming administration, Jackson replied, "A: Stop these damaging executive orders that satisfy ideology but not people," and commit to helping the auto industry.

Jackson said unemployment is continuing to climb and the auto industry contributes millions of jobs to the economy.

"All of that talk of bipartisanship begins now," Jackson said. "And the new president deserves his vision to be implemented immediately."

Aides to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have said she will consult congressional leaders and the incoming Obama administration on the best approach toward Bush's regulations.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto has said the president is protecting the interests of the nation, but Democrats in Congress and officials with the incoming administration have indicated they will seek to reverse some of the decisions.

Jackson refused to comment on whether his son, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois, would be chosen to fill Obama's vacant Senate seat.

"That (decision) is not mine to make and I do not feel it's appropriate to comment on that," Jackson said during a press conference after the service, which was attended by Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon.

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This man cannot say anything truthful nor useful without promoting his own agenda of divisiveness and sheer ignorance.

A) Obama doesn't deserve to have his vision implemented immediately or at all. When Reagan won, Bush or Bush 43 ... no one from your side Mr. Jackson said - well, they deserve to have their agenda implemented immediately! What are you? An idiot or a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool?

B) You make reference to Iraq, like you know something. Amazing. What are you trolling for? An administration position? You will not get it, not this week, not next week, you will not get it next year, you will not get near the White House, not now, not ever.

C) This whole Executive Order thing - good lord, another bogeyman. OBAMA COULD rescind EVERY EXECUTIVE ORDER if he WANTS to. So Mr. Jackson, you don't need to worry, in fact, opening your mouth is a waste of energy if Obama rescinds them all. No worry, no problem, not an issue. Why stress.

By the way, you ignorant hypocrite - I did not hear you say, nor read a statement by you in 2000, when Bill Clinton, by Executive Order, opened our medical records to inspection. The most private thing about you - made public. Never heard you squeak. Never heard you yell. Never heard a word from you. Can you spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E?

I can.














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