Jesse Jackson Touts “Powerful Case” For Hillary To Be Hussein’s Running Mate
The Swamp:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said today that Sen. Hillary Clinton has made “a powerful case” for her candidacy for vice president.
Sen. Barack Obama should take his time choosing a running mate, Jackson said in an interview with the Associated Press today, but Clinton offers some major advantages.
“As he surveys the field, it must be someone who is compatible with him philosophically, someone who is loyal to his agenda and someone who brings a constituency that matters and the capacity to become the next president, as the Constitution requires should disaster strike,” Jackson said, and Clinton meets those requirements. “She may not be the only one who does, but she certainly does.
“She starts with 18 million votes,” he said. “She starts having gained a following among Latinos and she has substantial support among African Americans. … Women will be looking to her place in the scheme of things.”
During the primaries, Jackson’s wife, Jacqueline Jackson, had been a supporter of Clinton, while Jackson backed Obama. And of course, Jesse Jackson had waged his own campaign for president - winning the Democratic Party’s caucuses in South Carolina in 1988, a fact that did not go overlooked by former President Bill Clinton when Obama carried South Carolina’s party primary this year - Clinton’s dismissive view of that victory stirring some backlash over the racial overtones.
Jackson, asked how he and his wife were discussing Obama’s clinching of the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, said, “My wife is ecstatic about his victory.”
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You GO Jesse!
The idea of Bill Clinton roaming the ‘Halls of Power’ with absolutely nothing to do (for four years) is fucking hysterical.
(send the pizza and interns!)
June 7th, 2008 at 5:07 pmCaptain Osmosis speaks again.
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June 7th, 2008 at 6:03 pmnoun
a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane.
Thank you, Jesse(I extort money from whoever is stupid enough to pay me)Jackson. What a fucking loser. Last minute grandstander.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:27 am