Barack Obama's Bondage To The Jesse Jacksons On The Left

Jackson apologizes for 'crude' comments on Obama

Associated Press
Published on: 07/09/08

CHICAGO — Barack Obama's campaign tried yet again to contain a political storm kicked up by a vocal Chicago supporter as the Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized for crude comments picked up by a live microphone about the Democratic presidential candidate.

Jackson said the "hurtful and wrong" comments came in response to a question from a fellow guest during a break from taping "Fox & Friends" on Sunday. The guest asked about speeches on morality Obama has given at black churches.

Jackson said at a news conference Wednesday that he had said Obama's speeches can come off as speaking down to black people and that there were other important issues to be addressed in the community, such as unemployment, the mortgage crisis and the number of blacks in prison.

He said he was not aware the microphone was still on.

Jackson declined to repeat the comments, but said he decided to apologize publicly after hearing from Fox News that it would air them.

In an interview with The Associated Press earlier Wednesday, Jackson said he didn't remember his exact words, but said he was "very sorry."

The Fox News program "The O'Reilly Factor" aired Jackson's comment Wednesday night, including a slang reference to his wanting to cut off Obama's testicles. The report bleeped out the slang but made clear what Jackson said with subtitles.

"It was not a public speech or a declaration," Jackson said, adding the comments "will not be helpful."

"For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize," he said in a written apology released earlier in the day. "My support for Senator Obama's campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal."

Jackson said he called Obama's campaign to apologize.

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton noted that the Illinois senator grew up without his father and has spoken and written at length about the issues of parental responsibility and fathers participating in their children's lives, and of society's obligation to provide "jobs, justice and opportunity for all.

"He will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other, and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson's apology," Burton said.

Though Jackson supports Obama, the two are not close.

In September, The State newspaper in South Carolina reported that Jackson had said Obama was "acting like he's white" in his response to the arrest of six black juveniles in Jena, La. Jackson disputed the quote.

Jackson's comments sparked something of a family feud. His son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., said he was disappointed by his father's "reckless statements."

"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," the younger Jackson said.

The comments are not the first the elder Jackson has had to explain after believing he was off the record.

In 1984, he called New York City "Hymietown," referring to the city's large

Jewish population. He later acknowledged it was wrong to use the term, but said he did so in private to a reporter.

Jackson is at least the third vocal Chicago supporter to create problems for Obama on the campaign trail.

Obama resigned from Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ during the primaries after a videotape of his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., hit the Internet. On the tape, Wright accused the U.S. government of creating AIDS and is seen shouting "God damn America" during a sermon.

In May, Roman Catholic priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger mocked Obama's then Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton during a guest sermon at Trinity United. Pfleger, who is white, pretended he was Clinton crying over "a black man stealing my show." He later apologized.

On my blogs I told everyone that I attempt to be "fair" but not "balanced". There is no need for me to be balanced because, when it comes to Black themed blogs - there is a 9 to 1 ratio of other sites upon which you can get the "other side", the POPULAR narrative about what happened as the information is received and then spun for the community's consumption.

Regarding "fairness" - here is my "fair" analysis of the situation:

I have stated my position from day one about Barack Obama and his ties to the far left of which Jesse Jackson is one of them. I learned that Barack Obama worked on behalf of the poverty rights group ACORN. I receive the organization's newsletter and I am very familiar with their viewpoints and antics. This group, in my opinion, has a "Social Justice" agenda that, said a different way is confiscatory and anti-capitalistic. If you want to see how "capital vacates a city" to borrow a term from my friends at "Black Commentator" - look no further than the system of thoughts applied by ACORN and those who think like them.

Thus when Barack Obama goes on his speaking tours and "speaks out of turn" with respect to some Cosby-esque comments that he has made - it is clear that he is going to be brushed back from the plate by Jackson and other far left types. The reasons why are clear per Jesse Jacksons' response.

Jesse Jackson, ACORN and the other groups who think as he does translates all of the problems that are under discussion among Black people and "the inner city" into terms of a GOVERNMENT SOLUTION. The people are either a VICTIM of direct government and societal discrimination due to race, income, class or location OR these same people take a "no fault insurance" approach and say "these people are AMERICANS". All Americans have a right to live at the American Standard of Living and not as if they have a 3rd World village in the middle of the richest nation in the world. Thus again you see the "Confiscatory Nationalism" that I spoke of in the past. Where as REBELLION is the milieu in most of their social existence, them having the right to "display their AZZ for all others to kiss" if they so choose - its there right to free speech you know, now that it is time to "true up" as it is noted that whatever they had been allowed to do on their own......it has failed to generate the standard of living that "all Americans" have a right to.

This is essential to the understanding (and the failings) of this particular ideology. In the worst case you have the confluence of a culture which says (or accepts might be a more accurate term) "I don't give a F_____" style of living as a means of having outsiders to "Mind their own business. Why are you worrying about what I do when you all have your own problems". At this point in the jousting match the DEFENDER OF THE STATUS QUO WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY will articulate several problems that the offending person's community has as a means of obtaining pacification that since there are "others in the mud just like us"......there is no need for any ORGANIC initiative to maintain any particular set of standards from within.

After years or decades upon which this set of sensibilities have been allowed to fester - we reach a point of a certain amount of degradation. Here is when we hear Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton/Usual Suspects chime in. The aggregate GDP, Academic Attainment, Crime Rates, Child Rearing and Property Values situation is documented via some study and then - these operatives take the study and MARKETS THE RESULTS. At the end of the day the underlying theme will be "You see! Look at the major gaps between BLACK and WHITE in America. It is AMERICA WHO HAS FALLEN SHORT OF HER PROMISES TO ALL OF HER CITIZENS"............did someone get the license plate number of that truck that hit us?

Do you see the scheme? On the front end the usual suspects have pushed back on any EXTERNAL "moralization" of the antics that were plain to see by all. The newspaper reports, the culture emanating from the area, the review of their academic performance - ALL OF THEM point to a problem within. When someone like Bill O'Reilly dares to make mention of what the stats show - you had better believe that charges that he is a "RACIST" will follow. Or even the standard "You only show the bad things about the Black community. What about the good things that happen on a daily basis? Why don't you show these?"

At the end of the day this overlay force, the "Defenders of the Status Quo WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY" are a NULLIFYING FORCE. Despite the fact that you might be able to get them to admit that the actions which are going on are even below their own standards........you are NOT going to get them to make the case that the PEOPLE THEMSELVES are at fault and that imposing SOCIAL ORDER via any type of MORALISMS (ie "family values") is the proper course of action.

To then hear Barack Obama make "Bill Cosby-like" pronouncements sets the stage for conflict. You do recall that Bill Cosby's timely though not appropriately edited remarks drew a scathing backlash from this same set of Black far left operatives that I am speaking of. When Obama says words in kind they are particularly conflicted with their response. You see - there is no chance in HELL that these groups are going to turn against Obama and torpedo his campaign run. They have too much invested in his presidency already. Besides - WHO ARE THEY GOING TO VOTE FOR? A Republican? Please! They already have their tuxedo and party dresses picked out for Obama's inaugural ball. The airplane tickets have already been purchased so they can get the cheapest rates.

Now about my "fairness". Anyone can search this blog site and see that one of my key criticisms of Barack Obama is that he DOES NOT STAND UP TO HIS FAR LEFT BASE. Where as he is verbose in his attacks on the "right wing", talk radio, Christian evangelicals and Ronald Reagan - calling them out by name.......he is loathed to do the same for his left wing base. I can still only give him partial credit for referring to the group that altered the name of the military commander in Iraq upon his congressional testimony - calling him "General Betrayus". Obama made reference to their antics but did not call out the name "Code Pink" nor did he call them "extreme left wing" as he would not have a problem calling out "The Swiftboat Veterans" or other operatives. I must yield, however, and say that for Barack Obama - this was a major step forward for someone who has voted "present" when it came time to express clarity on an issue that tended to go against your left wing base. In his ambiguity he is able to plead "not guilty" of offending them.

All of this backdrop leads us to the current situation with Jesse Jackson. This is not the first time that the BQPFRC have pushed back on Obama for making a "responsibility" speech or talking down to Black people. He did a speech in Detroit last year in which the same attacks were sent in an attempt to put him back in line.

The core of the problem is that these people want to bear out the SOCIETAL BENEFIT to these people in question based on GOVERNMENT initiative. Since the GOVERNMENT allowed for the prior oppression that "caused it" (in their view) it is the GOVERNMENT therefore that should be the force that fixes their problem.

Again I must note that this claim has not changed among these activists. The only difference is that since the late 60's when they shifted to electoral power as the means of changing their conditions, BACK THEN these benefits were to start flowing once THEY took control of the MAYOR'S offices, the CITY COUNCIL and became sheriffs and police chiefs. You do see the problem right? NOW THEY ARE ALL OF THESE THINGS (or at least has an acceptable Democrat/Progressive in place, regardless of his race) and STILL they have not obtained what they had been striving for. So what is the answer?

That's an easy one. YOU EXPAND YET AGAIN!!! Since your take over of the lower plateau failed to yield the benefits that you thought and since YOU are not going to blame your own movement for falling short on its goals - the only two rational sets of actions to take are to either BLAME YOUR OWN MOVEMENT for being out of alignment in achieving its END GOALS or.........EXPAND to take over the next highest plateau. I have told you previously that the mechanisms for INTROSPECTION simply are not there. Let me be blunt - THERE IS NO IDEOLOGICAL COMPETITION WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY, REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME THAT THE POPULAR ONE YIELDS. This is a sign of the fact that people are committed to a METHODOLOGY rather than their GOALS. The old saying by Henry Ford "You can have any color Model T that you want.....as long as what you want is a black one" rings true among these people, my people, with regards to the IDEOLOGICAL framework that is supposed to lead to their SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC GOALS. If the first donkey has failed them.....find a new donkey and ride on him. You should not make note that the donkey is not the right choice of animal in all situations. You may need a camel who can endure the desert conditions that you must travel through. If your "vehicle" dies along the way.....YOU DIE.

As for Barack Obama - I have learned the hard way that there is a distinction between his SPEECHES and his POLICIES. If you are a bit more accepting of centrist or right of center ideology and are pacified that Obama has SAID something along these lines.......you are gullible and are only performing the "check list" that I often speak about. As for me - I will need to see written proposals that are STRONGLY BACKED by the man in which when it comes time to put the benefits of the CARROTS that he likes to hand out along with the sanction of the STICKS as a means of having a balanced set of management tools to produce favorable behavior - he is not the one.

Let us look at the joint legislation that he sponsored with Evan Bayh of Indiana. Where as Obama stated that the goal was to get fathers to pay up on their child support commitments to their children - my review of the bill showed that 90% of the bill was about social entitlements directed toward these fathers - job training, drug abuse programs, employment assistance.....the marketing centered upon the most ambiguous portion of the program - a more organized child support collection process by which dead beat dads can be tracked.

Again - further analysis. The assumption made here is that the reason why these men are not paying child support is because they are economically destitute. Thus, in a classical liberal "boil the ocean" approach the key means of obtaining the goal of money to the child is to fix the structural obstacles that SOCIETY has placed upon these men. There is no room for the thought that some of these men DO have the means but have chosen to prioritize other matters than their commitment (Sean LaVert comes to mind on that one).

Worse yet you can be sure that there will be no discussion of the CULTURAL and SOCIAL underpinnings which produce a higher occurrence of children had to unwed mothers and the clear high rate of detachment between mother and father when this social order is allowed to grow absent any controlling mechanism - DEFINITELY not from the CHURCH which has learned to accommodate and for certain not from the community activists who claim to have the best interests of the community. Just as another blogger I debated the other day called out the Republicans for exploiting 'family values' while violating them themselves - the key point that she will never come to realize is that in pointing out what the Republicans are doing as a means of NEGATING criticism and judgment upon people who YOU ARE INTERESTED IN.....does not FIX the people YOU ARE INTERESTED IN. It only punishes any outside scrutiny of them. Any objective review of the efforts of the BQPFRC shows clearly that this has been the RESULT of their antics - NOT progression in these areas that need SOCIAL ORDER THE MOST.

In closing, as I listened to an array of Black liberals huddled on stage at a commemoration of Brown v Board 50 years later - their grand plan to fix what ails Black people resided in getting vast sums of money from the Federal government (I told you that their local economic order does not allow them to ever afford this) in order to do a massive reordering of the cities in which these people live. As I stepped back and listened to what they were saying - I could not help but to see these people as AFRICAN MISSIONARIES and COLONIALISTS in their thought process. There are a bunch of "savages" who's own actions will never have them "civilized" in the order of what America is known for. Give US the mandate and the cash money to build up the physical plant around them and THEN much of the human problems that you see will disappear. This is a crude analysis for the sake of brevity but I believe that I have captured the essence of what they were proposing.

WHAT IS MISSING FROM THIS? The point that is rarely talked about is "WHAT SHOULD SOCIETY EXPECT FROM THE VICTIMS IN SUPPORT OF THEIR OWN SALVATION?". If there is one key flaw to the strategy of the Black Quasi-Socialist Progressive Fundamentalist Racism Chaser it is this one. He is unable to sell the dream to the Black man that he wants to help BUT ALSO tell him what HE MUST DO to make it happen. To be clear their "what you must do" shows up in Tavis Smiley's "Contract With Black America" (or whatever it was called). This was a POSITION PAPER telling Black people what policies we must support. Again I ask any person living in a subdivision to go take a look at their covenance rules. This document sets the RULES that are necessary for a civilized and peaceful community, where property values increase and conflict is reduced. It tells the people WHAT THEY MUST DO IN ORDER TO BE A NEIGHBOR IN GOOD STANDING. The differences between these two documents could not be greater.

It is the very proclivity for NON-JUDGMENTALISM that is so often spouted on stage by these same operatives that is the root of the "impotence" that Jesse Jackson referred to as he made the reference to Barack Obama's reproductive tools. In the end these people are interested in ENFORCING IDEOLOGICAL UNITY than they are in doing what is necessary to achieve the CORE GOALS that are to be obtained from their methodology and tactics.

Nothing is going to radically change until this POPULAR ideology is challenged by a group of people who are more committed to the GOALS than to the METHODOLOGY and thus are BREAK RANKS and take the assaults that will no doubt follow. WHERE DO I SIGN UP?