Clinton advisor Harold Ickes throws Jesse Jackson into the mix again:
“We have two really strong and very good candidates. This party has been blessed … to have a woman who, I think will be the next president of the United States [and] to have a powerful spokesman in the form of Sen. Obama and he is, that’s one of the reasons I supported Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988, I thought we needed a strong, powerful candidate, a black candidate, running for president,†Ickes said.
Most will see these comments as another attempt to denigrate Barack Obama as a “black candidate” rather than a candidate who happens to be black (or half-black). But Ickes also may be laying the foundation to position Hillary Clinton as this year’s Jesse Jackson.
(h/t Memeorandum.)
Certainly Ickes is remindering just how far JJ got in the 80s.
Wow! Transcendant ignorance of his own blinding condescension.
Bravo, Harold! Keep up the fair work!
Hill’s got Ickes. Barry’s got Plouffe.
Sounds like medical maladies, no?
Kelly; Or a very strange remake of a Felini movie…
An Icky Plouffe – sounds like a sore with running puss.
Jetstream Jesse – Has he been seen around Columbia, trying to shake them down about Madonna Constantine?
transcendent ignorance – great phrase, BJ.
Oh brother…
“The Republican attack machine has proven that it’s willing to do and say anything,” said Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran slow to answer the Swift boat attacks on his war record. “If you have any indication that there is something out there that can cut, you have to go at it.”
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“Look, our mistake was not understanding it. Our mistake was that we didn’t answer it,” Kerry said, referring to the damaging summer of 2004. “I am confident that will not be repeated by any candidate.”
I still haven’t seen YOUR records, John-John.
Here’s an idea – how about you shut the fuck up and if we want your opinion we’ll slap it out of you…
Let me guess, BJT, Plouffe>/i> is the weird clown and Ickes is the fat prostitute?
Jesse Jackson was never no Senator though. He never got elected to nothing I don’t think. That’s a key difference. Also Jesse is retarded.
errant tag alert!
RACists ! Retardedist !