Posted on 06/10/2008 5:41:49 AM PDT by JRochelle
Imagine, if you will, that former Arkansas Gov. Mike "majored in miracles" Huckabee had won the Republican nominating contest and in the rapture of exhuberance at the historic moment, a Republican congressman who is also the son of a famous religious right clergyman exulted that "the event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance."
That would certainly get widespread attention in the MSM, being so over-the-top and messianic pronouncement about a Republican presidential figure. Not so much when the hallelujah chorus is coming from the son of famous left-wing preacher Jesse Jackson. (h/t Michele at Reformed Chicks Blabbing)
Aside from some blogs picking up on the item as originally reported by Politico's Josephine Hearn on June 5, I'm aware of no media scrutiny about Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s hosannas song of praise over fellow Illinois Democrat Sen. Barack Obama (emphasis mine):
On Capitol Hill, as across the country Wednesday, African-Americans reflected on Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's historic rise as the first black presidential nominee to lead a major political party. They noted that only a few decades ago, African-Americans were fighting across large swaths of the South for basic human rights, hardly pondering the possibility that one of them might soon lead the country.
Many black lawmakers said they were elated at Obama's victory.
Many said they never thought such a day would come.
[...]
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son of the one-time presidential contender, said Obama's victory overwhelmed him.
"I cried all night. I'm going to be crying for the next four years," he said. "What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation's political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance."
You should offer a large trash bag for the barf people are going to spew at the Jackson remark. LOL
Keep up the hype. It will all come crashing down under the glare of the campaign.
Ye verily, the O-Bots shall rejoice.
****Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son of the one-time presidential contender, said Obama’s victory overwhelmed him. “I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years,” he said.****
We will all be crying with you Bubba!
Race relations?? They were in better shape before Obama’s campaign. He and Hilary have almost managed to destroy the progress that regular, working black & white colleagues & neighbors accomplished with simple decency and civility.
Thankfully, true friendship and respect for one another will survive this dark cycle. Michael Steele is the future.
This is apparent when questions are poised how Obama is going to pull off all these liberal ideas that have failed in the past and the answer is, "I believe in Barak".
I don’t think so. Its going to be Mrs. Obama in the Whitehouse.
Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once. William Shakespeare
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius
I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it. Ralph Connor
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. Epictetus
The coward despairs. Euripides
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. Euripides
A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. Ambrose Bierce
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears. John Christian Bovee
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. Jeremy Collier
We will no longer need embryonic stem cell research because Pres. Obama will just heal them with his benign magnificence.
bttt
Yes.
Yes it is.
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), son of the one-time presidential contender, said Obama's victory overwhelmed him. The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance."
Sorry JJ Jr, there's already a chapter in the Bible on Obama, Revelation 13
So there IS a silver lining to every dark cloud.
“Keep up the hype. It will all come crashing down under the glare of the campaign.”
Glare? Glare? You mean angelic light, don’t you?
The Obamessiah will never, ever be shown in a bad light by the MSM.
Add that with the petulant right who won’t vote McCain, and you had better get used to the reality.
President Obama.
It has kept our family sane in hard times and helped produce two grown up kids I'm proud of!
Bareback speaks !
“And today’s reading is from The Book of Wonder, where it says —
‘A boy grew up in
hardtime mississipi
surrounded by four walls
that were not pretty
His parents (thats two peoples) prO-vide him
with love n’ affection
just to keep him strong
movinintherightdirection...’”
(With apologies to Richard Pryor.)
and eight years of Reagan for every four years of Carter.
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