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For a Soaring Political Career (Jesse Jackson, Jr.), Uncertain Turns
NYT ^ | July 13, 2012 | MONICA DAVEY

Posted on 07/13/2012 7:09:13 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

CHICAGO — A few years ago, the political career of Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. was soaring.

His appeal had long since crossed race and class lines — a Barack Obama before anyone heard of Barack Obama — and he seemed destined for a political future that could reach higher and wider than that of his father, the civil rights leader and former presidential candidate whose name he shared.

But Mr. Jackson’s prospects have tumbled precipitously since the end of 2008. Most recently, Mr. Jackson, 47, has been absent from Congress since June 10, and in the last few weeks his office has released three brief statements, which seemed to set off as many questions as they answered. The latest, on Wednesday night, said that he was receiving “intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility for a mood disorder” and is expected to recover.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blago; chicagoway; jackson; jessejackson; jessejacksonjr; jjj; jjjr; jr
The tone of this article is astonishing--and it would be laughable, if it weren't so pathetic.

The author sounds like she's mourning the downfall of a promising politician whom she had such hopes for, and for whom she expected a meteoric rise in the pattern of Obama.

She writes with such reverence and lavish praise about JJJ and his grifter father that one would be tempted to think she was in love with them.

1 posted on 07/13/2012 7:09:18 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
For a Soaring Political Career
For a Souring Political Career
2 posted on 07/13/2012 7:15:37 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He would be nothing except for Daddy


3 posted on 07/13/2012 7:15:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Where’s my Bud franchise ?


4 posted on 07/13/2012 7:24:13 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
His appeal had long since crossed race and class lines

OMFG, what a crock.

5 posted on 07/13/2012 7:29:45 AM PDT by Poison Pill (Take your silver lining and SHOVE IT!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Your dad is not a shake down artist...Jesse Sr should be in jail


6 posted on 07/13/2012 7:31:08 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
She writes with such reverence and lavish praise about JJJ and his grifter father that one would be tempted to think she was in love with them.

Well, JJ, Sr. has been caught spreading his seed around. Maybe she has similar fantasies about JJJ . . .

7 posted on 07/13/2012 7:49:02 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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I was actually SHOCKED to find this on a Chicago media website:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Jesses-Girl-138850889.html


8 posted on 07/13/2012 7:56:17 AM PDT by nascarnation
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Why do you think they call it dope?


9 posted on 07/13/2012 7:59:15 AM PDT by edcoil (It is not over until I win.)
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To: oh8eleven

I thought he was on medical leave in a country that doesn’t have extradition to the US


10 posted on 07/13/2012 8:20:28 AM PDT by molson209
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Monica Davey
@monicadavey1
Chicago Bureau Chief, The New York Times

http://twitter.com/monicadavey1/

Monica Davey;@monicadavey1
Chicago Mayor @RahmEmanuel calls for patience for Jesse Jackson Jr. “Congress is going to be there,” Tribune reports http://trib.in/NaZwlZ

10 Jul Monica Davey;@monicadavey1
RT @WBEZ:@RevJJackson on his son’s condition: “He is regaining his strength, and that part will be left to him and the doctors to describe.”


11 posted on 07/13/2012 8:39:41 AM PDT by kcvl
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“For a Soaring Political Career...”

LMAO

Rod Blagjevich sends his love....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQKam4Ox6h0


12 posted on 07/13/2012 11:44:46 AM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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Blagjevich=Blagojevich


13 posted on 07/13/2012 11:45:54 AM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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