"It's a good day for America", proclaimed Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), and truly it is. I may not agree with Obama's policies but his candidacy (whether you like it or not) is about something more than politics, and we shouldn't lose sight of that. But there's always one person who takes it a stage too far, more often than not, that person happens to be Jesse Jackson. Here's what he said:
"I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years. 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.”
What I love though, is how it's followed up with a comment that it's obviously not about race:
"I hope the least historical thing about Barack Obama is his being black and the most historical is that he solved our health care problems, ended the war in Iraq and made life better for Americans".
Hear, hear...but isn't it a little difficult for him to not be just the black President when you're saying that his nomination is the single most extraordinary event in the country's 232 year political history.
Full story at Politico
(hat tip: Nel)
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