Ever since this story first hit the news, pundits have been lining up to announce that this "gaffe" has helped Sen. Obama in a big way. According to Bloomberg.com, a professor at George Mason University, Mark Rozell, said that the Jackson comments help Obama by emphasizing his call for personal responsibility. Another professor, Steffen Schmidt of Iowa State University, said, "This helps Obama make the case that he's not a 'black' leader but just a Democratic candidate for president." And yet another college type, one Professor David Schultz of Hamline University in St. Paul, was quoted in the Bloomberg piece as saying, "Obama should give Jackson...an award for helping his campaign with white voters."
Is it possible that Jesse Jackson is such a media tramp that he'd actually fabricate a situation like this?
You'd better believe he is.
He may not like the fact that Obama has clearly distanced himself from the race-mongering "reverend." But I can promise you that Jesse Jackson isn't going to campaign on behalf of John McCain any time soon. As a self-described, self-proclaimed voice of black Americans, Jackson surely wants Obama to win. So this could have been a devious effort to get middle-of-the-roaders that he knows don't like him to feel better about voting for Obama in November.
For a man who admitted to spitting in white people's food when he was a young man in Greenville, South Carolina, I wouldn't put anything past him.
The final proof that I may be right came when Jackson's own son, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., did some verbal castrating of his own. "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Rev. Jackson's reckless statements about Sen. Barack Obama," he said. "Rev. Jackson?" You mean dear old Dad? Do you think Jesse Jackson, Jr. would be a U.S. congressman were it not for his father?
I can't find a single instance where Jesse, Jr. ever ripped his father to shreds this way. Not one. Move over, Hillary. I think we've got a vast left-wing conspiracy going on here.
People who are desperate for Barack Obama to win the presidency are capable of practically anything. When I talk with callers to my radio show who are Obama supporters, there is a fervor and robot-like support that is chilling. They don't seem to care what Obama says, what he stands for (or doesn't stand for), or even that he can't seem to latch onto a consistent position on just about everything.
They just want him to win.
They need him to win.
And I'll bet the farm that if Jesse Jackson can score some votes for Obama by making a complete jackass out of himself on national TV, well, that's a small price to pay for a President Barack Obama.