I am not a Jesse Jackson fan at all but don't think what he said was moronic. He basically said blacks are not going to take well to being lectured by Obama. IMO that's valid, and doesn't even have anything to do with blackness.

To me the most interesting part was the pompous statement released by Jesse Jr. It sounded like he was talking about the President of Estonia or something.

>Yeah, even his son essentially called him a moron.
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>>I watched two interviews with Jackson this morning. In both, he turned his 'unfortunate comments' over to 'Obama has been stressing religion-based support and programs and I feel that religion-based programs fall short of meeting the needs of lower-income families and those who have lost their jobs and rather than those programs, our country needs government-based programs.' (Not word for word, but the understanding I garnered from his comments)
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>>>I think what is most interesting is Sharpton's response that it is most unfortunate, blah, blah, blah. Isn't this the guy that normally calls for the heads of anyone who says anything disparaging about blacks? I was in NYC when he was first getting started with the whole Tawana Brawley thing. What an idiot.