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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. at DemFest | 18 comments (18 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. at DemFest (none / 1)

This is heartening, sounds like a great speech. I'm not very familiar with Rep. Jackson, but we need more like him. Hopefully in the Senate as well as the House.

Did you read Madman in the Marketplace's diary Either/Or? (Well, when you get time in between DemFest stuff). It fits right in with this too. Making room for Democrats in the Democratic Party, and making sure that it's our message that the leaders are taking out and not the other way around has never seemed so important.

Thanks for the update.

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by Nanette (nanette at humanbeams dot com) on Sun Jun 19th, 2005 at 08:34:53 PM EST

Re: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. at DemFest (none / 0)

Nanette, I didn't know much about him either before this, and I only saw him at the Sat. night event, when he spoke briefly in praise of Howard Dean. But when I said above that he has it all, I mean it. So much presence and sounds like his dad. So smart and articulate. So passionate and sincere. (So good-looking, as Othniel mentions above. Like it or not, that can affect a politician's success.) As Terri in Tokyo put it this morning, "He is what we thought Obama was." (Apologies to Terri if I haven't gotten her quote exact.)

Janet, you told me a really good description of him, but I know I can't reconstruct it. Something like "Imagine Martin Luther King with 10 times the ..." etc. Can you post your full statement?

If you don't know what you want, it's probably sleep.

by roses on Sun Jun 19th, 2005 at 10:08:59 PM EST
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Actually (none / 0)

I was comparing him to his father. Who knows what I said - given how how overloaded all our circuits were with so much going on this weekend, plus my middle aged memory glitches. I think it was along the lines of imagine his dad with 10 times the focus and message and twice the oratory. And I'm a big fan of Sr. (Proud to say I was a Jackson delegate from our precinct when he ran for president.)

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon

by Janet Strange (jstrange1925athotmaildotcom) on Sun Jun 19th, 2005 at 10:21:55 PM EST
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Re: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. at DemFest (none / 0)

I hope he gets more air time (of course, it's too bad that most times he won't be in that tee shirt, but one can't have everythiing ;).

There have been such concerted right wing attacks on his father (who is, of course, by no means perfect) that I wonder if they are already planning what to use against the son once he appears higher on the horizon.

I'm still hoping Obama will be the Obama we thought he was (as mentioned somewhere in this thread) once he settles into the Senate, but it's not looking all that good. However, foot in the door and all that, and now that we've broken (once again) the color-code in the Senate, maybe we can get some actual progressives in there too.

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by Nanette (nanette at humanbeams dot com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 06:18:58 AM EST
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Nanette (none / 0)

Read and recommended Either/Or.

I had read it this morning over at dKos and couldn't handle Armando's comments. Rereading the BooTrib post and the comments on it reminded me why I spend more time here than there.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon

by Janet Strange (jstrange1925athotmaildotcom) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 12:10:38 AM EST
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Oh, and (none / 0)

the only reason I was reading it there was that I couldn't get in over here. When BooMan gets these server problems fixed, I think it may do a lot for my blood pressure.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon

by Janet Strange (jstrange1925athotmaildotcom) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 12:12:05 AM EST
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Janet (none / 1)

Yes, I read it over there first as well... there were some great comments and discussion coming along before whatshisname started doing whatever it was he was doing, which made no sense to me. Stopping the forward momentum on a discussion of an important matter to air a personal little spat seems very counterproductive to what we are all trying to accomplish.

Oh well, I'm glad people post things over here too... they may not get hundreds of comments, but that's okay, in the long run.

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by Nanette (nanette at humanbeams dot com) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 05:59:58 AM EST
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