Posted By: Harvey Zucker  on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Yeah. Ouch, ouch. The truth do hurt.

Posted By: steve d.  on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

How true it is.  Jesse Jackson has been to Black Americans what Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini was to the Palestians, a leader who put his own self interest before the people he represented.  A man whose financial success and popularity was dependent on prolonging and promulgating strife between innocent and often ignorant  peoples.  Thanks for having the guts to print this 'toon.

Posted By: James West  on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Jackson is for jackson and always have been. what he says is not

important. OB should keep this oportutness as fore away from him

as possible, which is what he is doing. Why was it ok for Bill

Cosby to say what he said in regards to Blacks, which was

acceptble to Jackson. Jackson is upset because he can not get

close to OB.

Posted By: Karen  on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The difference between Obama and Jesse Jackson is that Jackson is yelling about how many black men and women are in prison and Obama is wondering why there aren't more black men and women in law school and medical school. He is demanding that men and women mentor their kids and let them know how high they can soar. I'm glad that he's married to a high powered lawyer/administrator. That couple says so many positive things to men and women.  Meanwhile, Jesse sees his time slipping away and he's ticked off beyond belief.

Posted By: Bob Cass  on Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Don't get me wrong...I don't believe Obama is Presidential material. But hasn't Jesse Jackson been trying to fit into MLK's shoes too long. He proved his ignorance by what was said on the open mike. While Obama definitely is an elitist, he couldn't be as popular and trusting as any other Harvard Grad. Let's face it after Alfred E Newman Bush is out of the White Out House, don't think We The People will elect another one of his kind. So Jesse you won't be the first black man in the White House.

Posted By: Robert Hartmann  on Friday, July 18, 2008

Great cartoon.  Jackson and his ilk (e.g., Sharpton) have been the ones furthering themselves by stepping on the backs of those they say they help.  Keeping black constituents feeling like outsiders is what sustains them.  Obama does not "talk down" to blacks; he wants them to join society.  He is color blind in comparsion to Jackson, who makes his living out of picking sides.

Posted By: Good Life  on Friday, July 18, 2008

I actually voted for Jesse for president in the primaries many years back.  He took far more votes in the Nebraska primary than there were Black people in Nebraska.  At that time he would have made a very good president.  But there is a time to "strike while the iron is hot" and a time where the iron cools and fractures under pressure.  It must be torture for Jesse to know that except for poor timing at birth the nomination could have been his and the glory of the first Black president could have been his.  It is unfortunate that he does not recognize that history will show that he opened the door that Obama is walking through.  If he had not had such a good showing in those primaries so long ago, people would not now consider voting for a Black person.

But, having spent several years in broadcasting when I was younger...Why don't these people understand that one treats a microphone like a gun.  Always assume a gun is loaded...Always assume a microphone is hot.

I have to assume that people who are around microphones every day and get "caught".  Get "caught" on purpose.

Posted By: truitt  on Friday, July 18, 2008

i dont understand black people and am black

Posted By: Tony Ross  on Sunday, July 20, 2008

It seems that Jesse Jackson's thinking has not left the 1960's.

Posted By: Jack Sprat  on Sunday, July 20, 2008

Tony Ross

I think JJ is thinking more about the double house payments he has in 2008. But he was as qualified as Obama is today.

We can have a national dialogue at some point, sans the "you owe me's" on both sides.

Posted By: jake davison  on Monday, November 17, 2008

WELL THAN KICK THE MAN WHY DONT CHA!!