So is Jesse Jackson an idiot or a racist??

So did you hear on the news yesterday that during the 25th anniversary celebration of Jesse Jackson's FAILED attempt at the White House (emphasis on failed) he made the outrageous statement that a black lawmaker in Congress "can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man"? This statement was aimed directly at Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to vote against the House version of the legislation.

Say WHAT!?!

Since when did the pending vote on NObama's disastrous health care bill become an issue of RACE? Oh, I see...it wasn't until last night when Jackson, in my opinion one of the two worst closet racists in the country, made this outrageous, insulting, and downright asinine statement.

You have to ask yourself just what in the living hell this man was thinking when he said this...and of course, 24 hours later after the furor in the press has been going on, now he's "softening his challenge" to the black lawmaker.

Too late, asshole...you can't "unsay" what has already been said. You said it, we heard it, and you're screwed.

This move by someone who calls himself "reverend" to take an important issue that is not related to race in any way, such as health care legislation, and turn it into a race-related issue makes me wanna puke my guts out. Obviously Jackson is worried that the legislation won't pass the pending vote on its own merits, so he's trying a last-ditch attempt to get whatever support he can by shaming black lawmakers into voting for it.

What he's going to do instead is give just about every white man and woman in this country a solid reason NOT to trust him, now or in the future, and to be VERY wary of everything that comes out of his mouth.

Like some of us have been for years...

In one moment, with one simple statement, Jesse Jackson has done more to set race relations back in this country than has been done in the past ten years. Throwing the "race card" is despicable at best, but when done by a supposed man of God on a topic as hot-button as health care goes beyond description.

What I want to see now is what NObama is going to do. He has two choices: one, condemn the statement and call Jackson on the carpet for it publicly which will effectively remove the "race" issue from the topic, or two, say nothing which will indicate his approval of Jackson's abhorrent tactics and show everyone that NObama is as big a racist as Jackson.

So what's it gonna be, Mr. President? Are you a President, or are you a black President?

So is Jesse Jackson an idiot or a racist? Simple.

He's both.

IHC