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Jackson, Jr. Criticizes Burris For Allowing "Racialization" Of IL Senate Seat Controversy

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Other Politics
Posted on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:15:00 AM EST
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Smart political maneuvering by Jesse Jackson, Jr:

Jackson supported Burris’ effort to claim the seat to which he was appointed by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich but criticized him for allowing his supporters to play the race card. This “racialization of the Senate seat is going to be a profound problem for Democrats,” Jackson told Politico.

It seems fair to assume that Jackson wants to be the next Senator from Illinois. Criticizing the "racialization" of the Blago/Burris Affair BY Burris while at the same time supporting Burris' seating is shrewd political positioning by Jackson.

Well played sir.

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    Jackson, Jr. Criticizes Burris For Allowing "Racialization" Of IL Senate Seat Controversy | 43 comments (43 topical)

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    Indeed (5.00 / 6) (#1)
    by vicndabx on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 07:27:57 AM EST
    racialization of the Senate seat is going to be a profound problem for Democrats

    and a profound problem for this nation as a whole IMHO.  This from the man who was himself a supporter who played the race card.  This the type of crap that drives a wedge between Americans and should have no place in politics.

    yeah - sure is easy for him to say that (5.00 / 3) (#18)
    by ruffian on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 10:25:44 AM EST
    when he knows his primary opponent (if indeed it is Burris) is going to be black. Otherwise, based on his past performance, I have no doubt he'd have a few cards up his own sleeve.


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    Wow (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by Steve M on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 07:39:05 AM EST
    Shameless!

    Just mad he didn't get picked! (5.00 / 2) (#9)
    by blogname on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:22:41 AM EST
    After getting donors lined up for Blago, he didn't get the appointment. Classic case of sore loser.

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    Classic case of (5.00 / 1) (#15)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:46:25 AM EST
    a politician getting ready to run for office.

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    yep. (5.00 / 4) (#3)
    by cpinva on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 08:23:03 AM EST
    Well played sir.

    yes he did, and don't think it will be soon forgotten.

    This from the man who was himself a supporter who played the race card.

    obama directly bears the blame for this. not because he himself did it or actively condoned it, but because he did nothing actively to either stop it, or let it be known, loud and clear, that those people were not speaking for him or his campaign.

    Maybe (5.00 / 10) (#4)
    by rooge04 on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 08:32:05 AM EST
    Burris didn't shed tears for Katrina.  

    JJJ should be ashamed of himself after he so forcefully and nastily used the race card himself. Have these people no sense of history or shame? Apparently not.

    Brilliant!!!! (5.00 / 2) (#8)
    by blogname on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:21:09 AM EST
    I failed to connect those dots....Mainly because I was thinking: Burris said the situation had nothing to do with race! So exactly how is HE guilty of playing a race card?  And - agreeing with you -- by that standard, Obama played the race card constantly through his surrogates, including Jackson.

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    This is absurd (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:45:47 AM EST
    Roland Burris called Bobby Rush up to the podium with full knowledge of what Rush would do.

    Burris completely and utterly played the race card.

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    I agree that (5.00 / 5) (#16)
    by rooge04 on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:50:12 AM EST
    Burris Burris used the race card. My criticism is that JJJ is no stranger to having used it himself when he needed to. He's (JJJ) is a hypocrite.

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    A different point (none / 0) (#20)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 11:27:27 AM EST
    than the one I make in my post.

    They are not mutually exclusive.

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    Oh certainly not! (5.00 / 1) (#24)
    by rooge04 on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 01:10:47 PM EST


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    They must also think we have no memory (5.00 / 2) (#31)
    by Maria Garcia on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 05:23:27 PM EST
    ...but alas he is quite wrong about that. He may win the next Illinois Senate seat but he will have zero credibility with a lot of people for the rest of his career on this subject. Some things are harder to forget than others. That Katrina remark was outrageous.

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    Shrewd? Really? (5.00 / 4) (#5)
    by Robot Porter on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 08:44:14 AM EST
    Seems more craven to me, and remarkably transparent.

    He might as well have just announced his primary bid in the same statement.

    I wonder if it (5.00 / 2) (#6)
    by dk on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:07:02 AM EST
    the statement was part of a deal with Reid and Obama to get back in their good graces.  He'll need their support to win the primary, and as we know from the Fitzgerald tapes, candidate #5 doesn't have it at the moment.

    craven indeed (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by Chgohunt on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:25:44 AM EST
    Another wrong read BTD.  JJJr is as prone to play the race card as his colleague he reprimands.  This is nothing more than posturing by a man who hopes for very short memories among Illinois voters, but who is very likely to come up in the "pay to play" impeachment trial as one of the offenders.  Sad to say, but JJJr is going down, not up.

    Excuse me (1.00 / 0) (#13)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:44:39 AM EST
    Your statement that "JJJr is as prone to play the race card as his colleague he reprimands.  This is nothing more than posturing by a man who hopes for very short memories among Illinois voters, but who is very likely to come up in the "pay to play" impeachment trial as one of the offenders." is not responsive to my post.

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    Sigh. (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by Fabian on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 10:26:27 AM EST
    I feel like I'm watching a some kind of political drag where pols put on their best political faces and political dresses and try to convince people they are something that they are not.

    Almost Too Ironic for Words... (5.00 / 2) (#37)
    by notime4lies on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 07:19:04 PM EST
    Jackson criticising Burris for allowing others to play the race card.

    Hello Congressman Pot, meet Sen. Kettle.

    oh my... (5.00 / 1) (#40)
    by nell on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:28:20 PM EST
    Jesse Jackson Jr. and the race card...two words come to mind...tears and Katrina...

    What if Blago had picked JJ Jr (none / 0) (#7)
    by Saul on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:20:50 AM EST
    and the same racial event had taken by place as it did with Burris.  What would JJ Jr. be saying then?
    No the racial issue can only help me in 2010?

    BTD (none / 0) (#11)
    by Steve M on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:31:25 AM EST
    Would you like to revise this prediction?

    Indeed (none / 0) (#12)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:43:44 AM EST


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    heh (none / 0) (#17)
    by andgarden on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 10:00:40 AM EST


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    won't be room (none / 0) (#21)
    by wystler on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 11:56:50 AM EST
    ... to split the "urban vote" in the primary.

    Unless Todd Stroger retires from his chairmanship at the Cook County Board, there's no way that an African American can win the primary race without near 90% support from the AA wards in Chicago.

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    Talk about chutzpah (none / 0) (#23)
    by elrapido on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 12:35:30 PM EST
    Sounds like Jesse Jackson Jr. has never heard of Jesse Jackson Sr.

    The only race card that is played every day (none / 0) (#25)
    by samtaylor2 on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 02:17:03 PM EST
    Of someones life is the credit card you get from being white.

    You may want to take that white card (5.00 / 2) (#26)
    by nycstray on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 03:10:00 PM EST
    and make it a bit more real if you're going to play it.

    Straight White Male. And Male trumps White quite often when the "other gender" is in play. . . .

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    Straight White Females can use it to (5.00 / 1) (#32)
    by samtaylor2 on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 05:36:37 PM EST


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    Get back to me when we have equal rights (5.00 / 1) (#33)
    by nycstray on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 06:13:59 PM EST
    and they are no longer trying to legislate our rights away.

    Until you've walked in my shoes . . . .   ;)

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    Until you have walked in this black man shoes (5.00 / 3) (#42)
    by samtaylor2 on Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 08:53:24 AM EST
    Maybe you can refrain from using "the race card" as some flippant comment.  Respect is a two way street.

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    And Then There's Class (5.00 / 2) (#43)
    by daring grace on Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 10:17:21 AM EST
    Wealthy male or female trumps impoverished anyone...

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    Don't' forget stuff like looks and height. (none / 0) (#28)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 05:08:31 PM EST


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    And, most importantly, attitude. (none / 0) (#29)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 05:10:01 PM EST


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    Gotta love a good 'Tude! (none / 0) (#30)
    by nycstray on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 05:20:32 PM EST
    Yes, size and looks do play in, but males still have the edge there, imo. And of course, for the ones with the looks advantage, there's that other issue that pops up, sexism and harassment.

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    No argument, (none / 0) (#39)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 08:29:57 PM EST
    tall guys have over shorter ones. Good looking ones over not. Often the same w/women, in my experience.

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    Personally, I think that in the real world... (none / 0) (#35)
    by EL seattle on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 06:56:01 PM EST
    a FilthyRich-Ugly-Gay-Female-Stupid-Slob-OfColor card still manages to easily trump any DirtPoor cards, including the DirtPoor-Attractive-Hetro-Intelligent-WhiteGuy card.

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    Yes (5.00 / 2) (#36)
    by squeaky on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 07:00:10 PM EST
    It is moronic to get into pissing contests as to who is the most oppressed. All it has to do with is who has the power. Even in your analogy the dirt poor person is not necessarily the loser always.

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    Actually it's not about who's more oppressed (5.00 / 1) (#38)
    by nycstray on Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 07:36:13 PM EST
    it's about awareness when someone throws out the white card. Just because someone's white they don't have issues with discrimination is not true, and quite frankly, I'm getting a tad tired of it. We have Equality bills going through congress right now because equality is not solely about race and the playing field is not even . . .

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    Why?? (none / 0) (#41)
    by AscotMan on Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 04:35:16 AM EST
    Obama's little lectures to black people on proper parenting turned my stomach.

    ....because it's not true, or, it's true but washing dirty linen in public is not the way to go? Maybe you felt it was patronising; in which case I'll have to ask," how so" ?

    I second this "why?" (none / 0) (#44)
    by shoulin4 on Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 01:59:31 PM EST
    Why?

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    And... (none / 0) (#46)
    by lentinel on Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 09:17:31 PM EST
    In only offering his lectures on proper child rearing exclusively to black people, he was pandering to white people.

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    Because (none / 0) (#45)
    by lentinel on Thu Jan 15, 2009 at 09:11:32 PM EST
    a) It is not his function to lecture on the rearing of children.
    Who the hell does he think he is?

    and

    b) He only offered these little lectures to black people.

    Patronizing as hell.

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