Obama late on the late Jesse Jackson |
So farewell then, Reverend Jesse Jackson. The civil-rights hero and two-time Democratic presidential candidate died this morning, aged 84.
Given his titanic status as an African-American leader, the first living president, former or current, to issue a statement was, naturally… Donald Trump.
“He was a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and ‘street smarts,’” wrote Trump on Truth Social just before 8:30 a.m. “He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand.”
In fact, at the time of writing, Obama still hadn’t posted about the Reverend (former presidents Biden and Clinton issued statements this morning). The 44th president finally spoke up at 12:50 p.m., two minutes after this email was sent.
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Cockburn casts his mind back to the 2008 election campaign, when Jackson was caught on a hot mic discussing Obama in rather un-Christlike terms. “I want to cut his nuts out,” the pastor said during a broadcasting........