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Coralfish · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 2:04 am Post subject: Jesse Jackson's Comments

Did anyone here listen to the "Reverend"(Rush Limbaugh says it better) Jesse Jackson's comments? I am not usually in the habit of listening to what he has to say, but this time, he was way out of line in his criticizm of the President and the war etc.(not that he usually is not or anything) but I remember one of his many comments being along the lines of: It`s a good thing that they did not decide to entitle the campaign in Iraq "Operation Iraqi Liberation", because the acronym for it would have been "OIL". Anyhow, I guess I was merely wondering if anyone else here had heard any of his comments and if they were bothered as much as I was. And I am distinctly aware that Jesse Jackson is not one of the more significant or important voices these days, but it still did not fail to irritate and annoy me. Perhaps, just perhaps...that was the intent.....who knows. Wink

Jared · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:20 am Post subject:

I didn't hear those comments, but I have no trouble whatsoever believing that he said that.

Actually, compared to the other things he's prone to say, that's pretty mild.

Sydney Bristow Vaughn · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:29 pm Post subject:

*funny bone has been tickled* Now i wish they HAD named it Operation Iraqi Liberation. Too good.

Zaphod Beeblebrox · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:32 pm Post subject:

Ha... that would have been funny... OIL... ha... ha... :lol:

My, that Jesse Jackson is irritating... Mad

Jared · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:43 pm Post subject:

I just came across some new Jesse Jackson comments.

Poor guy. Fundraising must be down.

Every time he needs more money, he desparately wants his name in the paper. So every time he's running short on cash, he comes up with a new crazy scheme.

Apparently, he now wants the United States and Iraq to agree to a ceasefire so he can go over there and "wage peace."

In other words, he wants the United States to pull out and the world will see pictures of Jesse and Saddam on television, smiling and waving at the photographers and talking about how peace-loving and tolerant they are. Meanwhile, in Basra, where the U.S. Marines will have pulled out of and where citizens had been welcoming and assisting the U.S., Mr. Peace-loving Hussein's feyadeen (Rumsfeld just calls them the Death Squad -- it fits) will be massacring everyone who so much as looked up at the American and British forces.

They've already hanged one woman for waving to some Marines.

Jesse Jackson is disgusting. He brags that he is just about the only American who is welcome in Iraq and Iran. He also is proud of the fact that he has very good relations with Fidel Castro of Cuba.

He says its because unlike all those evil conservatives, he gives peace a chance and those people are just really wonderful people slandered by that ultra conservative rag the New York Times and that oh so right-slanted CNN and that ultra-right-wing-Christian-fanatical ABC News.

Oh wait, you mean that I was describing the Times, CNN and ABC News a little differently than you would have? ;)

So, Je$$e Ja¢k$on, as some would write his name, says that he has good relations with all these people because he's nice. I say they like him because evildoers enjoy each others company.

Coralfish · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:43 pm Post subject:

Yes, but he really does not bother me anymore, because I realized just how insignificant he really is.

Now, I do not have the exact numbers right here, but Jessie Jackson some time ago was booked to speak at a university. I believe(and this was a while ago so I may be a bit off) they reserved this giant auditorium for him to come give one of his usual Anti-Bush/Anti-American speeches. The college was fairly certain that the turnout would be huge, and they seating for about 10,000. They were certail that the students would bring family and friends etc...after all it was Jesse Jackson! Plus I believe they used some outside advertising, so they were counting on that as well. Guess how many people showed up? I think it was somewhere around 200!(yes my numbers may be a bit off, but it has been a while) I can just imagine this huge empty building with all those seats and 200 people interspersed amongst them. I can even hear the echo. And it makes me feel good. Smile

Jared · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 4:59 pm Post subject:

Well, Democratic Presidential "Contender" former Senator and should-be-convicted-felon Carol Mosely Braun figured that her intent to run speech would draw in a huge crowd, so she booked an enormous auditorium, where she would give five speeches on the subject, two per day. The idea was that the crowd would be so large that it would take five different events to give them all a chance to get in.

This belief sort of died out after the first event, which had huge publicity in the state, had a total of one - yes, one - supporter show up. To make matters worse, that one individual was a person friend of Moseley Braun, one with which the candidate was STAYING during her stay in the area. Not one other person (other than a small press contingency assigned to the story) showed up. One supporter.

Her next meeting, which had enormous publicity due to the huge news of her first speech fiasco (tons of publicity, but not necessarily of the highest kind) netted a grand total of THREE supporters. Once again, one of them was that personal friend.

She cancelled the rest of the speeches.

So, there's precendent to things like this happening. Liberal whining might serve as entertainment, but no one wants to be subjected to it for long durations. Smile

Coralfish · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:28 pm Post subject:

Since there is really no place to post this, and there are no current Iraq threads, I am just going to post this here, since I did not feel it was necessart to create a new thread for this. I am not going to claim that Colin Powell really said this since it was told to my by my uncle, and it is entirely possible that he does not check his sources. It is interesting none the less, and would not suprise me if indeed Powell really did say this.

When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.

He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those
that did not return."

Just a thought......and I found it rather interesting.

Jared · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:55 pm Post subject:

Yes, it's actually a real quote.

Here are two news articles to back it up:

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/5040368.htm

http://www.rcnetwork.net/Articles.php?cid=11&aid=713

hawkeye · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2003 6:04 pm Post subject:

Yes, i hear some of Jesse's comments when Fox News interviewed him... After wards, they talked about how his support was down, and he was getting desparate for cash... Jesse is only dissapointing memoreand more. Best friends with the owner of the night club that was under numerous violations, condemning Bush and encouraging these protests, just to list the recent appearances. And where does he feel he gets off calling himself Reverend anyway?

I saw the movie about the guy who founded the Methodist Church (can't remember his name), and there is one scene where a guy enters the room where the founder was, and the enteree caled the founder "Reverend". The founderresponded by saying Reverend is a title only God deserves, as He alone is worthy of reverence. Humans in Church service of preaching (hopefully) the Word of God, are just pastors or priests.

Back to Jesse.... Since he is yet to align with the Bible, I seehis insistance to be labeled Reverend almost as blasphemy.....