Wednesday, November 12, 2008
News / Clout City That's one word for it
Posted by Mick Dumke on Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. isn’t the only person who wants to be picked to fill Barack Obama’s seat in the U.S. Senate, but he’s running the most overt campaign for it, as even those close to him acknowledge.
"I’ve been receiving a lot of e-mails from your husband lately," a friend and fellow reporter said this morning to Junior’s wife, Seventh Ward alderman Sandi Jackson, in a hallway outside council chambers.
"I know!” she said. “Isn’t he a beast?"
It wasn’t exactly the word we had in mind, but if by "beast" the alderman meant "a guy who’s sent out three mass e-mails in the last week alone explaining why he would be best for the Senate vacancy," we'd have to agree completely.
And I later discovered that the congressman’s campaign has some Obama-esque qualities to it, such as an eagerness to use new media to reach the young and connected: some supporters have started a Facebook group devoted to the cause.
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So, this little bitch of an excuse for a man didn't have the balls to run for mayor, but thinks he's got what it takes to be our U.S. Senator? Put down the crack pipe, junior JJ.
and now the end is near and jesse faces his final curtain...
obama didn't win because of jesse jr , he won in spite of jesse jr!
I may have been used by Congressman Jackson jr for leverage for Obama, but I also used him for bringing attention to a mis-management issue in Chicago. But I do feel he is the best person to replace President Obama. he has shown me and many others , that when we need someone to fight for us, Jackson Jr when focused, is the best!
The Republicans are drooling at the chance to run against Jr. in 2010. Jr. would not even get the support of all blacks, let alone the racist wards in the city (19, 23, 32, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45, 47, 50) nor any votes south of I-80. I hope his ego forces him to take the position so that he can be soundly defeated in 2010 and be out of our hair.
Unless you know JJjr-don't judge him because he shares his father's name-he is his own person with his own accomplishments. I'm sure he could be mayor if it weren't that judgemental people associate due to name-not his good standing. Jr. is an intelligent person-a person I would like to be in Senate.
Republicans? In Illinois? Oreo, go take your meds!
Congreessman Jackson jr, was at his best , when Coconate was on his team.
Jesse James Jackson Jr cannot win statewid office. He does not have skeletons in his closet he has whole graveyards.
Sandi is legally blonde just as Burke was gavelling Wed's meeting to a close Sandi rushed Burke at the podium with some urgent issue, anyone knw what that was about?
if he fights for the state the way hes fighting for this seat the people of IL will be well served. obama needs to tell the governor to do it
I didn't include the 11th in my list of racist wards because I would just die if I did anything to embarrass our great mayor.
As the mother of a slang-proficient teenager, I'm guessing she meant "beast" defined as "someone who is awesomely good at something."
Doormat for the Log Cabin Pubbies.....
ahhhh the spin.....lets take a look at reality for a moment. Jessie senior and jr..... perhaps a airport being built in far sw burbs of chicago.....guess who owns the land? how did they know where to buy "investment property" JJ sr...... race baiting extortsionist... how does a man of the cloth with the drug and alcohol problems in the city manage to land a budwiser distro?? senior tried that bs with NASCAR, and got out of their offices lucky to be alive.....what does this tell you... he and hs father are both snakes.
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