RK ARCHIVE - Jesse Jackson: George Allen's "Pattern of Sick Behavior"

Question: "George Allen has been in a lot of trouble for reference to some of the history that you just mentioned...Macaca comment..."n word"...The part that really struck us... was the "noose that was hanging from a tree at some point in his office. He says that it was Western memorabilia. Do you see it as Western memorabilia?"

Answer by Jesse Jackson: "No. It is a pattern of sick behavior, born of a certain cultural orientation. He seems not to have risen above those...dimensions of our culture. And I suppose the people of Virginia will judge him and judge themselves by their vote at election time."

Lowell Feld is Netroots Coordinator for the Jim Webb for US Senate Campaign. The ideas expressed here belong to Lowell Feld alone, and do not represent those of Jim Webb, his advisors, staff, or supporters.

Comments

Jesse Hits the Nail (Teddy - 10/11/2006 12:40:14 PM)

While I myself have sometimes found Jesse to be a bit much, he has an unsettling habit of mush mouthing around and then suddenly coming out with an incisive, dead on comment that sums up every bit of the matter at end.

That's what he's done here. All of Allen's back and forth about I didn't say any such thing, and other flip flopping whines, and arrogant dismissals of why the stock option reporting rules didn't apply to him ("they were worthless") and all of Allen's attacks on Webb's honesty when it's his own that's in question (on the theory that offense is the best defense, I guess)--- all of these details are just noise. The fact is, all of it is "a pattern of sick behavior." That pretty well sums up everything we need to know about George Allen.

Behavior Question (PM - 10/11/2006 12:47:01 PM)

What's going on at a certain central Va. courthouse? Supposedly someone found two George Allen court records there, and some people were going to investigate.

Are they the sealed divorce papers? Or something more?

AA (TurnVirginiaBlue - 10/11/2006 1:23:13 PM)

I'll confess, I think Webb is messed up on this...
but after a long scrutiny, I believe his objectives, which are to increase vehicles for social mobility and opportunity for all, based on economic backgrounds is a much more important factor that how AA is set up (and also plain ignored in the private sector many fields) right now.

I think when it comes down to what is gonna actually work, people have a much better shot at Webb having their back than Allen in a million years (unless you have > $20k for a campaign contribution or possibly a junket, maybe some stock options and some legal work thrown a certain way, oops, I digress)....

Ya also know, no one in their right mind, who is simply pandering and giving lip service would come out with such a politically incorrect (PC) position!

So, Webb is most assuredly the better candidate for minorities than Allen and Jackson is right...

it's Allen's "brain" that is the problem, not specific incidents...we're seeing a pattern of believe right up to 2006 on how he views groups of diversity.