Jackson Jr.'s relatively critical :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Lynn Sweet
People seem to be getting off on the fact that father and son are having a public battle over who to support for president. I think that it is good because it keeps us dialogging about the issue, and I think that it is so important. Talk may be cheap, but its good. Now, for all my people in the struggle, she is not Bill! I think that first we have become so infatuated with Bill that we see nothing else. Our perception is that Bill was the best thing since the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, Bill did his good, but he did some not so good also. His crime bill put a lot of yall's kinfolk in the pen, the Telecommunication Bill of 1996 made Clear Channel the monster it is today, shutting out a lot of minority and women owned radio stations, and NAFTA made a lot of you all's uncles lose their jobs, so lets stop with the near orgasms (no pun intended) we keep having because we say his name.
His wife is a different person altogether. She is her own woman with her own ideas, plans and agenda. If you think that the glory days of the Clinton presidency is coming back for a second coming, you could sadly be mistaken, and by the chance that you think that if she gets in a bind, she will roll over and ask him for advice, try again. The days of Bill Clinton are over, deal with and move on. We have an opportunity to make history and possibly change the course of this nation for good. Don't count Obama out because of the conservative spin of inexperience. His inexperience as they call it turned around means a new perspective on things. Sometimes we need to look at things and redefine what they are and stop settling for the same old hamster wheel. I am not saying that Hillary is not qualified, nor does she have the skill to do the job, but having been in the room does not necessarily equate to leadership. I could have been in the operating room with some of the top surgeons in the world, and I am a visual person, but you would not necessarily want me over you with a scalpel to save your life. One thing that I do know for sure is that the conservatives and the republicans are afraid to death of Obama. They are really afraid of black folks as a whole getting behind him. I can see it in their eyes, and I can hear it in their rhetoric on tv. I am almost tempted to get totally behind him just to watch them squirm. Come on people, read between the lines and let pharaoh go!
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