Jesse Jackson humiliates self, yet again.

Oh Jesse, please, not again! After the famous Hymietown comment that expressed a dislike of New York Jews, after the unpleasant adultery news item, we hear the unvarnished views of Rev. Jesse Jackson regarding the candidacy of Barack Obama. Apparently thinking that a microphone was turned off (it was not) Jesse informed a fellow interviewee that  "See, Barack's been talking down to black people ... I want to cut his nuts off."

Aside from the clearly inappropriate nature of his wish to castrate the official nominee of Jesse's beloved Democratic Party, it is possible to wonder if perhaps there is a tiny bit of sour grapes at work. Jesse once ran for President, and didn't get far with it. It apparently enrages Jesse that somebody else with black skin got a bit closer than he did to the White House, by, oh my God, appealing to a few white voters?

I pointed out recently the silliness of Ralph Nader's statement that Barack Obama is "acting white". Please, can we admit that black americans are not any more monolithic than white americans? Hey, Clarence Thomas is black, and so is Walter Williams, the political pundit who I can count on to argue against anything that makes sense to me. Jesse's specific axe to grind apparently involves Obama's recent speech in which he admitted that black fathers in the USA could do a better job of being fathers. Is there any possible way to argue with that statement? Sure black males have a tough row to hoe in the USA in some respects- but that row will be tougher for their sons if the fathers continue to fail at their most important job of all.

It's called admitting vulnerability, Jesse. But of course you would not understand that, you figure that admitting vulnerability just makes people exploit and abuse you. For a follower of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., you certainly did fall a long way from the tree, Jesse. This episode actually got your son, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., to say "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Rev. Jackson's reckless statements about Sen. Barack Obama. His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee -- and I believe the next president of the United States -- contradict his inspiring and courageous career." 

I am tired of american politicians saying crude and hateful things when they think microphones are turned off. There was Richard Nixon, filling the oval office with obscene slurs. There was George W. Bush, calling a reporter an a*****e.  And now there is Jesse Jackson, capping off a career of behavior that does not measure up to the title "Reverend".  What did you ever do to earn that title, Jesse?