Jesse Jackson: Obama Should Have Been ‘Tougher’ With ‘Extreme’ Right-Wing in Debt Debate
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Rev. Jesse Jackson said President Barack Obama should have been "tougher" with Republicans during debt talks. (AP Photo / Steven Senne)
Rev. Jesse Jackson said President Barack Obama should have been “tougher” when dealing with Republicans during deficit negotiations, telling Politico on Friday that Obama has been too compromising and allowed the other side to drive the debate.
“He has a propensity to be trusting, on the side of reconciliation,” Jackson said. “He kind of underestimates how ideological these guys are and how determined they are to destroy him.”
As the window to reach a deal has dwindled, Jackson said he thinks members of the right-wing have “gotten used to watching him at some level give more ground….They feel they can keep pushing and he’ll keep giving. They have not seen a stiffness.”
Jackson said Obama should have threatened Congress with a unilateral approach early on to avoid the threat of financial disaster.
“The people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, LBJ-type voice,” Jackson said. “He has that voice. It has to be used.”
Jackson also attacked the “anti-Obama mania, the kamikaze guys who would take themselves down just to take him down” that the president faces. At the same time, he pointed to Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann as a reason Obama can hope for reelection: “His biggest asset at this point is the tea party and Bachmann. Those people are so extreme.”
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SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:46pmBoth sides are hoping for failure now…..Jesse hopes the “extreme right wing” fails in their attempt to Destroy Obama’s Presidency and Rush hopes Obama fails in his attempt to drstroy America.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:03pmRushBo is still correct.
Report Post »MMMMM, MMMMMM, MMMMMM
obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:07pmWe should all be tougher on anti-semitic, race baiting haters like Jesse. He does NOT represent any self respecting brothers or sisters. He gives them a bad name and tries to divide everything by hateful racist rhetoric. He teaches entittlement to our youth and dimishishes self responsibility. Go away Jesse Jackson and take Al Sharpton from CommieCast with you.
mwhaley
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:18pmRight On…Right On…Right On!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:21pmRush is right! and I stand with him and LIBERTY and for AMERICA!
TEA!
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:23pmI did not realize this until now but, my pug named Jackson looks like Jesse. What could I have been thinking?
Report Post »hechafteth
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:56pmUh oh, Rainbow Jesse is going to give Obamalama advice on how to “drive a debate with stiffness”.
BO-HICA!!!
Report Post »Bonesaw
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 3:30pmWhy does the Afromerican community continue to put up with this man and Sharpton? These two guys do nothing but shame the very people they claim to be “fighting” for.
Besides, I believe the era of racism is over. Why? Because I encounter more and more white people (Dems included) who no longer care if they are called a racist. The fear and power of the word “racist” is waning. Those who throw the term racist around are quickly being viewed as intellectually deficient and unable to mount a logical attack or defense of their viewpoints. “ya’ll jus look ig-nant”
Report Post »knockered
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 3:43pmWho cares what Jesse Jackson says. I don’t understand what he has done in the world to even be able to have a say in anything. Must be that racial thing again.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 4:03pmYeah, Jessie. We’re determined to DESTROY you as well, you friggin’ commie! We’re gonna get ya, turd …
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 4:29pmEasy to see where his son gets his stupidity from.
Report Post »robert
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 5:03pm“His biggest asset at this point is the tea party and Bachmann. Those people are so extreme.”
Of course they are. I mean, if you think taking a bath regularly and being responsible is extreme.
Somebody should tell Old Jesse that blacks wouldn‘t desire communisn so much if it wasn’t a system that gave them something for nothing. You know, like “from each according to his abilities and to each according to his needs.”
Capitalism requires good mental abilities, hard work and dilligence to get ahead. No wonder they hate it so much. And, no wonder they like the community organizer so much. He’s on the same page as they are and has worked feverishly for them for 25 years.
Does anybody think he wanted to be president for any reason other than to advance blacks some way by hook or crook, but certainly not by advocating hard work and self-discipline? If so, undeceive yourselves my foolish friends.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 5:21pmHi, Jess !! where ya been Bro ?? missed ya..Comin‘ to BO’s rescue ??
Report Post »Gotta make a shown’ now and then, HUH ? what a guy !!
oneshiner
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 6:35pmSorry about your Pug! I will never call this man Rev. He doesn’t deserve it. He is a divider, destroyer
Report Post »and a liar to boot. Lump him with some of the lying democrats blaming the Republicans for not bowing on our knees to them because we are standing firm on a Bill that isn’t even that good, and they want us to cut more out of it, what fools they are. They expect us to give & give and they give nothing, even a Bill to work on. Yeah, they want to work it out if we give in to their demands. Fools these dems. & liars.
Jaycen
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 7:38pmJesse “the Commie” Jackson
Who cares what this person says? He’s got decades proving his hatred of America.
Report Post »Fear The Voices
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 8:49pmThe Right doesn’t have to do very much to make sure Obozo fails; he’s doing a bang-up job all by himself!
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:34pmJessie , Obummer destroyed himself and he will do the same to all racists. Liberalism is about to become extinct. Give it up you loser.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:42pmScre* you Jesse & all you spendthrift libs. The spending spree must stop now. I say we do not raise the limit at all, not even 1 cent.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:37pmJesse, how do you likes dem bitter tea. Jesse just wait until more bitter tea gets added to the pot and dat pot boils over. Jesse you an’t seen anything yet.
This is not a drill…
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:42pmObama must resign. He will resign because if he refuses, the Democrat Party will end once and for ever. The Democrats have done more to destroy America whether intensional or un-intensional more than any enemy ever could. If Democrats really wanted to destroy America, what would they do differently?
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 5:42amRACE BAITOR ALERT!
POVERTY PIMP ALERT!
RACE BAITOR ALERT!
POVERTY PIMP ALERT!
YOU SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO ANYTHING JESSE JACKSON SAYS!
HE CAN NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED!
ANY MAN WHO CHEATS ON HIS WIFE, (democrat or republican, doesn’t matter) can’t be trust. It says something about the “core” or who and what they are… If a preacher, minster or reverend cheats on his spouse it says the most important person in their lives, their spouse, SHOULD NOT TRUST them, they just don’t know it yet. It also says God can’t trust you either if you took that marriage vow in church. Even the baby abortion Jesus that Jackson worships knows that!!!
POVERTY PIMP ALERT!
RACE BAITOR ALERT!
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »Edct
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:04amWhy doesn’t he just help his ***** friends get a job instead of telling them to stay on welfare and support the socialist democrat party.
Report Post »An Old Cattleman
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 8:13amI would like to ask “THE BLAZE” why they report anything this man sez or does. In so far as I can tell he does nothing but rabble rouse and race bait. What in the world are his credentials to command such attention?
Report Post »Jezcruzen
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 9:40amHey, Jesse… go have you a plate of waffles and fried chicken and STHU!
Report Post »jimtrees
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:40pmjesse you’re wasting time. you should be out shaking some white corp. down.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 6:52pmOne idiot standing up for another.
Report Post »SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:45pmWelll..I guess that this is the standard reply when the EXTREME LEFT WING doesn’t get the tax increase to increase spending, which will cause the need for another tax increase to increase spending to cause another tax increase to increase spendingon the EXTREME LEFT WING to keep EXTREME LEFT WING in power so they can increase spending and have more tax increases….until the socialist government runs out of other peoples money…
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:28pmAnd then we get the LEFT wing VIOLENCE they threaten.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 5:34pm“He kind of underestimates how ideological these guys are and how determined they are to destroy him.”
No problem Jess, I think BO is doing that all by himself..He’s a loser on all counts…
Report Post »You Lefties should find yourself a new puppet, this one is not cutting it………..
hannah
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:44pmOh all these far left loons think they are exempt from all the BIG tax hikes that are coming because in their doppy minds they think Obama will save them from the brink. Ha ha ha, Obama takes his orders from George Soros so could care less what the loony left wants. I bet Obama has had Soros up close and personal, in his face a few times now. Soros saying “Don‘t accept ANY deal from the right and don’t you dare pass any deals because the way things are now, we’ll get our way when the country collapses. Obama will desert all the left to save himself, no one matters to him and I wish the people would finally realize it. Just watch the next couple days, you’ll all see.
Report Post »KarenMo
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:02pmI really don‘t see how the Left can honestly think he’s looking out for them. If they don’t realize that they have been used by now, they will soon – they are in for a big wake up call.
Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:21pmWhat many have failed to grasp, is obama is out for obama. He does not really care about the left or the right. He does care about what HE thinks. His malignant personality has no room for anyone other than himself and maybe his family.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:44pm@ KarenMo, who Posted: “I really don‘t see how the Left can honestly think he’s looking out for them. If they don’t realize that they have been used by now, they will soon – they are in for a big wake up call.”
I would like to think you are right, because it would make defeating OBummer in 2012 a whole lot easier. But in my experience, the moonbat liberals have an INFINITE CAPACITY for self-deception, and will not see the truth, no matter how many times it bangs them over the head. Because seeing the truth would mean admitting they were wrong, and being a liberal means NEVER admitting you were wrong, much less saying you were sorry! They live in a delusion of their own making, and will fight like hell to avoid waking up–INCLUDING putting that evil little puppet into the White House for ANOTHER term so he can finish the job of destroying our country. Because hey–if they did NOT vote for him the second time around, someone might think they were wrong the first time . . . this is how their so-called minds work.
I believe the only way to put a stop to this is to stop trying to convert idiot liberals and just overwhelm them with sheer numbers. There ARE more of “us” than there are of “them”–if we can stop bickering and flying off in all directions looking for the “perfect” candidate and act together to put a stop to this moonbat lunacy and take our country back before it is too late!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:47pmIt DOES seem as though these moonbats have deluded themselves into believing NONE of what that evil little puppet in the White House is doing to destroy our economy and our country is going to apply to them. But then, as I said before, they have an infinite capacity for self-delusion, and will not see the truth until they are crushed beneath the wheels of the Communist machine, and by that time, it’s way too late for all of us.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:44pmJesse Jackson is irrelevant.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:51pm@DONTBOTHERME ~~ Bingo!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 2:51pmYes, he is, and he MADE himself irrelevent by constantly throwing the race card, whether or not it actually applied, until, like the boy who cried “Wolf”, people simply started ignoring him. Jackson is an amoral, ethically challenged opportunist who has made a very cushy life for himself being a professional race-baiter and divider. What GOOD has he ever done for ANYBODY, includig his own race? He has simply enriched himself at their expense.
Report Post »inferno
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:44pmOnce J. Jackson makes an underwhelming comment. Right wingers aren’t destroying Obama, he is doing it all by himself. It has become a race betewwn him destroying himself and him destroying the country. I pray it doesn’t end up in a tie !
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:43pmThis idiot professes to be a what? A Christain’tian? He should have gone the way of King, long ago. The guy who killed king probably was aiming for Jesse.
Report Post »bama54m
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:43pmJackson is a divider ,him and Sharpton
Report Post »The_Hut_In_Co
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 4:13pmRace Pimps they are!
Report Post »Repeal10
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:41pmI checked Jesse’s numbers to see if he is right! There were no numbers just jive er rehtoric!
Report Post »Bushie
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:39pmThe ET look-alike speaks again
Report Post »dizzyinthedark
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:39pmWhenever you are in a position of LEADERSHIP you will always be a target. Your policies, whether they work or not, will be criticized. This is why it takes guts to be a LEADER, it takes cajones, a steel spine, whatever you want to call it. Leadership takes brains too to come up with a plan that is best for everyone involved. Now this does not mean that everyone gets their way, but everyone gets what is best to keep the ‘machine’ going. There is always room for improvement and with LEADERSHIP continued meetings, discussions and debate (not backroom deals) the machine improves.
O’Bammy does not lead, he is a community organizer, never owned a business, not surrounded by business people either so they are no help, rather they do what all will do to those that LEAD–criticize, complain, knock down, as if they know better but they don‘t and won’t ever step forward with their plan because they know they too will put themselves ‘out there’ to be criticized.
Too bad for them though because by not doing anything they are criticized anyway! What a bunch of IDIOTS!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:38pmHow much money for Operation Push stuck to his hands and did not go to the charity? People noticed the nice pool he had in his back yard in the 60 or 70s. He had/has a mistress too. Those are cheap. No expense there
Sure he fed the poor. But with the money he had how many more could he have fed?
Report Post »Son_of_Liberty
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:37pmAnother mindless leftist zombie attempting to be relevant.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:51pmJesse Jackson needs to join the traitorous Representative Sheila whatever her last name is and move him and his family to IRAN. There he could spout his anti Anerican rhetoric and no one would hear him.
All the liberal press can do is run around sniffing Obama’s, Jackson‘s and Sharpton’s bicycle seats and report every gaseous enanation which is emitted from that particular area.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 3:16pmWell, Jackson is a lot of things, but you are giving him a “pass” when you call him “mindless”. The SOB knows EXACTLY what he is doing, and he does it on PURPOSE. Unfortunately, for the “downtrodden poor” he pretends to represent, Jesse Jackson DELIBERATELY sows racial division and hatred wherever he goes, because, hey, he makes so much more money doing that than actually WORKING for a living!
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:37pmNote to Communists: Be careful not to wear out the extreme right wing name like you did with the word RACIST, because you don’t have very many names left to call us.
Report Post »4X4in
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:37pmHey, Jesse, Obama be doin a good job deestroyin hisself yo!
Report Post »georgeisn6
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:37pmJesse must have squanderd all his illgotten gains, and now he is comming out of retirment to see if he cant get back on top of the racism busness heap. and make himself some more real big racism money for his old age, since socail security is bankrupt and he cant depend on that.
Report Post »GaryInTheMiddle
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:36pmAnd the race baiter makes his usual appearance.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:41pmIndeed, we have the twins of the “it is all about bigotry and racial biases” spin mastery in Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; and anyone else who preaches almost non stop hatered for everything that America stands for that is right, just and true.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 3:05pmYou got it. I hope some of the OTHER posters are right, and the a$$-hole is working on his retirement fund, because once he has made enough money off his constant race-baiting and dividing, maybe he will finally STFU!
Report Post »MNYukon
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:36pmJesse my boy, what will all of your brothers and sistas do when this country goes bankrupt and there is no money for welfare. Poor folks might have to work to get some spending money.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:35pmHey racist pig no one cares what you say you are worthless even your racist counterpart is more relevant then you he has at least a so called tv show.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 3:19pmJust another troll “plant” trying to make the Tea Party look like a bunch of racist white people who hate “poor downtrodden black people” like Jackson, with his swimming pool, mansion, whore-on-retainer that he keeps on the side, etc. etc. SOB has become a MILLIONARIE spreading dissension and racial hatred!
Report Post »sumguyinohio
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:34pmThe extreme right wing? I think it‘s just american’s wanting to do the right thing. He’s right though I want to destroy Obummer but I want to destroy Jesse as well. I’m just like that though.
Report Post »DeliverUsFromEvil
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:45pmIf the Republicans keep their wits about them and focus on leading, they can step aside and watch BHO self-destruct on his own. It is embarrassing to watch him fall back on his propensity to be a community organizer rather than to act like the buck stops with him and demonstrate some leadership.
A high percentage of Americans know BHO is in way over his head but in their generosity have given him the benefit of the doubt.
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:34pmJesse is feeling his empire fall too. Boooooo Hoooooooo
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:52pmSome people in America, (like Jackson), want Obama to be their dictator so bad they can’t sleep at night just stressing over the constitution and the American way. I have heard progressive media pundits, politicians and ‘media whores’ say they want Obama to go around congress and just dictate to America their progressive poison.
They really should move to another country that has the type of political system they want. But they won’t because they could never have the freedom and benefits of our capitalist system. They are too stupid to realize that if they had their way, their lives and everyone elses lives would be far worse.
Report Post »Bowmaster
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:34pmWhat the racist Jackson means is “he should have been tougher on whitey”.
Report Post »Repeal10
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:32pmFleabaggers don’t get tough! They Flea!
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:55pmHide and watch,……..Doofus!
Report Post »Our ranks are growing by the day, thanks to your president………………
DaBig2na
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:32pmJessie, every time you open your mouth, you allow people to see you for the DUMB A** you really are.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:30pmTWO P E E S in a pot…BO and jaaacksooonnn
Report Post »The_Hut_In_Co
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 4:22pmI think he used to be a football/baseball player!
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:26pmCiting LBJ makes you a thug and dates you, Jesse. Wake-up, it’s 2011 now, not 1968.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 3:12pmYeah, all hail LBJ who replaced all our “silver certificate” money with worthless paper called “Federal Reserve Notes”. He raped our economy, and it has NEVER recovered. Not to mention lying his a$$ off while he was completely BOTCHING the Viet Nam war and getting a lot of our fine young people needlessly killed. He is right up there on my list of “worst American presidents of all time”, but NOBODY tops OBummer on that list!
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