#1: He talks a bit off the cuff when he thinks he is off mic.  He did in 1984 and he does in 2008.

#2: So do we all, I suppose, whether or not that includes making Jewish racial jokes or speaking about castrating people.

#3: If you had asked me before this incident what Jesse Jackson thought about Obama, I would have offered up a complicated picture full of jealousy and support.  Which is what his remarks suggest.

#4: If you had asked me before this incident what Jesse Jackson thought about Obama’s Father’s Day remarks, I would have said he didn’t like them and was “talking down” to black people.  Which is what his remarks suggest.

#5: If you had asked me what Jackson thought about Obama’s “Faith Based Initiative” proposal, and Bush’s, frankly I would have no idea.

#6:  Berkely Breathed once suggested that his “Bloom County” strip could not deserve the reprinting which Calvin and Hobbes just had because the strips would be stale as Hell.   I offer that thought up with regards to thinking about Jessee Jackson.  Today Breathed does something of a xerox copy of a xerox copy of his 1980s strip.

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