Sarah Palin the new Jesse Jackson?

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By GottaLaff

Spotlight McWingnut the new Jesse Jackson? I smell a ghostwritten Facebook post coming:


Peter Brown: “Sarah Palin would probably blanch at the comparison, given their widely divergent world views, but these days her political profile looks quite similar to the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s just over two decades ago.”

“Simply put, the two emerged as political and media celebrities backed by exceptionally strong support within the most ideological wing of their respective political parties. But both also carry substantial political baggage with the much larger numbers of American voters who decide November elections.”

Remember all the hubbub and ballyhoo, not to mention the falderol and ruckus, when the Rushpublics accused then-candidate Obama of being nothing more than a superficial, crowd-pleasing celebrity?

Let me see if I can detect any sounds of hubbub and ballyhoo now that Spotlight McWingnut has attained the very same same status….

Nope.

There is a huge difference between the two of course. Obama had substance as well as style. And he was popular enough to get elected to the highest office in all the land… by a landslide.

Jesse Jackson is an accomplished civil rights activist who’s had his share of problems.

Half-Govner Palin quit. And has her share of ethics/honesty problems.

And proved her lack of heft when she resorted to writing crib notes on her palm.

No, she’s not the new Jesse Jackson. She’s the new punch line.

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  • Mr. Dak

    First, she will need to have someone teach her about all of those places you wrote about, Lucy. Some of them are a little hard to find on a Risk board.

  • Lucy

    This woman wish she had the cred Rev. Jesse Jackson has. Remember
    In 1983, Jackson traveled to Syria to secure the release of a captured American pilot, Navy Lt. Robert Goodman who was being held by the Syrian government. Goodman had been shot down over Lebanon while on a mission to bomb Syrian positions in that country. After a dramatic personal appeal that Jackson made to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Goodman was released. Initially, the Reagan administration was skeptical about Jackson's trip to Syria. However, after Jackson secured Goodman's release, United States President Ronald Reagan welcomed both Jackson and Goodman to the White House on January 4, 1984. This helped to boost Jackson's popularity as an American patriot and served as a springboard for his 1984 presidential run. In June 1984, Jackson negotiated the release of twenty-two Americans being held in Cuba after an invitation by Cuban president Fidel Castro.

    He traveled to Kenya in 1997 to meet with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi as United States President Bill Clinton's special envoy for democracy to promote free and fair elections. In April 1999, during the Kosovo War, Jackson traveled to Belgrade to negotiate the release of three U.S. POWs captured on the Macedonian border while patrolling with a UN peacekeeping unit. He met with the then-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević, who later agreed to release the three men.(Wikipedia)

    I remember all of that. Sarah Palin needs to go and rescue a few hostages before anyone can ever put her in the category with Rev. Jesse Jackson.

  • kwsmith

    i was going to say till iread this that if she's the new jesse jackson,i'm the new bobby kennedy.only problem is i'm a little burned out on politics right now

  • kwsmith

    i was going to say till iread this that if she's the new jesse jackson,i'm the new bobby kennedy.only problem is i'm a little burned out on politics right now