Rev. Jesse Jackson says he
'reserves' the right to be critical of Obama
By Robert "Rob" Redding Jr.
Editor & Publisher
ATLANTA, Sept. 9,
2011, 11:30 p.m.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson today said that he "reserves" the right to be
critical of President Obama.
The minister, who once talked about
cutting off the president's "nuts",
says he has voted for Obama every time he has had the chance, but will continue to
be critical.
"We reserve the right to challenge him, if it is an area where
he is wrong and can be made better," Jackson told Redding News Review.
Jackson has a history of making critical comments about Obama.
When I was crying "at that moment in Grant Park, we were
finally winning, but I was reflecting on the long journey, the many years of
struggle for civil rights," he said. "Obama ran the last lap of a 60-year
campaign. I thought of all the bruises we endured during this campaign and I
thought of Dr. Martin Luther King and wished he had been there just for 20
seconds to see how 60 years of struggle suddenly paid off. Sure, some layer of
the excitement of that night is gone."
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