Charlotte, NC — The Reverend Jesse Jackson brought the Ohio delegation to its feet Thursday morning, calling for a record-breaking voter registration drive to avoid what he called "the thievery" of Ohio votes in the 2004 presidential election.
The civil rights leader lead the delegation in a call-and-response pledge: "We deserve the right to vote, and deserve the right for our vote to count."
Thursday is the last day of the Democratic National Convention, but Jackson cautioned that Democrats: "You can win but still lose, if we don’t stop the thievery."
Jackson focus on two areas of worry: Early voting and voting day irregularities. by a federal judge on August 31, but Jackson cautioned Democrats to look beyond that decision, and to remember the controversies around the 2004 presidential election.
The 2004 election in Ohio was marred by irregularities, and at the time Jackson was a vocal critic of that election's handling.
The Ohio delegation rose to its feet and cheered when Jackson exhorted them to focus on the next month. "We must have the most massive voter registration in the next 30 days that Ohio has ever seen, and then …. use that vote to win in November," he said.
When he wasn't focused on getting out the vote, Jackson turned his attention to the GOP, and what he said motivates them.
"They want to sink the ship just to destroy the captain," Jackson said, speaking of President Obama and the economy. "And we deserve better leadership than that."
On the Tea Party, he said: "This is Fort Sumter Tea Party, not the Boston Tea Party. It has deep roots in ideology. This is a states’ rights, Fort Sumter Tea Party, fundamentally anti- [our] views about racial justice, gender equality, and … worker rights."
Jackson's appearance capped a week of big appearances for the Ohio delegation. As Governor Ted Strickland told the delegation Thursday morning at the same event, "Throughout this convention, there's not been a state mentioned as often as Ohio."
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http://largeup.okayplayer.com/2012/08/08/impressions-the-jamaica-50-independence-grand-gala/ You can see that the organizers set the seating arrangement and for security reasons (I have put on larger events like this) you sometimes have to clump your "celebrities." And given that this took place in Jamaica, which can be specifically dangerous and also probably a lower security budget, there would be nothing unusual at all about this.
When I lived in Decatur, Illinois the school board expelled 8 students for creating a mini-riot at a cross-town high school football game. Jesse jumped on his soap box and immediately screamed "racism". He then chartered busloads of Chicago welfare recipients to come down to Decatur to defend these "student's" rights. The funniest part was that the Decatur police closed a few streets and a couple of the buses became hopelessly lost. The school board ended up letting a few back in and guess what? Six of the eight ended up in jail over the next year on other charges. Big surprise. Anyone with any sense does exactly the opposite of anything Jackson advises.
Senator of Ohio, Sherrod Brown attacked the Jewish G.O.P. opponent invoking Nazi style tactic. Despicable and pathetic to say the least. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ohio-dem-invokes-nazi-propaganda-tactic-
how come Jessie Jackson can paint Republicans with the brush of the Confederacy (whom the Republicans crushed) and not be called out but if a Republican says "Chicago" they are a racist?
Here are numbers they are NOT telling you: 1) 368,000 people STOPPED looking for work in August. Meaning they CANNOT be counted as unemployed. These people have no more unemployment benefits to claim and have realized there are zero jobs out there for them. If you were to re-calculate those numbers and include the people who are no longer looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 12%. This number does not include the UNDEREMPLOYED, or the people who have stopped looking for work over the past 3 years; that number would be an astonishing 23%. 2) 69% of men are working. Meaning 31% are not. The lowest % of working men since the 1940's. 3) The number of employed Americans is at the lowest number in the past 31 years. An incredible number considering there are more people now in the USA than there were in 1981. 4) A record high of 88,921,000 Americans whom are not in the civilian labor force. 5) Manufacturers have cut the most jobs in August than at anytime in the past two years. 6) The supposed "job growth" each month is LESS THAN the number of people LEAVING the workforce every month. People leaving the work force CANNOT be counted as unemployed. If Jackson wants jobs for black people, he needs to vote Romney/ Ryan.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/09/cleveland_public_powers_contra.html
The President, Barack Obama has told us many times that he hates coal and the coal mining process. It has now taken its toll in Whitesburg, Kentucky, one of many. Which state is next? 1. http://www.wkyt.com/yourtown/locations/letcher/headlines/Mine_will_close_in_June_148175715.html 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aLcbr63ME