Bill Clinton Invokes Jesse Jackson; Obama Supporters Cry Foul

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Posted By James Besser

Political Insider: Bill Clinton Invokes Jesse Jackson; Obama Supporters Cry Foul

What did former President Bill Clinton really mean on Saturday when he compared Sen. Barack Obama's big win in the South Carolina Democratic primary to Jesse Jackson's primary successes in the state? (read the Jewish Week update on the South Carolina contest here )

"Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in 84 and 88," Clinton told a group of his wife's supporters in Columbia. "Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

On the surface maybe that was a complement, or an attempt to dismiss the Obama victory as unimportant in the greater political scheme of things - but some angry Obama supporters say Clinton may have meant something else.

"The Jesse Jackson comment was designed to scare Jews in New York and California," said a leading Jewish supporter of the Illinois senator. "Otherwise why invoke him at all? We can expect more of the same as the word is that Obama is running strongly even in Hillary's home state of New York among young Jews.

Jackson remains politically toxic particularly among older Jewish voters, this political activist said; Clinton's invoking of his name after South Carolina may have been meant to prompt a strong turnout in Super Tuesday states with big Jewish populations - and perhaps in Tuesday's Florida beauty contest primary.

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Obama: President Clinton I know Jesse Jackson

01/27/08 @ 09:56 AM | Posted By Loren King

Obama: "President Clinton I know Jesse Jackson"

"Jesse Jackson is no friend of mine"

"President Clinton I,m no Jesse Jackson"

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