Jesse Jackson Quotes
It doesn't matter whether you're riding an elephant or a donkey if you're going in the wrong direction.
Jesse Jackson, Shadow Senator (Democrat, DC), Candidate for Democratic Party Presidential Nomination, Founder, National Rainbow Coalition, Speech, C-SPAN, July 22, 1990
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The Republicans lost the Congressional election of 2006. See {616069}.
The sexual mores were very different then and separate beds were very common, especially among the more “proper” upper class. When this was written it was still illegal in some states to buy or sell contraceptives, and there were a few state laws regulating the position and method of sexual intercourse.
Roosevelt was running again for the presidency, however this time as a Third Party Candidate. He lost to Woodrow Wilson but outpolled the Republicans. This was the Third Party performance since Abraham Lincoln.
At the time Democrats & Republicans were at each others throats and neither group would much compromise and vitriol was the style of oratory. The partisanship was at an extreme and, respectful, collegial workings between members of the two parties had all but disappeared.
The 1963 Civil Rights Bill passage infuriated the Southern Racists, and the Republicans invited them to switch parties in revenge and by 1990 the shift was almost total.
The all white regular Mississippi Delegation was selected in elections where Blacks were barred from voting although Blacks were in the majority in Mississippi. In addition, the regular party was advocating obstructing the Supreme Court school integration decisions and the Civil Rights Act that had just been passed. See {637616}. The insurgent group was selected in integrated elections, contained black and white delegates, and was pledged to support and obey the laws. The President could not make the decision unilaterally, but had a great deal of influence.
This was an amazing statement for a politician to make in a country where he needed votes to be reelected. The Afrikaners of South Africa were so paranoid about the possibility of their minority domination over the majority Blacks, that they voted overwhelmingly for Botha even though many were not sure of his policies and wanted a change. Botha was the “devil they knew” as opposed to a “devil they did not know”.
While this became a common let wing view starting in the 1960s, few of those espousing it realized that Debs was raising the same problem over 50 years earlier.
This was a new political phenomenon where a President was perceived as more important, more powerful, and preferable to his party. Note that the base of the scale is labeled “Public Opinion”.
The speaker had negotiated a wonderful budget with President Barak Obama, but he had many extreme Republican Tea Party Conservatives who would not support the compromise. The speaker could have passed the bill anyway with the votes of the Democrats and the more rational and centrist Republicans, but he chose not do do so and renegged on his fairly public agreement with the President rather than have a large part of his caucus repudiate him. Talk show host Jay Leno had asked him why de did that. This was his profound answer. Ironically, the dissidents turned on him anyway, and he lost many of his followers. So he resigned as the speaker and also from the House itself
Jesse Louis Jackson is an American political activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
