Here’s what the Illinois Congressman had to say in a statement about his dad’s recent slip up on Fox News:
I’m deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson’s reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama. His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee — and I believe the next president of the United States — contradict his inspiring and courageous career.
Instead of tearing others down, Barack Obama wants to build the country up and bring people together so that we can move forward, together — as one nation. The remarks like those uttered on Fox by Reverend Jackson do not advance the campaign’s cause of building a more perfect Union.
Reverend Jackson is my dad and I’ll always love him. He should know how hard that I’ve worked for the last year and a half as a national co-chair of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. So, I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric. He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself.
In other words, “Dad I finally get this big job and you ruin it for me?”
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Bravo Jr. Way too many people want to coverup for their families. This is too vital an election to allow any fool (dad or not) to screw this up. All of you shutup.. Spike Lee (re. Clint Eastwood), Rev. Wright, homegirl singer her own version of the national anthem, et al. About doesn’t need you fools to make this election an issue of race, it’s already obvious that he’s black.
he is just telling pops to stand to the side and let me rock this!