--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, okpeachman2000 <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > For 40 years brother Jesse has been active to further > only one cause, himself. Wise folks in the community > have been embarrassed by this for years and it is why > Obama has kept him at a great distance.
Not surprising that Obama would keep him at a distance. Here are some of the elements of Jackson's platform in 1984 and 1988 (from Wikipedia): --creating a Works Progress Administration-style program to rebuild America's infrastructure and provide jobs to all Americans --reprioritizing the War on Drugs to focus less on mandatory minimum sentences for drug users (which he views as racially biased) and more on harsher punishments for money-laundering bankers and others who are part of the "supply" end of "supply and demand" --reversing Reaganomics-inspired tax cuts for the richest ten percent of Americans and using the money to finance social welfare programs --cutting the budget of the Department of Defense by as much as fifteen percent over the course of his administration --declaring Apartheid-era South Africa to be a rogue nation --instituting an immediate nuclear freeze and beginning disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union --giving reparations to descendants of black slaves --supporting family farmers by reviving many of Roosevelt's New Deal–era farm programs --creating a single-payer system of universal health care --ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment --increasing federal funding for lower-level public education and providing free community college to all --applying stricter enforcement of the Voting Rights Act --supporting the formation of a Palestinian state James Carville said at one point in the primary campaign that Hillary should give Obama one of her balls, "and then they'd both have two." He could have said the same of Jackson and Obama.
