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"I Respect the Distance He is Trying to Create" - Jesse Jackson on Why He Supports But Hasn't Been Asked to Campaign for Obama

"I Respect the Distance He is Trying to Create" - Jesse Jackson on Why He Supports But Hasn't Been Asked to Campaign for Obama

The Reverend Jesse Jackson and his son, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., support Barack Obama, but his other son, Yusuf, is a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, and his wife has just cut a radio ad for her. Why isn’t Jesse Jackson out stumping for his man? He hasn’t been asked. “I respect the distance [Obama] is trying to create for his own strategic purposes,” Jackson tells Democracy Now! [includes rush transcript]

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