Reply #26: Perhaps it wasn't the best response.. [View All]

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..however I am still shaking my head at the prospect of Jesse Jackson Jr. endorsing Dean. Dean has made some questionable comments about affirmative action in the past--and I am sure Dean will make his position clear as he has on Medicare. It just strikes me as a bit too early for people like Jackson to endorse Howard Dean. Since Sharpton and Mosely-Braun are for better or worse considered candidate mouthpieces for the black community, certain endorsements like Jackson's should have waited out of respect.

My sense is that Sharpton's feelings have been hurt by this development. And sometimes when emotions get involved people do not express themselves in the best light--or very diplomatically.