Jesse Jackson: "Too many people want to sink the ship in order to destroy the captain"

[Empowerer]

So true.

[wndycty]

1. K&R

:kick:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. What He Said

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[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Sadly, on both sides.

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[Nostradammit]

4. Only because he keeps steering the boat back towards the iceberg.

[ClarkUSA]

6. The steering wheel is broken because his mutinous crew sabotaged its function.

[rug]

7. The bank is coming to repo the whole damned ship.

[Nostradammit]

8. The crew he hand-selected?

[ClarkUSA]

9. No, the crew that was with the ship when he became captain.

The ones who obstruct every decision the captain makes by making sure the ship can't steer smoothly. They want him to fail because they want a different captain of their own ilk badly enough that they're willing to risk hitting the iceberg to show what a lousy captain he is so he'll be fired.

[YvonneCa]

14. EXACTLY. And the Republicans insist...

...on blurring that line.

[Nostradammit]

19. Like Giethner? Or Summers?

Or this new guy he just brought on board, Zelikow?

You know, the PNAC dude.

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[woo me with science]

31. Third Way Democrats

have virtually the same policy agenda as Republicans:

www.thirdway.org


The Third Way did not arise from the grass roots. It is a deliberate infiltration of the party by banks and corporations.

[YvonneCa]

13. So true...

...:7

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[Arkana]

16. Kinda hard not to when your own crew has slashed the rudder chains and taken a wrench

to the turbines.

But hey, the passengers don't give a shit--they're too busy yelling at the captain who's trying to steer a ship that literally can't change direction.

[Tarheel_Dem]

18. Someone gets an A+ in analogy.

:applause:

[EffieBlack]

28. Nicely done

[Number23]

11. You got that right.

[polichick]

12. Actually no, those on this side tried to get the ship back under control...

...after the captain was kidnapped by pirates.

[MjolnirTime]

15. That really is the saddest part.

Those who abandoned him so readily.

[CakeGrrl]

5. K/R

[flamingdem]

10. He got that right

and not enough in the media have the guts to say the conservatives / repukes are destroying our country.

They're wrecking Europe too with austerity.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. I don't see any difference between the ODSers and the Republican Party in that regard!

:kick:

[Mimosa]

20. The President is not 'Captain of a Ship' since he is an elected representative.

I'm not going to try to remind anybody of the Constitutional duties of the president of the United States.

I seriously doubt anybody but right wing Republicans want to destroy the President.

Most Democrats want President Obama to succeed in accomplishing the pledges he made when he won our votes.

[Skittles]

21. the captain HIMSELF is trying to sink the ship

WHOLE DIFFERENT BALLGAME THAR EMPOWERER

[golfguru]

25. Obama is moving towards center and Romney will

move to center, soon after he wins the nomination. Did Obama just approve the new trade pact with 3 countries? The march to center has begun.

[Dragonfli]

27. He was actually the most vocal about getting them passed, his was a very active role in that /nt

[Enrique]

26. I remember that sinking ship metaphor of Jackson's

I didn't remember the part about the captain, because that was only about 0.1% of the metaphor. Jackson was focusing 99.9% on the people drowning in the hull, i.e. the poor people.

He says, "Most, however, seem focused on protecting those in posh cabins, on the upper decks."

Of all the parts to excerpt, from an essay devoted to focusing attention on poor people, some people here at DU have chosen the part about the captain.

Here's a version that appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/jackson/7081396-452/america-cant-be-saved-from-the-top.html

[Supersedeas]

29. Creative social science, creative statistics, creative editing

"The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!"

A creatively snippet of Whitman.

[Enrique]

33. I'll see your Walt Whitman, and raise you a Grand Funk Railroad

"I'm your captain, yeah yeah yeah yeah..." :hi:

[Empowerer]

30. Rev. Jackson said this yesterday at the MLK event

I did not pull this quote from his Sun-Times piece. I quoted from his speech - accurately and in context.

However, it's kind of amusing to see YOU criticize anyone for choosing part of someone's remarks to quote . . . :-)

[a kennedy]

32. Is that to long for a bumper sticker???

Love it.