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Communicating with what he thought was an off-the-air comment, Jesse Jackson singed the hairs of Barack Obama with his rhetoric, as he blasted the presumptive Democratic candidate.

His comments were controversial, to say the least, and there's no reason he should get away with them, even though he has apologized. Jackson has been less than gracious to others that have made dumb comments in the past, and by his own past actions against them, needs to be taken to task.

Leaning over to talk to another panelist on "Fox & Friends," Jackson said, "See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith based ... I wanna cut his (testicles) off ... Barack ... he's talking down to black people." (Jackson used a different "n" word when referring to the male body part.)

What's interesting about this to me, is it sounds like Obama was actually doing some good stuff here. Jessie Jackson doesn't like Obama telling people in the black community about morality? I guess his past indiscretions bother him to the point of hatred for Obama.

Even Jackson's son, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., was appalled with what he called "ugly rhetoric," coming from his dad.

"I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama," Jackson said. "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."

What this is all about is the lifelong pursuit of the promotion of victimhood by Jackson, which is undercut and weakened when Obama is talking about taking personal responsibility to black audiences. (Of course all people need to hear that message.)

For Jesse Jackson to call this "talking down to black people" doesn't make any sense to me.

Jackson tried to cover his rearend by saying, "My appeal was for the moral content of his message to not only deal with the personal and moral responsibility of black males, but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government..."

At least Jackson is being honest in his statement above, because that is exactly what he has foisted on the public and black men for years; that it's "them" keeping you back, rather than yourselves.

It seems to me that Jackson is caught in a time warp that no longer exists, and hurts, rather than helps, young black males.

This isn't to say there's not places to make improvements etc., just that it reveals how deeply angered and single-minded Jesse Jackson is in the way he looks at the world. I think it hurts him, and others, in the day and age we now live in.

To me, what Obama has been saying about personal and moral responsibility is one of the better things he's been talking about. To undermine that in the vicious way Jackson did was very small indeed.