Jackson has a long history with one of Obama's chief rivals, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband former President Clinton. He counseled the two when the president's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky became public.
But Jackson said his history with the Clintons doesn't complicate his decision to back his home state senator, calling Obama Illinois' "favorite son."
"It's not awkward at all," he said, adding, "I don't owe a debt to any of them."
How much does Al Sharpton owe?
— Jesse Jackson Rainbow Coalition
Michael has said all this as well as anyone can!
Jimmy has been twisting and lying about his opponents from day one, he is proving that once again with this meme about Foley using paid gatherers. Mole and Dan's spin on the highly trained and carefully crafted gatherers is truly a joke. Jimmy had a tiny crew, no strngth in regard to a grassroots campaign. The petitions were not validated, 243 were tossed out of hand and with only a 165 cushion and 263 challenges left for the courts to decide I will tell Dahroug supporters not to be poping the champaign corks yet! Even if Jimmy survives the challenge, he will be slithering into the September primary with the shame of barely meeting the minimum requirements to qualify, an 83k bankbook 15k of which is loans that can.t be spent. He will lose decisively in September and can only achieve redirecting Foley campaign focus away from Trunzo for the next six weeks. But why not, it always was and has been all about Jimmy anyway!