Send In The Clown!

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Jesse is here to save the day...hurray!

This ain't the same as the other little "good will" trips you've been on Jesse.... Americans want Osama's head on a stick this time.

Send In The Clown!

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), September 27, 2001

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CNN had the good Reverend on live this morning and Paula Zahn asked some hard questions. She mentioned that there were concerns that Jackson has lost the ‘moral authority’ to be involved in such a sensitive international issue. Jackson sidestepped this subject by lauding the past successes he has had with interventions of this sort. I say, ‘send the clown in’ and then mount-up the military.

Just my opinion.

-- Just (my@2.cents), September 27, 2001.


I wondered what the Jesse supporters on this forum think about his proposal to help in 'peace talks'. I think that Bush has stated he's not supporting Jesse on his little visit, but can't recall the report. IMO, Jesse is worse than the street vendors trying to make a buck off the attack. At least we know where the street vendors stand. Here Jesse is trying to come off like a 'humanitarian' when all the while he's only trying to advance himself, in a very selfish act. I think he's one of the most dishonest public figures around.

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), September 27, 2001.

Remember that scene in "War of the Worlds," where the peacemaking preacher walks up to the Martians, reciting the 23rd Psalm?

-- Unreel (cometo@tention.net), September 27, 2001.

Oh please, let it happen that way!

-- Adios (loud@mouth.brother), September 27, 2001.

The Talaban is trying to inflict the Rev. Jesse on us once again? Now THATS an act of War!

-- E.H.Porter (just.wondering@about.it), September 27, 2001.


As perhaps the only person left who appreciates Jesse, I can only say that the only thing I've read about this is that the Taliban invited him and he hasn't yet decided whether to go. I seem to remember him invited to North Vietnam, as well. It seems to be SOP.

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), September 27, 2001.

Well, if Jesse can get us out of this without major bloodshed, let him try.

-- helen (not@going.with.him.myself), September 27, 2001.

Now we are hearing that the Taliban is saying that they never asked Jackson to come….what a surprise! I believe that the relatives of the 8 aid workers held in Afghanistan are trying anything on earth to get their people out. Who can blame them? Jackson will do what Jackson will do…..it’s how he makes his money. His concerns will not dovetail with our governments so let him head on over there. Should he get his ass blown-up when we make our moves…..bonus kill.

Helen, there will be some bloodshed, lots of bloodshed. If some of it is Jackson’s, I can surely live with that.

Just my opinion

-- Just (my@2.cents), September 27, 2001.


Now we are hearing that the Taliban is saying that they never asked Jackson to come

May I ask where WE heard that?

-- Anita (Anita_S3@hotmail.com), September 27, 2001.


Well, I don't know where anyone else heard it, but *I* heard it on the O'Reilly Factor. It's on Fox News right now and the Jackson news is coming up.

-- Bill (O'Reilly@wouldn't.lie), September 27, 2001.


With Paulie here. If Jackson manages to insert himself I'm gonna break something.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), September 28, 2001.

Link

U.S. Cool to a Jackson Mission

By RALPH R. ORTEGA Daily News Staff Writer

he leader of the Taliban welcomed the Rev. Jesse Jackson to come meet with him in Afghanistan yesterday but denied he ever asked the civil rights leader to intervene.

Jackson said he received a telegram asking him to help mediate. "It doesn't matter who initiated this, but that both of us are interested in talking," he said.

The White House says it doesn't care who asked whom — it sees no reason for Jackson to go.

"Rev. Jackson is fully aware of our position. ... We have nothing to negotiate," said Secretary of State Powell.

"He is free to travel," Powell added. "I don't know what purpose would be served right now, since the position of the United States and the international community is quite clear."

Jackson said he had not decided whether to head a delegation to meet with representatives of militia leader Mullah Mohammed Omar in Pakistan, the only country that still has diplomatic relations with Afghanistan.

The mullah, who is blind in one eye, even offered to bring Jackson to dirt-poor Afghanistan.

The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan told reporters that Omar "has accepted his [Jackson's] offer to mediate between the Taliban and America, and we will provide him our best possible facilities to visit Afghanistan."

Washington sees the talk of Jackson's involvement as a stall tactic.

"We're not interested in a dialogue," Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told NBC. "We're interested in action and not negotiation."

President Bush has demanded the Taliban hand over Bin Laden, who he says is behind the Sept. 11 suicide plane attacks on New York and Washington.

Jackson's spokesman Lou Colasuonno said the reverend spent most of yesterday consulting with other leaders, including United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and former President Jimmy Carter.

Jackson anticipated he would use the visit to press for Bush's demands. But there is another goal: Freeing two young American aid workers jailed in the poverty-stricken nation for preaching Christianity — which the Islamic Taliban regime considers a capital offense.

The U.S. refrained from outright condemning Jackson's possible mission because of his success in freeing imprisoned Americans in other parts of the world.

"He got a personal appeal from the parents of the Americans," Colasuonno said.

Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer of Waco, Tex., and six other foreign-aid workers, have been jailed since August.

"There is nothing to be gained by holding them as trophies of this war," Jackson said on CBS.

Original Publication Date: 9/28/01

-- Carlos (is@cutie.pie), September 28, 2001.


It is being widely reported that the Taliban are saying they “DID NOT” initiate an invitation to Jesse Jackson to meet with them. Instead, they said that Jackson sent THEM a communication asking for a meeting. Two days ago, I watched him say on National TV that the “Taliban contacted him first”. This will turn out to be his biggest mistake and remove what little credibility he had left. Most people just assumed he was a bullshit artist but now the whole world knows that to be a fact.

Clowns are funny….Jackson is just a joke.

-- So (cr@t.es), September 30, 2001.


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