Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. Gives President Obama Mixed Grades on His First Year’s Accomplishments

Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., gives President Obama a mixed report card after his first year in office including “some A’s, some incomplete grades, and a low mark for the stimulus package which helped large banks while the “middle class is sinking.” Reverend Jackson made the comments during a new half-hour interview program the Inside View with Vic Henderson which will be broadcast January 31, at 5:30 p.m. on WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago. The program is sponsored in part by ComEd.

(PRWEB) January 28, 2010 -- Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., gives President Obama a mixed report card after his first year in office including “some A’s, some I’s” and a low mark for the stimulus package which helped large banks while the “middle class is sinking.”

Reverend Jackson made the comments during a new half-hour interview program the Inside View with Vic Henderson which will be broadcast January 31, at 5:30 p.m. on WTTW Channel 11.

“It’s in the President’s interest to hear the voices of the canaries in the mine who cry out for justice, who cry out for jobs because we too as Langston Hughes would say, we too sing America,” Rev. Jesse Jackson, advocating a targeted jobs plan

Jackson commended the President for taking on health care reform, but said any legislation without a public option is a “victory with many scars.” He pointed to health problems of African Americans saying “We’re number one in infant mortality, number one in short life expectancies.” http://www.insideviewtv.com

Regarding the President’s commitment of more troops to Afghanistan, “This issue to go into Afghanistan was a huge decision. It’s highly risky. You have to hope it succeeds but it does not appear it is going to.”

When asked if he had been invited to the Oval Office to meet with the President, Jackson said no, and that he was not familiar with other civil rights leaders being invited to meet with the President.

“It’s in the President’s interest to hear the voices of the canaries in the mine who cry out for justice, who cry out for jobs because we too as Langston Hughes would say, we too sing America,” said Jackson.

Jackson criticized the President and Congress for not having a targeted jobs plan already in place noting that the same effort at rebuilding Afghanistan could be directed at rebuilding the Chicago communities of Englewood and Lawndale.

The civil rights leader gave the President high marks for going to Egypt in June and speaking in Cairo on religious diversity and overcoming religious wars, calling it “a most profound speech.”

When asked how he felt as a father to two of his sons being discussed in media reports involving charges of former Governor Rod Blagojevich trying to sell Senator Obama’s Senate seat he replied: “It’s just foolishness and lies, and I don’t want to dignify it.”

In the interview with Henderson, Jackson also discussed his civil rights work in Chicago in the 1960s, working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and some recent developments in Illinois and Cook County politics.

Inside View with Vic Henderson is sponsored in part by Commonwealth Edison Company.

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