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A Family Affair?

close…
too close…
for comfort…
or credibility...

If Project Vote and Miner’s firm introduced Obama to the city’s lakefront liberals and South Side politicians, it was his wife who helped connect him to Chicago’s black élite.  One of Michelle’s best friends was Jesse Jackson’s daughter Santita, who became the godmother of the Obamas’ first child. Michelle had worked as an aide to the younger Daley—hired by Valerie Jarrett, who is now one of Obama’s closest advisers. (Jarrett, an African-American, was born in Iran, where her father, a doctor, helped run a hospital; she and Obama formed a bond over their unusual biographies.) It was also through Michelle that Obama met Marty Nesbitt, a successful young black entrepreneur who happened to play basketball with Michelle’s brother, Craig. (Nesbitt’s wife, Anita Blanchard, an obstetrician, delivered the Obamas’ two daughters.) Nesbitt became Obama’s closest friend and a bridge to the city’s African-American business class.

Jesse Jackson’s latest: “Barack…he’s talking down to black people…telling n*****s how to behave."

[That’s part of the same tape wherein he exclaimed his desire to remove to Obama’s naughty bits.]

Yep.  The same Jackson who also called for an end to the use of the “N-word” by all people - including hip-hop arteests and black comedians and who dragged Michael Richards across the coals for his use of the word then turned right around and called for the boycott of the just-released Seinfeld videos, anyway.

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