Jessie Jackson wants Obama's Nuts!

Jesse Jackson commented over an open microphone:

“I want to cut his nuts off.”

Jesse Jackson should get in line. Many people want his balls. I personally know of 30 men and women who would love to shorten the Junior Senator from Illinois.

At a hastily arranged news conference Wednesday evening in Chicago, Jackson said he supports Obama “unequivocally” and that he hopes to “get this behind me.”

“I have great passion for this campaign and traveled across the country … arguing the case for the campaign,” Jackson said. “And this thing I said in a hot-mic statement that’s interpreted as a distraction, I offer apology for that. I don’t want harm or hurt to come to this campaign.”

He said, “They were hurtful and wrong … but we have a relationship that can survive this.”

But he still wants his balls.

This isn't the first time Jackson has had problems with an "open microphone". There was that little incident in January 1984 where he referred to Jews as Hymies and New York City as Hymietown, during a conversation with Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman. Jackson at first denied the remarks, then accused Jews of conspiring to defeat him. The Nation of Islam's leader Louis Farrakhan, threatened Coleman in a radio broadcast and issuing a public warning to Jews, made in Jackson's presence: "If you harm this brother [Jackson], it will be the last one you harm." Jackson refused to denounce Farrakhan, and continuing suspicions have led to an enduring split between Jackson and many Jews.

Yet the Obama camp instead of distancing themselves from this anti-Semitic racist, is openly embracing him.

Jackson told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he doesn’t remember exactly what he said Sunday but that he was “very sorry” for his comments about Obama. He called his comments “a side light in a broader conversation about urban disparities.”

Jackson said he has called Obama’s campaign to apologize.

Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton noted that the Illinois senator grew up without his father and has spoken and written at length about the issues of parental responsibility and fathers participating in their children’s lives, and of society’s obligation to provide “jobs, justice and opportunity for all.

“He will continue to speak out about our responsibilities to ourselves and each other, and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson’s apology,” Burton said.

Just another example of Obama's poor judgment in people. And still another reason not to vote for Obama.