{"id":1022,"date":"2026-03-08T18:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:18:37","slug":"jesse-jacksons-son-swipes-at-obama-and-biden-after-politically-charged-eulogies-they-do-not-know-jesse-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson\u2019s son swipes at Obama and Biden after politically-charged eulogies: They \u2018do not know Jesse Jackson\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img data-document-id=\"cms\/api\/amp\/video\/AA1XMjXf\" data-reference=\"video\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Jesse Jackson Jr.\u00a0<\/strong>took a not-so-subtle swipe at three former Democratic presidents who spoke at his father\u2019s memorial service \u2014 <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Bill Clinton<\/strong>, <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Barack Obama<\/strong>, and <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Joe Biden<\/strong> \u2014 saying they did not know the real <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Jesse Jackson.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cYesterday I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson,\u201d he said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jackson Jr. continued, \u201cHe maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were White or Black, but the demands of our message, the demands of speaking for the least of these \u2014 those who are disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected \u2014 demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time sold us out as a people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The sharp opening to his eulogy was made in front of a crowd at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Jackson Jr. \u2014 who served as a Democratic representative from Illinois between 1995 and 2012 \u2014 made his remarks a day after the ex-presidents honored his father. Obama\u2019s speech was the most political of the three former presidents, with Obama clearly dissing President Donald Trump at one point, without mentioning him by name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cEach day, we\u2019re told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other, and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don\u2019t even count at all,\u201d Obama said. \u201cEverywhere we see greed and bigotry, being celebrated and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ex-Vice President <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Kamala Harris<\/strong> made similar comments, saying it was hard to believe Jackson was not around to help America \u201cget through\u201d Trump\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Clinton was less focused on politics, saying he was there \u201cmore as a friend than a former president. [Jackson] was my friend when I needed him.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image__wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify\">And Biden went viral on X for saying at one point he was \u201ca hell of a lot smarter than most of you\u201d \u2014 apparently aimed at people who laughed at him as a kid for having a stutter.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Watch Jackson Jr.\u2019s eulogy above via CBS Chicago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The post Jesse Jackson\u2019s Son Swipes at Obama and Biden After Politically-Charged Eulogies: They \u2018Do Not Know Jesse Jackson\u2019 first appeared on .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Jackson Jr.\u00a0took a not-so-subtle swipe at three former Democratic presidents who spoke at his father\u2019s memorial service \u2014 Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden \u2014 saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}