Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., went to great lengths earlier this summer to distance himself from his father after the infamous “hot mic” comments from the elder Jackson criticizing Barack Obama for “talking down to black people.”
But on stage in Denver Monday night, Rep. Jackson’s oratory was right out of his father’s playbook. “I know that Dr. Martin Luther King is looking down, exulting that this is the very first national political convention held within actual sight of the mountaintop,” Jackson said. After listing milestones in the quest for civil rights, including the Emancipation Proclamation, he declared: “So shall it be in Denver, Colorado, with the nomination of Barack Obama for president of the United States of America.”
