Jackson has a long history with one of Obama's chief rivals, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband former President Clinton. He counseled the two when the president's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky became public.
But Jackson said his history with the Clintons doesn't complicate his decision to back his home state senator, calling Obama Illinois' "favorite son."
"It's not awkward at all," he said, adding, "I don't owe a debt to any of them."
How much does Al Sharpton owe?
— Jesse Jackson Rainbow Coalition
More questions for McMahon... ...and a dismal record too!
How about Iran, preemptive war as a first resort, right to contraception info, unconstitutional executions?
As a Staten Islander I am aghast not only by the conduct of the Democratic Committee bosses in Richmond County, but the Advance and others as well. McMahon is another Fossella/Bush clone. The question that is not asked, but pushed by self-serving assumptions, is one to the Democratic voters on Staten Island: Would you rather be red just not to be a part of New York City? I weigh in on that at a resounding NO! But that question is not even asked of the voters; it is merely imposed by taking it for granted. And I would suggest that some entity or citizens group in the County of Kings in the 13th Congressional District file a federal action against both the Richmond County Democratic and Republican Committees for violating the voting rights and the elections laws to disenfranchise the voters in Brooklyn who are registered in both parties for voting and I would further suggest that the Working Families Party and any other recognized political party in the County of Richmond who likewise did so should be enjoined and an immediate injunction be applied for to stay any elections proceedings pending a resolution of this fundamental Constitutional issue. How many more candidates are there out there who are virtually silenced and hindered from free and open elections by the party bosses of these committees at the expense of the public besides Steve Harrison? Exclusion is defiantly not a principle of the Democrat Party.
Ask McMahon questions about the following:
Iran Issue:
Would he support a preemptive invasion of Iran like the one of Iraq without diplomacy, UN inspections, or UN support?
Would he commit troops and more billions of dollars to occupy and rebuild post invasion of Iran?
Would he support a universal military draft to enlist more, and freshen existing, troops for either an expanding of war to Iran and/or prolonging it in Iraq?
Would he support the shifting of the same troops from Iraq to Iran rather than bring them home at all?
What legislative and policy measure would he promulgate or support to reduce or eliminate the record number of suicides among American troops in Iraq, Iran or anywhere else?
Would he suggest, pre-invasion, an exit strategy from Iran and would he apply it to only Iran and not Iraq and what would be the difference?
Would he support universal rescinding of existing and/or prohibition of any further, grants, subsidies, tax breaks or incentives to the citizens of the United States to raise the funds for expanding and/or prolonging war in either Iraq or Iran or both?
Would he support rescinding tax breaks and shelters from the wealthiest of Americans to assist in fundraising for any expanding and/or prolonging of the wars in either Iran and/or Iraq?
Would he oppose any expansion of veteran’s benefits (particularly to wounded veterans) to veterans of Iraq and extend that further to veterans of Iran as well?
Would he in his office in the name of the Democratic Party oppose the policies and proposed policies of the Democrat President of the United States, President Obama?
Unconstitutional Executions:
Would he support the unquestioned unconstitutional execution of the Death Penalty not only on foreign nationals but on American citizens as well?
Would he support unilaterally the removal of the United States from the list of member nations of NATO to act independently to go to war and to rescind any treaties regarding war and the use of distasteful weapons including nuclear weapons and proliferation?
Would he support unilaterally the removal of the United States from the list of member nations to the United Nations to act independently to go to war and to rescind any treaties regarding war and the treatment of both troops and civilians internationally by withdrawing the United States from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and/or the Geneva Convention?
Would he support impeachment and/or criminal prosecutions of any public servant who violates the Constitution and the rule of law and/or overtly refuses to obey, comply with or abide by the rule of law by tyranny and insurrection against the Constitution of the United States?
Would he support prosecution and the imposition of the death penalty against public servants who commit crimes against humanity?
Would he support openly and honestly any official or legitimate redistricting of the 13th Congressional District so as not to violate the Constitutional rights of voters who reside in that district but who reside in the County of Kings without any voice on the above questions and others?
Anti-Free Choice Measures:
Would he support prohibition of the choice to exercise the right of contraception in addition to that of abortion?
Would he support full cradle to maturity government subsidies of all child care and rearing expenses including college funds accounts for all “unwanted children?’
Would he support reinstate and meaning Welfare to support all children from cradle at maturity including college funds accounts for children of the poor?
Would he support any federal legislation or Constitutional amendment to prohibit consumers from selling, purchasing or otherwise trading in commerce in any lawful goods and services to socially engineer by prohibited freedom of choice on anything, including contraceptives and/or any family planning goods and services without restriction?
Would he support new federal legislation similar to state legislative trends in several states to make unconstitutional laws now scheduled to become effective upon future Supreme Court decisions be they on the issue of abortion or any other social or religious issue?
Would he support judicial appointment of conservative judges and justices to legislate from the bench, particularly to invoke immediate effectiveness of laws calculated to kick in as soon as a decision is rendered accordingly, be they on any issue including on reproductive rights?
No doubt that as long as this list gets it only scratches the surface. But McMahon has already answered some of these questions, which basically relate to his already dismal record, his disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law or of justice and moral standards and his temperament towards war and metering out death without regard to the Constitution.
1. He voted against the City Council RES 549-A in March of 2003 that was not even an anti-war resolution but calling for caution in invading Iraq other then as a last resort and not without completed weapons inspection, exhausting all diplomatic efforts first and not without gaining support from NATO allies and the UN General council first. President Bush refused all these criteria and thumbed his nose at the world and America’s allies and only after the fact tried to put together an international “coalition of the willing.” The City Council showed enormous integrity and courage to pass that resolution overwhelmingly and McMahon choose to disregard his Democrat collogues to vote against caution and them and with the GOP members of the council in partisan support of the Bush administration’s unilateral agenda of preemptive war with no planning or exit strategy or support from the international community, or completed inspections or exhausting all diplomatic efforts.
2. He voted against the City Council RES 12-A in June 26, 2002 likewise disregarding the overwhelming majority of his Democrat collogues to vote against them and the Constitution, for the purpose to disregard it, and with the GOP members of the council by partisan standards. This too was not even an anti-death penalty resolution but merely called for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty until the unconstitutional status of the state’s death penalty law could be resolved.
3. He also voted no to EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION INFORMATION AT PHARMACIES to hinder consumers in their exercise of their rights to shop for legal emergency contraceptives. This was far beyond any anti-abortion or any other free choice measure.