What's up with Jesse Jackson NOT APPLAUDING Gore & Clinton?

[spooked]

When C-Span showed Jesse Jackson in the audience at the end of both speeches, he was standing there with his hands clasped across his stomach while the crowd was cheering wildly.

What's up with that?!

[trumad]

1. He was secretly having an affair with Tipper and Hillary

and they broke it off.... He's still pissed!

[Dirty Hippie]

12. I was wondering who was that cute guy standing beside Chelsea? n/t

[spooked]

13. That's her boyfriend Ian Klaus

He was at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar when Chelsea studied there.

Klaus was also a soccer star at Washington University



More here:
http://www.andover.edu/publications/alumni_profiles/klaus_i_spr_01.htm

[spooked]

14. Here's a GREAT photo of Chelsea and Ian together

[DoomFook]

27. Cutie

God, he's so yummy looking; what a lucky girl.

[Paradise]

2. I was wondering, as well. ??? :( n/t

[wndycty]

3. I think someone needs a life. . .

. . .so he was not applauding. . .did you notice who he was sitting with? Madeline Albright and Chelsea. . .methinks someone is looking for a controversy where one does not exist.

[spooked]

9. Need a life?

What kind of comment is that? I value my life very much thank you.

[H2O Man]

15. I think the comment was

directed to the FACT that Clinton has no more loyal and decent of a friend than Jesse. It's not necessary for Jesse to act like a 15-year old girl at a Beatle concert in 1964. There is absolutely no problem with Rev. Jesse and his good friends at the convention. Thus, the comment was a gentle hint that you would benefit from investing your energy in something more serious.

[Selwynn]

23. Polite applause is just common courtesy - instead he looked like an ass

[itcfish1]

19. The Cameras

Probably focused on him when he stopped clapping. Remember when they did that with Hillary and the Chimps SOTU?

[Judi Lynn]

20. Truly. I've never heard of the APPLAUSE POLICE!

The clap cop is breathing down people's necks he feels aren't pulling their weight. He probably has no idea what he's talking about.

Jesse Jackson is a close friend of the Clintons, has been for years. He doesn't have to perform for anyone. Besides, how does our clap cop know he hadn't been clapping his hands until they bled earlier?

Pathetic. It really takes all kinds.

[southlandshari]

I agree

I watched a rerun of Carter's speech on CSPAN today and the camera flashed on Jesse Jackson after his speech as well, and he wasn't clapping or smiling, and they are good friends from way back.

That said, Jesse Jackson was grinning ear to ear and clapping for Obama Barak tonight. I think it is just timing of the camera shots more than anything.

[southlandshari]

30. self delete

duplicate post - sorry!

[DemExpat]

4. He was in awe.......

and savoring the moment......???

:D

DemEx

[AVID]

5. hard to make judgement from 2 second clip

I noticed it, but he seemed transfixed by the message.

[qanda]

6. You may be reading too much into it

I believe he was standing up and if you saw his face, he looked like he was amazed. Sometimes in the black church ministers just stand and don't clap. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

[spooked]

7. True, he looked engrossed but it still seems strange

I wonder what he was doing after all the other speeches.

[TeacherCreature]

33. why would you care?

How odd that you are choosing to focus on this. Maybe he was thinking about the message or taking in the moment. Good lord, the clap police, as if DU wasn't recently acting like the left version of FR as it is.

Is there some valid reason to pick appart all of our leaders?

[jpyron]

8. Maybe I was looking too deep in it too

I noticed that right off the bat when they would pan to Madeline Albright and Chelsea.

[wndycty]

10. Yeah if you want to read something into it. . .

. . .realize that he was sitting with Albright and Chelsea, I think that says a lot more than anything else.

[mac56]

11. Looking for clues where none exist.

nm

[JerseygirlCT]

16. I was wondering, too

I hope it means nothing. But it did look strange. Right from Madeline Albright, looking like a teenager at a rock concert (you go girl!) to Jesse with his hands crossed over his stomach...

Don't know.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

17. Sometimes when I am REALLY

into a speech, I don't even REALIZE I'm not clapping. It's happened to me.

And did you see his FACE? Completely and totally mesmerized.

So what's the big deal?

[MetaTrope]

18. They were all tripping on MDMA

It's what gave the speeches that special zing!

[JI7]

21. it looked to me like he was seriously paying attention to the words

sometimes even during speeches meant to arouse the audience some people seem to pay attention in a different way. like he was having some in depth thoughts about the things they were saying. he was carefully paying attention. if he was angry or anything he would have just sat there or put on a false act of being happy as he was with bush at the urban league speech.

[Selwynn]

22. I wondered that too - he looked seriously pissed, and it was conspicuous

[Selwynn]

24. BTW, the people who didn't actually SEE it should shut up.

I saw it, and it wasn't just someone not applauding, it felt more like as if someone had come right into the the middle of the proceedings with a big protest sign - he didn't appear anything other than extremely pissed to me, and while I'm not saying that there is some law that you should applaud or whatever, I'm not talking about during the speech, this came at the introduction - and it was conspicuous and felt ungracious to make what felt like such a deliberate point of not giving basic courteous respect to the former president.

[spooked]

25. I just caught Bill Clinton again on C-Span

and I didn't realize Jackson wasn't clapping at the intro.,
BEFORE Clinton even started speaking, so obviously, he was not "mesmerized" by his words.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

29. He does look seriously pissed everytime they show him.

Maybe he wanted to speak and they wouldn't let him.

[TeacherCreature]

34. I saw it and I will not shut up

Why the hell are you attacking Jesse Jackson? Wasn't it you who spent a whole rant on people who sat at their computers and complained about stupid shit rather than doing something useful?

[DoomFook]

26. Don't Blame Him

Hey, probably not a good sport but honestly I think they over choreographed this thing and have put some of the true spirit of the party under wraps. While I agree it's the right strategy to rid this country of dumbo, it makes me a little sad that they do it at the expense of heros like Jesse who worked so hard for civil rights.

[Judi Lynn]

28. I have NEVER seen anything this stupid at D.U.

You have NO IDEA what was going on there, what was going on around him, what duties he had during the proceedings, what he was also thinking about, etc., etc., etc.

I have seen HUNDREDS of slimes during my life who use bogus means to try to take a wild, vicious kick at someone they don't like, while pretending to do something else. I'll bet you can't even believe anyone would have been filthy enough to call someone Martin Luther Nigger just because they didn't like the thought he was someone who wouldn't suck up to them.

There's no need to speculate, to conjecture why the sky doesn't fall on Jesse because he didn't by god CLAP when you imagined he should.

I've seen a handful of people passing by DU who made absolute jackasses of themselves, lying, contriving, back stabbing, etc, etc. but this is not only all of the above, it's also profoundly STUPID.

[spooked]

31. IF You had bothered to READ my post

I made an observation and asked a simple question:

"What's up with that?" I did not make any judgements or criticize Jackson.

I happen to like Jesse Jackson very much and VOTED for him during the 1988 Presidential Primaries in Massachusetts when everyone around me was voting for Dukakis.

To accuse me of "Lying", "Contriving" and "Back-Stabbing" is way over-the-top.

Don't you realize that there are enough people to hate in the world already without your working so hard to give us another?

[H2O Man]

32. I agree....

The original post belongs on a right-wing forum. It's easier to see it coming out of Sean Hannity's mouth than from DU.