Jeff Zeleny: There Is No Doubt, Without Jesse Jackson, ‘President Obama Would Not Have Been Elected in 2008’

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ZELENY: “Look, when you consider the bridge that Reverend Jackson was, from being with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968, 20 years later, delivering that speech, 20 years after that, Barack Obama being elected. No, progress is not a straight line, but Reverend Jackson is a towering, consequential figure of 20th century American politics. I mean, there is just no one who stands with him. And to your point, he did say in his speech, I'm not a perfect servant, but I'm a public servant. He acknowledged his shortcomings.”