Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

People all over America recognize that the creation of jobs is the top issue facing our nation. But when President Obama requested to address a joint session of Congress on the issue, unlike any president in memory, he was told he must come back the next day.

During an address...

The Great Recession has hit minorities and women the hardest with the highest unemployment, the most home foreclosures, the biggest budget cuts and the resulting slow economic growth. On the day that the committee was formed, I sent a letter to both parties' leaders in the House and the Senate...

Introduction
Tonight, or in the very near future, I want everyone within the sound of my voice to read or re-read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech -- a speech that I usually refer to as his "Insufficient Funds or Bounced Check" speech.

I have...

But as quickly as we plug one leak, another springs forth.

Congress is seeking to avoid deflation by pumping up public...

The Republicans tried to make fun of Barack Obama as a community organizer at their national convention in Minnesota, which I guess just goes to show how little Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have to fear from right-wing "humor."

Now they've gone further: Now they're attacking ACORN (Association of Community...

A few months ago, Mark Nicholas posted a strategy memo from John McCain's campaign manager--and famous lobbyist--Rick Davis (hat tips to blogger Mark Nicholas, and Ari Berman of the Nation):

Here's a key line from that memo: "John McCain will continue to run on...

Time is growing very short, but there is still time to register high school seniors who will be 18 by election day!

I encourage our public school systems to seriously take on this civic-minded, nonpartisan project. And I encourage our public school superintendents, our school boards, our PTA leaders, our...

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in the laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with...

What is the deal with rich Republicans and their houses?

John McCain has at least 8 houses, too many for him to keep count. Sarah Palin likes to quietly charge the State of Alaska per diem for sleeping in her own house at night. George W. Bush built a fake...

When one thinks about the bitter political feuds in recent years - Blagojevich vs. Madigan; Madigan vs. Jones; Jackson vs. Daley or Rush or Halvorson; the Tribune/Sun-Times vs. Stroger - one can't help but think Illinois is in need of reconciliation.

But with all of our feuding, we have much...

This is a defining moment in history as Senator Barack Obama is poised to become the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Senator Obama's nomination confirms Dr. King's observation that 'the moral arc of the universe' is long, but bends toward freedom and justice for all.

Senator Obama personifies a...

Senator Barack Obama's speech today was eloquent, insightful and unprecedented.

Unlike the analysis of race that conservatives, liberals and progressives have made in the past, Senator Obama's marriage of race with the nation's economic challenges was deeper and broader than any speech given in recent memory. He brilliantly steered this...

At her campaign celebration last night in Ohio, Hillary Clinton raised the specter of a nasty, divisive fight at the Democratic National Convention, claiming that she should be the party's nominee based on her big state victories, rather than on the pledged-delegate count. It was a slick and sophisticated attempt...

The American people have grown tired of the Bush Administration's Iraq war games. Every day it becomes clearer to all of us that intelligence information was creatively interpreted at best, manipulated at worst, in order to suit the President's bias and pre-conceived notions. For example, the Bush Administration's strong ideological...