Jesse Jackson helps out

The Reverend Jesse Jackson was caught on camera saying he'd like to cut Barack Obama's nuts off for the way the senator has been talking down to black people.

Well, that was a lucky break for the Obama campaign.

If not for Rev. Jackson's astonishing mistake -- once you're wired up with a microphone in a television studio, somebody can hear everything you say whether the red light is on or not -- everyone might be talking today about Senator Barack Obama's outrageous and insulting remarks about Americans who speak no language other than English.

On Tuesday, Senator Obama was speaking to a town hall meeting outside Atlanta when he told a crowd that foreign languages deserve more emphasis in American classrooms. "It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here," the senator said. "They all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is merci beaucoup.”

On Wednesday, Senator Obama spoke at a town hall meeting in Powder Springs, Georgia, and told parents, "You need to make sure that your child can speak Spanish."

Did Barack Obama really just say he's embarrassed by the American people, and that the American people speak the wrong language to get by in their own country?

It's a good thing everybody's talking about Jesse Jackson cutting off his nuts, or somebody might have noticed.


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