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| Jesse Jr. tells The Daily he's 'not well' | |
| 2012-10-17 | |
| His constituents haven't seen him in four months. His staff insists he is too depressed for public appearances. But The Daily found Jesse Jackson Jr. smoking a cigar on the stoop of his $1.3 million home yesterday, the same day he was accused of bilking his campaign funds and drinking away his nights with women who aren't his wife. In his first interview since taking a leave of absence in early June, the Illinois congressman -- sitting with his father, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson Sr. -- talked about his health and how he is spending his time with Election Day less than a month away and his job on the line. In late summer, Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson announced that her husband had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was being treated at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Jackson told The Daily that he is "not well" and has doctor's appointments twice a day at George Washington University Hospital, not far from his home in the trendy DuPont Circle neighborhood: "I go over there ... at 10 [a.m.] and 1 p.m." When The Daily's photographer took his picture earlier in the day, Jackson explained he had been "picking up my kids." He didn't elaborate on whether he was headed to the school or had just returned when he decided to take a cigar break on the steps, resting his lit Monte Cristo on a wall leading up to the front entrance of his red-brick Victorian. On the driveway were a cigar butt, a cigar band, a half-foot pile of ashes and a nearly full box of matches.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 You mean having his flowing golden locks flutter about while riding his chariot through asia minor is strange for him? Now smoking a deep fried sandwich, that is weird. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-10-17 16:33 |
#5 "I go over there ... at 10 [a.m.] and 1 p.m." Do the math -- there's only three hours between 10am and 1pm. Take an hour away for lunch, and that leaves two hours. Just WTF are we supposed to believe is being done for those two hours? I frankly don't care that he's "in trouble and needs help". He's a corrupt son of a bitch and should be being treated in a prison hospital. His continued presence in Congress is an insult to the entire country. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2012-10-17 11:01 |
| #4 I for one am anxiously awaiting the legal actions which will clearly show who is to blame, and who must be held accountable for Triple-J's condition. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-10-17 05:22 |
| #3 has doctor's appointments twice a day Urine tests. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2012-10-17 01:23 |
| #2 If he's spending most of each day at the hospital they must believe they've got his body clean and on the right meds, and his mind stabilized enough that he no longer needs to lbe confined to the residential psych ward. Now he's working on dealing with his issues and getting ready to face his world again. I imagine they won't take his name off the ballot in order to give him hope that his world will be there when he is ready to rejoin it, beyond the politicl issues pointed out in Dr. Steve's article. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-10-17 00:52 |
| #1 Like him or not. He is in trouble and needs help. I hope he takes the time to get his life straight... |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2012-10-17 00:18 |