Sandi confirmed NBC's Andrea Mitchell report that Jackson was receiving treatment in facility in Arizona. At her request, Jackson's brother Yusef took him to the Sierra Tucson Treatment Center in Arizona. She denied the part of the report that said her husband was suffering from alcoholism and addiction.
Doctors at the Arizona facility determined Jackson's depression might be connected to a weight-loss surgery he had a few years ago, and that's when he was referred to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Sandi Jackson siad her husband is doing better now, but he's still having "his good days and bad days." She said they're increasing his depression medication to therapeutic levels, and that doctors are still trying to confirm the link between his depression and his weight-loss surgery.
His family visits regularly, and they're taking the recovery process one day at a time. "I fully expect him to return to work, but not a day before the doctor says its OK. Thats the word we are waiting for," she said.
Jackson's office didn't offer any sort of explanation for his disappearance until two weeks after he was admitted to the hospital. Sandi Jackson said he's been under a "news blackout" since he entered treatment, dismissing the theory her husband was hiding from a bribery investigation into his friend, Raghuveer Nayak. Nayak wasn't arrested until June 20, ten days after Jackson disappeared.
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no mention of investigation of the bribe his minions offered Blago?
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dismissing the theory her husband was hiding from a bribery investigation into his friend, Raghuveer Nayak.....wew! But the timing was pretty goo.
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He's gotta come out sometime soon to campaign. Even his district won't elect an absentee congress critter...
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Steve, c'mon! This is Illinois we're talking about. He's Jesse Jackson, JR, fer crying out loud. He doesn't need to campaign. He just needs to say "I'm Jesse Jackson JR, and I approved this message"
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If I was that big of a scumbag I'd be depressed. But I'm thinking if you're shameless enough to become that big of a scumbag you wouldn't be depressed about it. You'd be living large like all the rest of the kleptocracy. Must be something else.
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The people of the 2nd district in Illinois previously elected Gus Savage and Mel Reynolds to represent them. Can you say "stuck on stupid"?
it hits blacks and whites and in between, poor and rich, morally good and morally bad, tall and short, lean and fat
in some cases the disease is easily treatable in others the doctors struggle to keep up
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combined with bribery, racial hucksterism, alcoholism, drugs, adultery, it can be exacerbated
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If the dude is so depressed that he can't show up for work, it is time for him to retire and let someone else do the job. He will make fat money in retirement.
Of all the people in the world, U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Godfather II. Doesnt he remind you of Sen. Pat Geary, the totally corrupt solon in the classic movie. Like the hypocritical Geary, Reid puts the blast on Romney for doing something he himself does refusing to release his taxes.
Mitt, I know James Michael Curley said, Never complain, never explain. Generally speaking, he was right. But youre running against the Outfit here, and theres nothing they wont do. Refresh yourself about Baracks Senate election in Illinois and the suddenly released divorce records of both his Democrat and Republican foes. Recall the 2008 presidential campaign, and the abject lies Obamas media rumpswabs knowingly peddled. Remember The New York Times [NYT] stories about John McCains mistress who wasnt, or Todd Palins membership in the Alaska National Party, which likewise was totally false. How many piss-poor columns has Gail Collins written about Seamus the dog on the roof, but Barack Obama actually eating dogs ... crickets please.
Mitt, cant you find some Republican as sleazy as Harry Reid to start making charges about Barry Soetoro. I mean, youre running against the capo of the Choom Gang, a guy with multiple names, multiple birthplaces, somebody who gave up his law license for never-explained reasons, a guy with a Social Security number from a state he never lived in.
And you turn the other cheek? You should have given Rich Gorka a raise for ripping into those Barack bumkissers in Poland. Instead, you benched him.
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Dinghy Harry would be well-served to just shut up. He's got dirty underwear and dirty linen. The Donks are lobbing spitballs and rolling around in the mud. Tennessee Rep. Scott DeJarlais was accused by the Donks of taking money from Chinese pr0stituti0n for his campaign. The only prostitution going on here is Donk pr0stituti0n of the truth.
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There are lots of things we would like to say to the Donk leaders that would be newsworthy and get under their skin, but the MSM will not permit it. Even if Mitt began to give better than he got, they'd call it "hateful and hurtful".
I think the MSM are correct for suggesting that Mitt is a wimp, but are not correct in suggesting why they are correct: not because he has no "sex appeal", but he won't respond. Jesus did not respond to the patently wild-ass attacks, but he DID respond to the more plausible ones. And there were the "gimmies" that Jesus REFUSED to ignore, but happily hit out of the park.
Reid is a "gimmie" that Mitt's refusing to hit out of the park. What? He think's he's better than Jesus? Puhleeze, I will NOT vote for someone THAT delusional.
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Mitt's not a wimp: ask Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
He's just saving his ammo.
I'm not sure that's the right political play this election, but it's his call.
I do think that descending into the gutter with Harry Reid is wrong. It's wrong to accuse him of pederasty and pedophilia without evidence, just as it's wrong and evil for Reid to accuse Mitt of being a tax dodger. I'd like to think that the better part of our society would condemn Reid of his scandalous behavior, and not mimic it by accusing him of pederasty and pedophilia.
Then again, since Mr. Reid is getting a free pass, one can understand why honest citizens, frustrated with the lack of decency in Washington, would take matters into their own hands and accuse Mr. Reid of pederasty and pedophilia. The Outfit is willing to do anything to bring this election home for Obama, and so there is the temptation to accuse Reid of pederasty and pedophilia, even though there is (currently) no evidence of it.
Tusk, tusk.
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The congress should vote on censure or whatever it is called to against Harry for his innuendo and slander. Shine a bright light on the cockroaches and they scurry.
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Those who delivered Guernica, Warsaw, Rotterdam, London and Coventry, received Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden in return. You learn to play their game to win. Civility only returns after the devastation is so great, wiser minds remember not to start it in the first place. The only choices the other side offers you are surrender or fight.
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nobody's accusing him of Pederasty, Dr. Steve. We're just raising the question since so many say that he is but don't want to actually go on the record. It's up to him to prove he's not. That's teh Democrat rule, nobody in teh WH is telling him to knock it off, so we'll play by the same Chicago/Vegas rules. You've got to play to win, and they're setting the bar. I want no McCain "losing honorably". It's a political knifefight, and if they pull guns (so to speak), we will too. A guy like Harry is shameless, so you have to make him fear for his career for these tactics. I'd spend some money digging into his, his sons' past and financials. He, after all, refuses to release his returns. His son is acting as a lawyer for a Chinese firm Harry supported....
No more Mr. Nice Guy. They called the rules
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Sorry, Steve, I also have to register my respectful disagreement. Your hope that "the better part of our society" would stay on a higher-minded, decent path this campaign season risks a repeat of 2008. The Obamunists are counting on their media stooges to keep Team Mittens bottled up within the Alinsky rule of "make the enemy follow their own rules", in this case trying to force Romney into a permanent Marquess of Queensberry campaign mode.
OTOH, this interesting 1-page summary of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals contains the elements that our side can use to wage a guerrilla campaign against the Obama/DNC/MSM machine. Choice cuts:
#5: Ridicule is man's most important weapon. How can you NOT ridicule a corruptocrat senator who looks like a cross between ET and the Cryptkeeper?
#6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. The great Iowahawk has done brilliant pioneering work with this one. Remember when the scumbag ABC reporter Brian Ross falsely accused a Tea Party member of being the Aurora, CO movie-theater shooter? Iowahawk collected a series of links to random news stories about guys named "Brian Ross" being arrested for crimes ranging from check fraud to rape and murder, then posted them on Twitter as "Brian Ross's One-Man Crime Wave." The "Harry the Pederast" schtick is simply in keeping with this idea, and I don't have a damn bit of sympathy for the target.
#8: Keep the pressure on. Never let up. Be Breitbart. Keep trying new stuff; keep the bastards off-balance and unable to mount a coherent counterattack.
Now this isn't the first time I've inserted this vid, and for the same reason...
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Fight clean in the 2012 election---if you don't mind your grandchildren being serfs.
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I'd better apply the 'sarc' tag next time. I only mentioned pederasty and pedophilia four times to see if I could help raise Mr. Reid's Google profile...
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*squints*.... hmmmm. I guess he's OK, boys
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He's just saving his ammo.
I sincerely hope you're right about that. I got really impatient this morning watching Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer on CBS. The donks kept harping on Mitt's tax returns and neither Schieffer nor any of the Repubs would make any mention whatsoever about Barry's college records. They must have been congratulating themselves for their discipline and the way they stayed on script about the economy. But that's not gonna work because the donks kept coming back with lies and half truths about the economy. This nonsense needs to stop. Somebody needs to call bullshit. Mitt needs to take off the gloves and play smash mouth.
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I only mentioned pederasty and pedophilia four times to see if I could help raise Mr. Reid's Google profile...
I get that. I actually got a chuckle out of it. But I was not amused by Schieffer.
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I'd better apply the 'sarc' tag next time. I only mentioned pederasty and pedophilia four times to see if I could help raise Mr. Reid's Google profile...
OK Steve, you got us all pretty good with that one. In that spirit...did everyone notice how the original article compared Dingy Harry to "Pat Geary," the corrupt Nevada Senator from Godfather II? Now while I can't say for sure that Harry Reid has ever been found lying semiconscious next to a dead hooker, I think inquiring minds MIGHT want to know about the association of Harry Reid with a possible allegedly dead hooker.
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THIS is how you do it:
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This is indeed how you do it - through a proxy.
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one who calls it harsh and sharp and won't back down. Now Harry "land deals and no tax returns" Reid, alleged pederast, gets to respond.
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Now Harry "land deals and no tax returns" Reid, alleged pederast, gets to respond.
Now Harry "land deals and no tax returns" Reid, alleged pederast who may or may have not been found lying semiconscious in a whorehouse bed next to an eviscerated practitioner of The World's Oldest Profession; nobody knows for sure; you know how it is with that whole "anonymous sourcing" thing, gets to respond.
FIFY :-)
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IMO POTUS Bammer should do it - iff the establishment or the US Congress is NOT going to be serious about stengthening the borders + closing serious immigration loopholes, WHY KEEP USELESS PCORRECT-DENIABLE GIVING LIP SERVICE FOR MANY YEARS AND DECADES TO A PROB THE GOVT IS NOT SERIOUS ABOUT SOLVING, save for continually expanding the Welfare-Nanny State $$$ which the Fed can no longer afford unless Pols break their routine election-year promises to keep taxes low.
SEND 'EM HOME, OR MAKE THEM "LEGAL" ASAP RESONABLY - since the Govt clearly doesn't wanna send 'em home, the alternative is to make them LEGAL!
LEGAL LIMBO = MORE GOVT WASTE UPON WASTE UPON WASTE UPON ... OF MAINSTREAM TAX $$$!
Unless the Fed = USA wants to be like Greece or Japan and go for that S&P, Fitch dowgrade vee the magical, overly excessive Debt-to-GDP Ratio of few or several 00% than at present???
#3
There is still a difference between being a legal resident and being able to vote. The DHS action will make it possible for illegal immigrants to get work permits. It doesn't say that they will become citizens and able to vote (legally, anyway) by election day.
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The party of Cordell Hull, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. and Jr. won't have a standard-bearer -- or at least not one it can stomach -- in Tennessee's next U.S. Senate race.
Less than 24 hours after a man espousing conservative and libertarian views surprised the state's political scene by winning the Democratic nomination, the Tennessee Democratic Party disavowed him, saying he's part of an anti-gay hate group.
The party said Friday that it would do nothing to help Mark Clayton, 35, who received nearly twice as many votes as his closest challenger in Thursday's seven-candidate primary, winning the right to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker in November.
"The only time that Clayton has voted in a Democratic primary was when he was voting for himself," the party said in a news release. "Many Democrats in Tennessee knew nothing about any of the candidates in the race, so they voted for the person at the top of the ticket. Unfortunately, none of the other Democratic candidates were able to run the race needed to gain statewide visibility or support.
"Mark Clayton is associated with a known hate group in Washington, D.C., and the Tennessee Democratic Party disavows his candidacy, will not do anything to promote or support him in any way, and urges Democrats to write-in a candidate of their choice in November."
Clayton defended his work for Public Advocate of the United States, the pro-life, pro-marriage group in question, and said he was disappointed with the Tennessee Democratic Party's "zero-sum politics."
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"Many Democrats in Tennessee knew nothing about any of the candidates in the race, so they voted for the person at the top of the ticket."
Sheah right. More like the voters spoke, and the masters didn't like what they had to say.
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The loyal Democrat has nowhere to turn now. I believe many Democrats will refuse to vote this year because the party has left them. The left has hijacked the party. The left are but a small part of the party. The Democrats offer earth and water but require you to be on your knees.
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We have open primaries here in TN. Plus the 0 is not very popular especially in the east. I think you what you have here is disgruntled Dems, most Inds and mischievous Reps creating a perfect storm of sorts.
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Obama is their paycheck. They love a party animal in DC. Deals made and rubbing elbows with who's who and A list people. Catering people will tell you when business will be good with who is elected.When you have government cutbacks this beltway area will hurt like the rest of the country. Yes, the black population has declined but they still enjoy all the minority perks, even when they weren't the minority.
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Finally, a note on Washington DC. Some readers might attribute Obamas rating there solely to his enduring popularity among black voters, but Washington is no longer a majority-black city. (The black population dipped below 50 percent last year.) Obama is popular with nearly everyone in the capital. Among those who work for the government and for government-related businesses the permanent bureaucracy centered in Washington DC, northern Virginia and southern Maryland approval of the president remains very high.
Spend! Spend! Spend! They love it!
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So, vote for the candidate who'll be hated in DC, but loved in the rest of the country.
In the modern world of telecommunications and fast travel, there's no reason for all that bureaucracy to be so close to the flag pole.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) sent the Democratic National Committee (DNC) a birthday cake on Friday, but the DNC sent it back.
The cake read "you didn't bake this" over a picture of President Obama. Text written in icing reads, "Happy birthday, Mr. President." The cake marks the occasion of the president's birthday, which is Saturday, with a play on the "you didn't build that" controversy.
"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen," Obama told a crowd last month. "The point is, when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together."
Republicans revolted over the line, calling it proof that Obama lacks belief in hard work and American entrepreneurs, and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has referred back to "you didn't build that" on the presidential campaign trail.
Yahoo News reported the cake as vanilla with vanilla frosting.
"Happy 50.99726th Mr. President," RNC spokesman Tim Miller wrote in an email. The decimal number tweaks the Democrats on an official blog post from White House Economic adviser Alan Krueger, who pointed out the July jobs report, released Friday, indicated the "unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent in July (or, more precisely, the rate rose from 8.217 percent in June to 8.254 percent in July).
"23 million people struggling for work isn't a rounding error," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus snapped back.
But the Democrats sent the cake back.
"This is typical of Mitt Romney's approach to the middle class," DNC spokeswoman Melanie Roussell told The Hill. "He wants to 'Let them eat cake!' while robbing them blind. We sent the cake back to the RNC, along with a copy of the Tax Center's report on Mitt Romney's tax plan."
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Yahoo News reported the cake as vanilla with vanilla frosting
"raaaaacissttt!!11!!"
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The Republican National Committee (RNC) sent the Democratic National Committee (DNC) a birthday cake on Friday, but the DNC sent it back.
