Barack Obama: Making History (Full Documentary) [View all]

Published on Sep 9, 2012

MSNBC's Chris Matthews documentary.

I'd never seen this video. It was posted on youtube a little before the 2012 election, but I don't know when it was made. One moment in the video defining 2008 for me was the image of Jesse Jackson weeping. I wept for almost three days straight.



Barack Obama's win: News to make Jesse Jackson weep

It was just a fleeting image, one we saw on the Fox News Channel, from the mass gathering in Chicago awaiting the victory speech from President-elect Barack Obama.

But it was a telling one -- the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a face in the crowd (though a highly recognizable one), with tears streaming down his face in the minutes after the pronouncements from the networks that Obama had won the White House.

Tears of joy? Tears of wonderment? Probably a combination of both...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/11/for-many-americ.html

Obama supporters weep with joy in Chicago

...Beth Keegan, a 45-year-old white teacher from the wealthy suburb of Winnetka, jumped in the air and hugged her friend when Obama's victory was announced.

"I'm ecstatic!" she yelled. "It will be the beginning of racial healing in the country."

Also in the park crowd, the Rev. Jesse Jackson had tears streaming down his face as he heard the news. Jackson had to apologize earlier in the campaign for crude remarks he made about Obama that were caught by an open microphone.

His son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., called the election "a peaceful revolution..."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-11-04-673291084_x.htm


FYI: This is a post in the BOG, or Barack Obama Group, which is A SAFE HAVEN for supporters of our President and his policies.