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“There Would Have Been No Obama Without Jesse Jackson.” Father Phleger Sets the Record Straight
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21:17Now Playing“There Would Have Been No Barack Obama Without Jesse Jackson.” Father Phleger Sets the Record Straight
Father Michael Pfleger explains why Jesse Jackson’s fight inside the Democratic Party made Barack Obama’s 2008 victory possible.
Father Michael Pfleger argues that modern American political history cannot be understood without Jesse Jackson. He explains that Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns forced structural changes inside the Democratic Party, including delegate rules that later made Barack Obama’s path viable in 2008. Without those reforms, Pfleger says, the math would have favored Hillary Clinton and Obama would have had no pathway. This is not nostalgia — it is structural history.
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