baleen

Say what you want about Jessie Hymietown Jackson, but the guy was on the balcony when they killed Martin Luther King, dude. On the fuckin balcony.

Spike Jonez
Holding up the mirror for the primitive laser sight on the gun that shot him! Everyone knows he was in on it!

simon666
Baleen, such a way with words.

grimcity
My wife was relatively apolitical before it came down to Clinton v Obama, then she got some of the political bug... last night when she saw this, she did the same thing and I was stoked. I can't imagine seeing what I saw last night through Reverend Jackson's eyes, but I have a good idea.

Amazing work, democracy.

Cleaner82
Black guys of that generation, their brains have just exploded. Forty years ago they were fighting for the right to drink from the same goddamn water fountain. It must be like Bizarro World.

RomancingTrain
Me am so happy.

Camonk
Well, Oprah cries at tampon commercials, so that's not a big deal. But half the panel on MSNBC were crying, too. Chris Matthews even got choked up.

baleen

I was crying too.

zatojones
What I want to know is where was Stedman?

IrishWhiskey
Brit Hume was crying, but I think for a different reason.

Camonk
I wasn't, cause I mean, psht, just a historic election... first country in the West to elect a black president... just a huge step on making good on the promise of civil rights.

Whatever. See that shit every day. I didn't cry or NOTHIN'.

Jeff Fries
She was peeking over the shoulder of some fat white guy.

Meerkat
I cry at tampon commercials also.

Fucking inanimate objects going where I never do. Bastards. KILL THEM ALL!1!!1!!!

FeeFiFoFoTheFifeFifeBrown
Plus he'll never get to cut Obama's balls off now with the continued Secret Service protection

fetuschrist
damn you! that's exactly what i was thinking when i saw it!

Dib
I would like to think it was the parts of Obama's speech pledging to be everybody's president. Just maybe Jesse Jackson became a convert last night, moved by the historical achievement, and obviously was touched despite his prior conceptions toward Obama. With any luck, this guy is waking up today and saying "yes, we can"

Alektorophobic
Hey, I've got nothing but respect for the guy. After all he's lived through, to see the dream that he and millions of others fought and (some) died to achieve finally come to pass... I got misty-eyed too, just watching him cry last night. I wanted to give the guy a hug. You think he'd let me hug him?

Nithing
Or because he's essentially unemployed now.

garcet71283
He's only crying because now he's out of a job.

What is there left to complain about...he is the man now.

Hooper_X
He's clearly trying to keep his shit together.