It’s time for the president to quit cursing, “level with the American people,” turn the crisis in the Gulf into a job-creation tool and “stop the blame game,” Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said Tuesday.
Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), a longtime family friend and political adviser, told POLITICO that President Barack Obama should address the nation on the oil gusher that continues to contaminate the Gulf of Mexico and threatens to devastate coastal economies.
He said the crisis presented an opportunity to rally the nation behind job-creation on the Gulf Coast — a call to service on the coast that could echo past efforts by progressive presidents to turn economic calamity into employment.
“No more cursing,” Jackson said, referring to Obama’s remark to NBC’s Matt Lauer that he’s trying to find out “whose ass to kick” over the matter and an earlier demand for his administration to “plug the damn hole.”





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