Your comment seems to be a meme itself. You could randomly pull some guy off a public bus that may in fact turn out to be an excellent president. The question is, is that a rational thing to do?

Jackson is an idiot. He should know that Obama has no cojones.

Since this seems to be a recurrent rightwing meme, I thought I'd recount something I read in Clay Blair's book, Silent Victory, a history of US submarine warfare in WWII. Seems the Navy, prior to war, had developed a profile of the ideal sub commander. Turns out that the man who most closely satisfied the profile froze on the scope in his first action. He was relieved by the XO and spent the rest of the cruise in his cabin. Blair contrasted this with the story of another sub commander. This man was USNR and before the war had been a stockbroker on Wall Street. This guy scared the shit out his crew because he never thought he was in close enough to take the shot and would take his boat in to the point where the crew was stuffing hankies in their mouths to keep from screaming.

Moral: You never can tell.

I do wonder, however, what so peeved Jackson. In what way was Obama “talking down to blacks”? Simply because he channeled Bill Cosby in a speech and forgot to add the usual caveats about how everything is ultimately society’s fault?

Well, it's the lack of caveats, as Sully intimated. I mean Jesse's been dining out for years on the "society's fault" thing, right?

Sully: "Jackson still bristles with the politics of resentment; Obama, like many others, has moved on."