Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark joined
Rev. Jesse Jackson at the annual Rainbow/PUSH Wall Street Project
2004 Conference job fair in New York today. Clark talked about
the need for "economic development in minority areas and
how to help urban Americans and rural Americans who are denied
access to capital." Clark worked as an investment
banker in Little Rock involved with the startup of companies
after his retirement from the military.
Rev. Jackson stressed the need for party unity in the Democratic
Party. Jackson said some of the other Democratic candidates have
'mad Dean disease" and warned that the party would
self-destruct if the campaign remained "too hostile and too
bloody"
"They can't see past that fight.
... In the end, that could be damaging," Jackson said in an
apparent reference to mad cow disease, which eats holes in the
brains of cattle and is incurable. In this whole battle, we must
have one eye on competition and one on cooperation," Jackson
said. "Democrats must not self-destruct in a bloodbath by
attacking each other in ways that amount to providing sound bites
for George Bush."
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