Dan Frisa
Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Well, we won't be fooled again.

This week Jesse Jackson's various organizations released an internal report purporting to have reviewed all of the finances involved with the overlapping groups, and declared that everything is in order.

In 1992 the Clinton campaign released an internal report purporting to have reviewed all of the finances involved with Whitewater, and declared that everything was in order.

What a striking similarity!

The world now knows that the self-serving report "exonerating" the Clintons was a lie intended to keep the dogs off the trail and to buy enough time to get through the presidential primaries in 1992.

With electoral success – or even failure in the case of New Hampshire, where the Comeback Kid lost – Clinton deftly deflected further inquiries by claiming that voters knew of the allegations but elected him anyway.

This defense is much like the "if his wife forgives him, who are we to pass judgment" defense used whenever a bimbo erupted on the scene.

These are diversionary tactics. These, and others, were used by the Clinton crowd rather deftly over the years, to deceive, deflect and dissemble.

Jesse Jackson looks like he's now trying to do the same thing.

The report that he, in essense, released about himself gives him a clean bill of health on his finances and entanglements. So everyone should go away, because this is a right-wing attack anyway, he says.

He alao said that he and his groups should be "judged by the good works they try to do" and that they performed "public service, not perfect service."

So just as with voting in Florida, it's the intent that counts, not the reality, Jesse?

Is that to say that just because you really didn't mean to impregnate one of your employees, you shouldn't be taken to task?

Or just because you didn't mean to soak your 'non-profit' organizations for your personal profit, you shouldn't be held accountable?

How about your blackmailing of corporations and the Democrats? If you had "good intentions," does that absolve you of any responsiblity?

This report by Jackson about Jackson clearing Jackson is a crock.

It only raises more questions.

And they must be answered.

Because we won't be fooled again.

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Read Dan's previous column, Clinton: First Black President. What?

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Dan Frisa represented New York in the United States Congress and served four terms in the New York State Assembly.

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