Jesse Jackson once again displayed the unerring homing instinct of a fly for a meadow muffin by turning up in Brazil to boost the communist front runner Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva in Sunday's presidential election.
Comparing Brazil's presidential front-runner to Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, U.S. Rev. Jesse Jackson made it clear Sunday that if he were a Brazilian, he would vote for the candidate of the leftist Workers Party.It seems that "Lula" has credibility problems amongst Brazil's Protestants and brought in the Rev. No word on the illegitimate children voting bloc.
"I was with Martin Luther King...and with Nelson Mandela...and they were inspired by a special spirit," Jackson told a congregation of 400 gathered at the First Baptist Church in Santo Andre, an industrial suburb on the outskirts of Sao Paulo. "And the same special spirit...is inspiring Lula," he said of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Standing next to the former metalworker, Jackson said Lula has been "touched by God."
