In a statement, the younger Jackson said he was "deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama." "Reverend Jackson is my dad, and I'll always love him. . . . I thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric ... He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself." The ad is part of a new union political effort to reach the 2.1 million military veterans or active-duty personnel who are members of the AFL-CIO.
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