Straight from the Election Night tableau of Barack Hussein Obama winning the November 4, 2008 American presidency, came the tears of Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Jackson’s tears were captured for posterity by Chicago Tribune photographers out among the throngs at Grant Park, and untold millions later saw Jackson’s crying jag on the Worldwide Internet.
Unfortunately, only his tears went viral. His nudge-nudge, wink-wink laughter about his son’s future in the Senate to reporters on the very same night, did not.
“Pausing between a series of television interviews on the main risers at Grant Park, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said “there’s a joy, there’s an ecstasy”, in Chicago tonight as Sen. Barack Obama draws closer to the presidency.” (washingtonpost.com, Nov. 4, 2008).