In a Father's Day speech, Obama told black churchgoers that a father's responsibility "doesn't just end at conception."
"What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child - any fool can have a child," Obama said. "It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."
Maybe this struck a little too close to home for the Rev. Jackson, who just a few years ago finally owned up to fathering a child outside of his marriage even as he was busy counseling President Bill Clinton on his dalliances with a White House intern.
Perhaps the real reason for Jackson's hatred is that Obama has shown that unifying and uplifting campaigns succeed in American politics where the divisive failed campaigns waged by Jackson become history's footnotes.
And this is where Obama comes out ahead once all the dust settles.
By publicly accepting Jackson's apology, Obama floated above the whole sordid mess.
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