I was trying to interpret your remarks to assume that you hadn't, in fact, contradicted yourself in a single post.

But even if we interpret your remarks that way you're logic still falls apart.

If, as you say, Barack is "viable" because he enjoys frontrunner, or near-frontrunner, status, then Jackson was also viable. As noted earlier, there was a period of time during that election when Jackson was, in fact, the frontrunner. Which brings me back to my earlier point that Jackson was, in fact, a viable black candidate and that you're earlier statement to the contrary was a "Rayfact." (TM)