Jesse Jackson Takes Issue with Gop's Colin Powell

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Jesse Jackson took on Colin Powell Tuesday, faulting the Republican convention's opening-night speaker for "strained logic."

Jackson told home-state Illinois delegates to the Democratic National Convention that Powell, a retired Army general "of great stature," had turned his back on his beginnings by embracing the GOP.

He said Powell's ascent to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was the product of labor rights, military desegregation, public accommodations and right-to-vote laws passed under Democratic leadership.

Later, Jackson told reporters, "It is a contradiction to be the valedictorian of the affirmative action class and then support those who …