Word: jessee
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And so it is in the spring of 1988 with the campaign of Jesse Jackson. Twenty years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a disciple of the civil rights martyr has seized the crown of Democratic front runner. Jackson was not merely an acolyte; he was...
In the days immediately following Michigan, the Jackson campaign was infused with a front runner's frenzy. Victory unleashed the kind of primordial Democratic passions that many believed had died with Bobby Kennedy in 1968. Crowds mushroomed to unmanageable and chaotic size. Supporters all but crushed Jackson at every stop...
MILWAUKEE--Mass. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis scored a convincing victory in the Wisconsin primary last night, cutting the Rev. Jesse Jackson's momentum in the Democratic presidential race and reaching for control in the struggle for the nomination.
THE new fashionable point for political columnists to make is that Jesse Jackson hasn't been taken seriously--which in translation means that Jesse Jackson hasn't been run out of the campaign.
So in the end, the recent argument that Jackson has been given a free ride and that such indifference to him is a subtle form of racism, may itself be racist. Ignoring the fact that Jackson's record has been scrutinized, the argument assumes that Jackson is only doing well...