Word: opportunists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...method of analysis is unable to address the fact that many liberal white voters, for some dark and secret reason, are indeed unable to support the presidential candidate who is most in tune with their own philosophy. We would simply ask Hirschorn this: Can Reverend Jackson be called an opportunist and a hypocrite for merely diagnosing yet another dynamic in white Americans that refines and widens the very schism Hirschorn supposedly deplores...
...only be assumed then that, like the opportunist he has admitted to being, he will take advantage of his position in the forefront. Although the press has already declared Mondale the candidate for the Democratic nomination, Jackson cannot be ignored...
...changed his views on ERA and the death penalty, but is steadfast on abortion. In short, while Flynn says he has grown since his early days as a South Boston state representative, the rapidity of his political shift raises serious concerns that he is no more than an opportunist...
Jackson becomes bitter when other black leaders, those he feels are content to serve as "trustees of the ghetto," dismiss him as opportunistic. "Part of our problem now is that some of our leaders do not seize opportunities," he says. "I was trained by Martin to be an opportunist...
Nakasone is not only an opportunist but a stooge for former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, as shown by his appointment of seven members of the Tanaka faction to his Cabinet posts. I wish Tanaka would retire and write his memoirs, as your President Nixon...