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"A hustler from Chicago," said George Bush of Jesse Jackson during the campaign. A man not "morally fit to lead the nation," suggested Jackson of Bush.
Bush also met with Michael Dukakis last week, but the tone was different. Paying a loser's traditional courtesy call, Dukakis was clearly the past. Jackson offered himself as the future, and by treating him almost as an equal, Bush lent cynical credence to the claim. "This is beyond our...
But not all sides. As Jackson becomes a Harold Stassen with clout, a good many other Democrats are becoming apoplectic. A second loss, they had hoped, would finish him. But, as Jackson says, "no way I'm going away." So for many Democrats, both black and white, the Jackson factor...
Roughly put, there are two schools of thought. One, articulated by Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, dreams unrealistically of other blacks rising to take Jackson's place. Nunn has no desire to ignore the Democrats' black base. He merely wants to render it less threatening to the white conservatives who have...
Ironically, the campaign began with rival moral visions, offered by two candidates who created the greatest surprise of the election year. These candidates tapped a yearning for moral rebirth that Reagan was supposed to have brought to Americans already. Yet Reagan's rhetoric, unable to re-create the America he...