A Corbyn victory would be both exciting and dangerous for Labour but there would be ructions too whether one of the other candidates were to triumphSeeing that indefatigable firebrand Jesse Jackson in British headlines the other day (Steven W Thrasher interviewed him here) reminded me of a thought I’d forgotten that I had about his tender for White House in 1988. It may have a bearing on Jeremy Corbyn’s looming leadership of the Labour party.
The Republican candidate to succeed Ronald Reagan in 1988 was his vice president,George Bush senior, a scion of the east coast patrician elite who had been preparing for the job in a succession of grand posts all his life, and as his campaign slogan reminded voters. Someone even dug out grainy footage of him being rescued after his bomber was shot down over the Pacific in 1944. He was 20. Not noxious.
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Source: theguardian.com