Despite some words of reason, he remains the wildest card
What does Jesse Jackson want? The question gnaws at the Democrats as they try to fathom the preacher-politician's shifting moods, sometimes contradictory rhetoric and flamboyant gestureslike his trip this week to Cuba and Central America. Interpreting Jackson has become a kind of political pastime, as compelling and mysterious as predicting the next move by the Politburo.
What Jackson most clearly says he wants he cannot have. If the Democratic Party gave him the additional 400-odd delegates he demands to match his share of the...