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No giving up

• Justin Webb
• 31 Mar 08, 08:07 PM GMT

Senior politicians want to be loved but, if they cannot be loved, they usually make do with being respected, or feared, or held in some kind of esteem, high or low. What they cannot abide, and (perhaps) cannot survive, is . Perhaps in Pennsylvania "Deer Hunter" country, their iMacs are not yet configured for YouTube - but this is the gaffe that keeps on damaging the Clinton campaign.

It puts revelations like in the shade.

But they won't give up - oh no. This line - chilling to many Democrats - from an LA Times profile of Harold Ickes (who once worked for Jesse Jackson), sums up what ruthlessness really means and how the Denver Convention might look:

"Unhappy about the way Jackson was being treated at the '88 convention, Ickes hatched plans that included a threat to hand out 1,700 plastic whistles to Jackson supporters so they could disrupt the proceedings. Some of his ideas unnerved even Jackson; Ickes remembers him saying, "Ickes, you want to get me run out of white man's America."

The whole piece is .

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