CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson ... keeping hope alive, as he has been doing for all of his long and singular life. The room was ...

So keep hope alive. We do that around the house ... but for several of them, they did not want Jesse Jackson to be that person. They simply did not want him to be that candidate.

Over the years, our country’s tragedies and triumphs have been written in Jesse Jackson’s determined brow, silent tears and his greying head bowed in prayer.