What a bitter, robotic and swarthy little man. His hate-filled tirade at that embarrassing '88 Dem convention in Atlanta proved he was not presidential material. Normally, the party out-of-power wins the White House after 8 years. But in '88, Mike Dukakis managed to lead Dems to a 3rd-straight, humiliating, landslide loss after having a lead as large as 17 points in late August. He offered nothing but hate & vitriol. America rewarded him with only 10 states & total repudiation of his nonsense.
@nikoz78 No. I have olive skin your saintlyness! Half Asian/half Irish. Swarthy, as I used it (and used hilariously in an SNL skit with John Lovitz portraying Dukakis) is used more to describe someone that is an urban schlemp. But your response is common of "Obama-era" whiners, themselves the most hateful bunch in the country (look at OWS trash) & always chomping at the bit to brand anyone who hurts their feelings or has differing views as a racist. It doesn't work anymore. Sorry.
@redletter2008 God, you're dumb. First off, your comment was clearly racist. "Olive skin" usually only applies to Italians and Greeks (Mediterraneans). Asians would be "yellow," Latino/Arabic would be "brown." Anyway, what you said was bigoted, no matter how you try to spin it. And what are you talking about Obama for, you fucking idiot? Never mentioned him once. In actual fact, I'm a Independent-Libertarian, and support Ron Paul. Now hurry, don't want to miss the bus for school.
@nikoz78 I hope you enjoyed your little tirade here, because I intend to see that it is the last you make on youtube for some time. You violated a number of terms of agreement items in your curse-filled explosion of stupidity and hate, not to mention your outright racist references - no matter how you spin it. Comprende?
@redletter2008 Report this: you're a ignorant little piss-ant, a know-it-all that doesn't KNOW anything, an inexperienced little bitch with a sense-of-entitlement, a keyboard warrior who acts tough while hiding behind a pc, a racist white BOY who is narcissistic, and you can go FUCK YOURSELF. Olive skin is beautiful, just ask your sister. Report that you punk ass little bitch.
Wow, look at the radicals & the amount of Jews involved in the Dukakis campaign. People like: Elena Kagan, Madeleine Albright, Larry Summers, James Steinberg, Gene Sperling, Josh Steiner, Todd Stern, Vicky Rideout, Leslie Dach, Vanessa Kirsch, & Michael Barr... I think they are almost all Jews!
Had Bush not smeared him with the Horton ads and lies about his wife and whisper campaigns....Dukakis would have won that race and saved the country from the double Bush disasters...primary W Bush ever succeeding his father.
@OdinsCloud 'Read my Lips' the real joke was his opponent. Once elected he enjoyed sticking multiple feet in his mouth and reguarly eating his words...then if you want rolling on the floor humor, look at the "joke" creature he created and called a son...dumb ape of a man...Yeah so Dukakis got in a tank....both Bush's ran the country under the tank mulitple times. Yeah we would have been much better off with the Duke.
@brandonWSH Dukakis was a horrible candidate in terms of presentation though. He held a strong record but was like Gore as a public speaker; with that broken and arrogant air to him. If you listen to this speech he pauses before completing some of his best lines, much like Gore did in 2000. It comes off as broken and half-hearted.
@TheGeekyNinjaStudios As opposed to what? The smirky chimp W or his stuffy daddy GHW ..they sure as hell weren't charsimatic speakers. This was a great speech; and must have been effective since he lead Bush by 20 points after the convention. It was the disgusting Bush smear campaign that brought him down; and the idiot American voter who falls for such garbage.
@marcostar57 Have you seen the debate 2000 video? W was charismatic as hell. Dukakis had no enthusiasm in 1988 and it stood out in the debates. Also, if you cannot fight a smear campaign then you are a weak nominee. Obama won in 2008 with full media backing (smearing mccain left and right) and like Dukakis McCain proved noneffective in responding. Politics are about style, not substance.
Michael Who? Jesse Jackson was a more dynamic and brilliant nominee and should've won, but his anti-Semitic comments turned off many Jewish voters and many white Democrats still would not vote for a black man (even though he was infinitely better). Jesse Jackson is still a man of importance today, while the loser Dookie is forgotten.
@hatmap Jewish voters, you mean the people of hymietown..? less than 2% of the population why would they stop his chances of winning election? Do you think they are somehow overrepresented beyond their physical numbers? Why would a white guy want a nigger in the white house?
Mike Dukakis had a 17 point lead over George Bush going into September 88 & then one bogus Willy Horton commercial came out that Dukakis couldn't get past & that was all she wrote
I can't stand the Bush's but I lived in Massachusetts with this moron as my Governor and he was the WORST. I was so glad to see him lose, am more happier that he is out of poltics. But I sure miss Bill clinton. Dukakis had no buisness getting the presidential nomination
Lee Atwater paid for how he divided this country with lies and fear. He died a slow excruciating death, that gave him time to examine the misguided life he lived. Scriptures say "vengeance is mine I shall repay..." and vengeance is what all the world got to see.
The beginning of Lee Atwater political campaigns...who cares about the issues or beliefs? Let's just get our guy elected and kill the other guy. You might not agree with what he said or believe, but the Duke was/is a great man who deserved better.
if the democratic party is for the low income, poor and middle class.....then dont they need to make sure you remain poor so you will keep voting for them?
marcostar57..........I could not have said it better myself , you took the words right out of my mouth. We would have already had univ hc-single payer system in this country by now had we not wasted 4 or 8 yrs under republican control of office. imagine we had had Dukakis, Mondale, Clinton and now Obama and Carter before. Middle Class working families wouldm really be in a better place.
Ahh 1988, the year Daddy Hitler ran the greatest smear campaign in presidential history and sadly enough the sheep fell for it hook line and sinker. Mr. dukakis was a breath of fresh air after the tyranny and corruption of fascist ronnie and company..
Boy aren't you RIGHT! I was astonished at the media & the voters for falling for all the sick BS that year. What a better country & world we would be today if Dukakis had been elected,
It's too bad that he lost in 1988. At the age of 19, he was the first person I ever voted for. He was a sensible progressive, and his only problem was that he took the high road during the campaign. It was the 1988 campaign that put me on anger management issues against the right-wing. And of course, 1988 is all the proof in the world that "the mainstream media isn't/wasn't as liberal as right-wing people purport them to be."
I agree and his son won in 2000 by smearing McCain in the primaries about fathering a black baby, but he actually adopted a girl from Bangledesh. This was done in South Carolina.
If Ducakis won he would be a great president because he would abolished the deathpenalty and ballance busgets. He should pick Bill Clinton for his VP insted of Benson.
It's even more despicable how the American plebs reacted to Dukakis competely principled and reasonable reply to Bernard Shaw in that debate. It showed that the American plbels always prefers emotions over reason.
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Dukakis was a joke. Mondale was a joke. Nobody could take the democratic nominees seriously with Jimmy Carter fresh in our minds. I think in 2009 we need to be reminded that high taxes, high inflation, and wasteful spending is why our economy was bad in the 70's and its only going to make this recession worse. It was government who got us here in the first place with forcing risky loans on banks, now government can justify every wasteful spending bill bcuz we'll collapse without it.
You mean that wasteful spending hasn't been a problem with modern Republican presidents? Lord, have you seen the figures of debt and deficit during the administrations of Reagan and Bush? That's scary. Clinton was several times the president Reagan was. Smaller government, surpluses, education, we were in our prime in the nineties. That's what we need, more flexibility and less partisanship.
Dukakis would have been a great president with superior character. Pick some new heroes.
I didn't say Reagan and Bush were my heroes. Wasteful spending was a problem for Republicans but far worse for democrats. BTW Clinton had a Republican congress. 90's were great
I wouldn't say it's worse yet. I'll have to see the total numbers first. With luck, if he is an irresponsible spender, Obama will serve one term and then Michael Bloomberg will run.
Bloomberg's got no party affiliation after so many changes. He seems like a Republican now since he won't raise nyc taxes to avoid wealthier job owners to leave the city and risk jobs. Either way Obama will serve just one term because he can't control the crazy Dem controlled supermajority congress, and his own agenda that will destroy us. Its amazing how people elected a new deal type liberal like obama who was just like Mondale and Dukakis. He should have been landslided easily!
I don't worry about grammar when I am typing fast and a when a thought comes to my mind. I don't worry about it when I write informally. You worry about making through college. College boy
Funny because the "Massachusetts Miracle" went bust after Dukasis' tax and spend policies hit the fan during the recession of the late 80's early 90's.
He only got 111 electoral votes compared to H.W. Bush's 426. He is the last Democratic nominee to lose in a landslide. Since 1992, the Democratic nominee has either won by a landslide or lost by just one state that would have made the difference, and the republicans have either lost by a landslide or won by a razer thin margin. Not looking good for the GOP. And the last time the Republican's won without the Bush Family was in 1972.
The last two democratic victories were decisive, not lanslides. 1988 was decisive aswell, just much larger electoral margins. Obama didn't win in a lanslide. All theirs were were electoral college lanslides. a true lanslide is with a big popular vote margin and electoral college. meaning something like Johnson/Goldwater or Reagen/Carter or Reagen/Mondale
That is a good point. Bush won over Dukakis because of Reagan's popularity, negative campaign ads, and the unbreakable coalition (at the time) of white working class Reagan democrats in the rust belt states and white Southerners. The base is not as strong as it used to becase Obama broke through that like Clinton did in 92 and 96 but with help of a 3rd party.
Dukakis never had a chance . . . after the eight years of progress under Reagan, did anyone for a SECOND think that we would regress back to liberalism???
When this speech was given, it was actually very well recieved, and deservedly so. Many called it the highlight of his career at that point. Of course, revisionist history now makes Dukakis "uncool". Whatever.
lightness1882, that's not true. He won the popular vote in ten states: MA, NY, RI, WV, IA, WI, MN, OR, WA, and HI. You're thinking of Walter Mondale, the 1984 Democratic nominee. He only won Minnesota his home state.
One of the worst campaigns/candidates in history. America was not going to elect a non-death penalty, uber liberal. I also never understood why people thought the Willie Horton ads were so offensive; they were completely accurate and addressed a legitimate issue.
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really? I knew he was the nominee in '88 but this was the first exstensive footage I have seen him in. what a sad excuse for a candidate. Zzzzzzzzzzzz. From Dukakis to Obama...Go Figure.
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What the fuck were the Dems thinking picking this guy? The white America of 1988 was never going to vote for this wog. 20 years later, the terminally insane Dem idiots appear to have learned nothing. They actually now risk losing an unlosable election by picking a nigger. God I hope Obama wins (who needs more war for Israel?), but I have a lot of trouble believing white America is going to go for a nigger -- unless, like me, they think the GOP needs to be punished for John MoreWar McAmnesty.
I wouldn't want the guy to be killed, either, if it happened to my wife. Revenge solves nothing, and it makes me sick to think of myself as someone who would take pleasure or satisfaction in seeing someone else killed. The murderer obviously felt pleasure and satisfaction in some part when he committed the crime, and I'd like to think I'm better than that and wouldn't need someone to die to make me feel better about the situation.
I think you're the one being cocky. Obama's speech last night was utterly incredible. I'm actually watching Dukakis's speech from 88 for a laugh because it was so lame compared to what Obama did yesterday. Obama's arguably the first candidate since 1960 who doesn't make Democrats think "Oh crap, what have we done".
Sean Hannity made Dukakis look like a dumbass last night after the Bill Clinton speech at the DNC.. He asked him what qualifies Obama to be president and all Dukakis could say was healthcare LOL Michael Dukakis worst presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter
Also it's hilarious to see Republicans flocking to the last time they actually had a better candidate than the other side.
Kinda makes you forget how every GOP candidate from 1992 on was an absolute disaster and their only presidential win since then resulted in a multi-trillion dollar deficit (fiscal conservative, eh?) and one of the worst presidencies in history by anyone's estimation.
But by all means, keep socking it to a dude who ran in 1988. I'm sure you're hurting his feelings real bad!
And Obama won't be any better, hes already proposing 13 TRILLION in new spending, no way of solving the deficit and taxing everyone to death, reminds me of the early Clinton administration. Remember that?
Don't count on it. Clinton promised a tax cut as well. Then his first budget gave us the biggest tax increase in history. Democrats never cut taxes. If Obama wins, we all will pay.
"A more robust energy policy"
What is the policy exactly? It's another Obama pledge with no specifics.
Sorry if I seem brash, but both candidates are getting away with talking in platitudes & non specifics. I want to know EXACTLY waht the intend to pursue if elected.
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Obama won't "change" anything. He's only slightly less beholden to the same interests as McCain.
When does Obama talk about restoring the Bill of Rights? When does Obama promote a "Solar Energy First" platform? When does Obama talk about ending the war in Iraq within 6 months?
Obama is a hack. McCain will steal the election from him and just like Gore or Kerry, Obama will sit back and let it happen.
Believe it or not, Dukakis was over 15 points ahead in the polls during the Summer of '88. Things of course went down hill after that and then totally fell apart. I was 22 and voluntered on his campaign back in the day.
I still wonder how Dukakis N' his campaign made It through the Primaries.....I jus got into the political process but I haV noticed that Democrats are synonymous for puttin' out Lame candidates like Mondale, McGovern & Dukakis. I hope Obama does not end in the Democrats HaLL of Shame(Echo*5)....
Give him a chance!? They tore him apart limb from limb, the republican party seeks to destroy all opposition by any means necessary, and that is why they must be defeated.
Wrong. Studies have shown that progressives (call them Democrats, liberals, whatever) are much less rigid in their world views than conservatives and more open to accommodating differing views. This can be either praise or criticism depending on your own personal philosophy.
The fact that the Democrats don't use the Republican playbook of "win at any cost" proves it further. The Democrats have run on "Can't we all just get along?" and lost, numerous times.
"Studies have shown that progressives (call them Democrats, liberals, whatever) are much less rigid in their world views than conservatives and more open to accommodating differing views." What studies? "The fact that the Democrats don't use the Republican playbook of "win at any cost" proves it further." Proves what? You're right. Democrats have their own play book to win at any cost. They are just as bad as Republicans.
....uhhh not to mention Dukakis was short, dull, uninspiring, boring, negative, and a terrible public speaker. Obama is the opposite in every regard. And just watch.. he will win over 300 electoral votes. Count on it.
US lost a great opportunity to have a Greek man for president. what can I say that's a pity! and the worst thing is that he was beaten by Bush!!! oh my God!
Are u kidding? you really think McCain can beat Obama? Check out any electoral map you can find right now. Obama is ahead in more than enough states and will likely gian. Don't be so downcast... I'm telling you he will WIN.
Actually currently almost all the electoral maps have Obama with well more than 300 electoral votes. Some say 317 some 344, depends on which states he's ahead in each week. Either way McCain has a lot less than 270 and a much harder time getting there.
Won't happen, though. Once folks find out that all he really wants to do is explode the national debt and have $7 a gallon gasoline when he pulls out of Iraq overnight....it'll be over.
Oh - and despite his promises, he's not going to withdraw from Iraq, either - not the quick one he's claiming.
hey guys im not joking on this Kitty Dukakis is my great aunt. Micheal Dukakis is my great uncle. I visit him every here and there.
smbproduction 4 months ago
What a bitter, robotic and swarthy little man. His hate-filled tirade at that embarrassing '88 Dem convention in Atlanta proved he was not presidential material. Normally, the party out-of-power wins the White House after 8 years. But in '88, Mike Dukakis managed to lead Dems to a 3rd-straight, humiliating, landslide loss after having a lead as large as 17 points in late August. He offered nothing but hate & vitriol. America rewarded him with only 10 states & total repudiation of his nonsense.
redletter2008 5 months ago
@redletter2008 "swarthy little man" You have a problem with olive skin? Racist idiot.
nikoz78 4 days ago 2
@nikoz78 No. I have olive skin your saintlyness! Half Asian/half Irish. Swarthy, as I used it (and used hilariously in an SNL skit with John Lovitz portraying Dukakis) is used more to describe someone that is an urban schlemp. But your response is common of "Obama-era" whiners, themselves the most hateful bunch in the country (look at OWS trash) & always chomping at the bit to brand anyone who hurts their feelings or has differing views as a racist. It doesn't work anymore. Sorry.
redletter2008 3 days ago
@redletter2008 God, you're dumb. First off, your comment was clearly racist. "Olive skin" usually only applies to Italians and Greeks (Mediterraneans). Asians would be "yellow," Latino/Arabic would be "brown." Anyway, what you said was bigoted, no matter how you try to spin it. And what are you talking about Obama for, you fucking idiot? Never mentioned him once. In actual fact, I'm a Independent-Libertarian, and support Ron Paul. Now hurry, don't want to miss the bus for school.
nikoz78 3 days ago
@nikoz78 I hope you enjoyed your little tirade here, because I intend to see that it is the last you make on youtube for some time. You violated a number of terms of agreement items in your curse-filled explosion of stupidity and hate, not to mention your outright racist references - no matter how you spin it. Comprende?
redletter2008 3 days ago
@redletter2008 Report this: you're a ignorant little piss-ant, a know-it-all that doesn't KNOW anything, an inexperienced little bitch with a sense-of-entitlement, a keyboard warrior who acts tough while hiding behind a pc, a racist white BOY who is narcissistic, and you can go FUCK YOURSELF. Olive skin is beautiful, just ask your sister. Report that you punk ass little bitch.
nikoz78 3 days ago
This is a very edited version of the speech. The original speech was over twice as long.
Wild1995 5 months ago
My Dad loved him before he died in 1992!!! :)
terceldude 8 months ago
Wow, look at the radicals & the amount of Jews involved in the Dukakis campaign. People like: Elena Kagan, Madeleine Albright, Larry Summers, James Steinberg, Gene Sperling, Josh Steiner, Todd Stern, Vicky Rideout, Leslie Dach, Vanessa Kirsch, & Michael Barr... I think they are almost all Jews!
OdinsCloud 8 months ago
Had Bush not smeared him with the Horton ads and lies about his wife and whisper campaigns....Dukakis would have won that race and saved the country from the double Bush disasters...primary W Bush ever succeeding his father.
brandonWSH 8 months ago
@brandonWSH Not once the people of United States saw him in or on a tank. What a joke this guy was/is!
OdinsCloud 8 months ago
@OdinsCloud 'Read my Lips' the real joke was his opponent. Once elected he enjoyed sticking multiple feet in his mouth and reguarly eating his words...then if you want rolling on the floor humor, look at the "joke" creature he created and called a son...dumb ape of a man...Yeah so Dukakis got in a tank....both Bush's ran the country under the tank mulitple times. Yeah we would have been much better off with the Duke.
brandonWSH 8 months ago
@brandonWSH I was not a big fan of either Bush or Clinton. But Dukakis was way too lefty for my taste & he was not electable on a national scale.
OdinsCloud 8 months ago
@brandonWSH Dukakis was a horrible candidate in terms of presentation though. He held a strong record but was like Gore as a public speaker; with that broken and arrogant air to him. If you listen to this speech he pauses before completing some of his best lines, much like Gore did in 2000. It comes off as broken and half-hearted.
TheGeekyNinjaStudios 7 months ago
@TheGeekyNinjaStudios As opposed to what? The smirky chimp W or his stuffy daddy GHW ..they sure as hell weren't charsimatic speakers. This was a great speech; and must have been effective since he lead Bush by 20 points after the convention. It was the disgusting Bush smear campaign that brought him down; and the idiot American voter who falls for such garbage.
marcostar57 7 months ago
@marcostar57 Have you seen the debate 2000 video? W was charismatic as hell. Dukakis had no enthusiasm in 1988 and it stood out in the debates. Also, if you cannot fight a smear campaign then you are a weak nominee. Obama won in 2008 with full media backing (smearing mccain left and right) and like Dukakis McCain proved noneffective in responding. Politics are about style, not substance.
TheGeekyNinjaStudios 7 months ago
Dukakis reminds me of Captain Kirk from Star Trek....which makes me like him even more! XD
gracebasherguy92 8 months ago
he's obviously a stupid communist canadian with an un-american Jew name...deport his ass to mexico!!!!!!
democrats = the party of SATAN!!!!!
LDD86 9 months ago
@LDD86
HAHAHA
I love trolls. #LOL
Atheist2006 9 months ago
Good old Michael "I Look Like An Ass In This Tank" Dukakis
1982RRusso 1 year ago
@1982RRusso That Tank publicity stunt backfired on him so badly, even the Russians were laughing!
OdinsCloud 8 months ago
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EdwardP88 1 year ago
Michael Who? Jesse Jackson was a more dynamic and brilliant nominee and should've won, but his anti-Semitic comments turned off many Jewish voters and many white Democrats still would not vote for a black man (even though he was infinitely better). Jesse Jackson is still a man of importance today, while the loser Dookie is forgotten.
hatmap 1 year ago
@hatmap Jewish voters, you mean the people of hymietown..? less than 2% of the population why would they stop his chances of winning election? Do you think they are somehow overrepresented beyond their physical numbers? Why would a white guy want a nigger in the white house?
OdinsCloud 8 months ago
darn...i wanted to see the traditional balloon drop at the end
KevolutionNow 1 year ago
Anyone That Would Support Dukakis Must Me A Masshole
yungdcwa81 1 year ago
FUCK YOU STINKY FUCKIN REPUBLICANS!!!!
o94ght 1 year ago
"President Dukakis" Thank God that didn't happen.
Chad3150 1 year ago
@Chad3150 What an asshole you are! We needed a man with sincerity & decency in office back then!
DAVEDSIG 1 year ago
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Chad3150 1 year ago
Mike Duakakis is a good man and would've made a good President but he was a bad Politician
FRSFreeState 1 year ago
Mike Dukakis had a 17 point lead over George Bush going into September 88 & then one bogus Willy Horton commercial came out that Dukakis couldn't get past & that was all she wrote
FrsBigeasy 1 year ago
Dukakis lost because he was a pathetic loser like mondale, carter, and mcgovern.
BillyBlues34 1 year ago
He would of turned the white house into a diner or a pizza place.. lol Proud to be from Massachusetts!!!
DMCGREEK 1 year ago
If only he hadn't been a wimp. If he'd fucking fought back against Bush, maybe just maybe Bush would have lost.
ThirstyEye 1 year ago
Get down here Dukakis and answer these questions!
ThePoliticalMoose 1 year ago
He was too liberal for America.
pimmagrimm 1 year ago 2
@pimmagrimm much too liberal, not to mention wimpy!
OdinsCloud 8 months ago
What a stupid stupid man. This man had no business being nominated.
maebeavers1 1 year ago
A liberal, weak and boring democrat! This guy had the same wrong ideas that Obama has, but he was such a wimp.
sfowatcher 1 year ago
I can't stand the Bush's but I lived in Massachusetts with this moron as my Governor and he was the WORST. I was so glad to see him lose, am more happier that he is out of poltics. But I sure miss Bill clinton. Dukakis had no buisness getting the presidential nomination
GoreFreeTennessee 1 year ago
dukakis is a loser. these were the days. 3 gop landslides in a row! it would have been 4 if perot would have stayed out in 92
BillyBlues34 1 year ago
Lee Atwater paid for how he divided this country with lies and fear. He died a slow excruciating death, that gave him time to examine the misguided life he lived. Scriptures say "vengeance is mine I shall repay..." and vengeance is what all the world got to see.
rick9565 1 year ago 2
He would have been such a good president!
seltian 1 year ago 2
He would have been a great president.
seltian 1 year ago
@seltian "great president"!!!! Americans threw him into the garbage can where he belonged!
Why did he love Willy Horton more than honest Americans?
Can't understand that and no left-wingers will explain!
mikefastener 1 year ago
Sadly, he was too much of a liberal wimp.
rrk10 1 year ago
What are they chanting in the crowd?
bma051000 1 year ago
@bma051000 welfare cheese !
greeniem 1 year ago
just think of what the USA would be like if he won. NO BUSH 43
quarf53206 1 year ago
The beginning of Lee Atwater political campaigns...who cares about the issues or beliefs? Let's just get our guy elected and kill the other guy. You might not agree with what he said or believe, but the Duke was/is a great man who deserved better.
TBarrasso35 1 year ago 2
@TBarrasso35 dON'T BE TOO MUCH OF A PUSSY , YOULL end up smelling like anchovies
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xelycedahin 2 years ago
names please
rhibac 2 years ago
Wow...this was on my birthday.
aarclar721 2 years ago
if the democratic party is for the low income, poor and middle class.....then dont they need to make sure you remain poor so you will keep voting for them?
okrabay 2 years ago
The Democratic Party is nothing but a corporate schill.
NYJared04 2 years ago
@NYJared04 and republicans aren't?
davleuv 1 year ago
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an 8 minute speech
wtf
lol
greeniem 2 years ago
marcostar57..........I could not have said it better myself , you took the words right out of my mouth. We would have already had univ hc-single payer system in this country by now had we not wasted 4 or 8 yrs under republican control of office. imagine we had had Dukakis, Mondale, Clinton and now Obama and Carter before. Middle Class working families wouldm really be in a better place.
grant121008 2 years ago
Man, I would have wanted to break the neck of that jerkoff with the airhorn at the end.
CutChemist 2 years ago
Scary little Bastard!!!!!
ZekeMoffat1 2 years ago
I recently saw an old "Saturday Night Live" mock-campaign ad in which Michael Dukakis was a puppet. I honestly don't get the gag?
Beale64 2 years ago
If only he was black.....
fredwrench 2 years ago
Ahh 1988, the year Daddy Hitler ran the greatest smear campaign in presidential history and sadly enough the sheep fell for it hook line and sinker. Mr. dukakis was a breath of fresh air after the tyranny and corruption of fascist ronnie and company..
666bushisnazi666 2 years ago 2
Boy aren't you RIGHT! I was astonished at the media & the voters for falling for all the sick BS that year. What a better country & world we would be today if Dukakis had been elected,
marcostar57 2 years ago 6
Absolutely! Dukakis is a great man, and would have been a great and competent President
argentozombi 2 years ago 15
@argentozombi I highly doubt that.
springjo1 8 months ago
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fuck u
thedecider1984 2 years ago
Thank God he didn't win!
jladrae 2 years ago
It's too bad that he lost in 1988. At the age of 19, he was the first person I ever voted for. He was a sensible progressive, and his only problem was that he took the high road during the campaign. It was the 1988 campaign that put me on anger management issues against the right-wing. And of course, 1988 is all the proof in the world that "the mainstream media isn't/wasn't as liberal as right-wing people purport them to be."
PsychoPunk1965 2 years ago 4
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u sound fucking stupid thank god he lost
thedecider1984 2 years ago
Your opinion does not count. You silly Fox News watching Rush Limbaugh worshipping goon.
PsychoPunk1965 2 years ago 3
Dukakis's loss was his own fault. If he had been the star of "High Noon", Grace Kelly would have said:
"Why did you just stand there, and let him shoot you?"
Of course, the Bushes are motherfuckers. How else do Republicans win?
bennettsilverstein 2 years ago
Governor Dukakis gave the worst acceptance speech in American history.
jamesspencerjackson 2 years ago
Dukakis was GREAT! HE lost because of the the SMEAR campaign of motherfukcer bush..
Michthemitch 2 years ago 18
I agree and his son won in 2000 by smearing McCain in the primaries about fathering a black baby, but he actually adopted a girl from Bangledesh. This was done in South Carolina.
luvs2teach00 2 years ago
@Michthemitch
no.. HE lost becauso of the smear campaign implemented by lee Atwater..... "father" of Carl Rove...
kawika8087 1 year ago
@Michthemitch Not really he is one of those politicians only electable in Massachusetts. Just Like Ted Kennedy was!
OdinsCloud 8 months ago
He ran the Worst Campaign in history, second only to Al Gore.
3dartistguy 2 years ago
Dukakis had no buisness getting the Democratic nomination
GoreFreeTennessee 2 years ago
If Ducakis won he would be a great president because he would abolished the deathpenalty and ballance busgets. He should pick Bill Clinton for his VP insted of Benson.
Ja100453 2 years ago
I love The Duke!
argentozombi 2 years ago
It's absolutely despicable what Bush 41, Atwater and the rest of the Republican party cronies did to Mike Dukakis.
xxKYLExGxx 2 years ago
It's even more despicable how the American plebs reacted to Dukakis competely principled and reasonable reply to Bernard Shaw in that debate. It showed that the American plbels always prefers emotions over reason.
sondano 2 years ago
Dukakis P 1988 Bentson VP 1988-1990 Resigns
Clinton Vp 1990-1993
Ja100453 2 years ago
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Dukakis was a joke. Mondale was a joke. Nobody could take the democratic nominees seriously with Jimmy Carter fresh in our minds. I think in 2009 we need to be reminded that high taxes, high inflation, and wasteful spending is why our economy was bad in the 70's and its only going to make this recession worse. It was government who got us here in the first place with forcing risky loans on banks, now government can justify every wasteful spending bill bcuz we'll collapse without it.
Steelers26426 2 years ago
You mean that wasteful spending hasn't been a problem with modern Republican presidents? Lord, have you seen the figures of debt and deficit during the administrations of Reagan and Bush? That's scary. Clinton was several times the president Reagan was. Smaller government, surpluses, education, we were in our prime in the nineties. That's what we need, more flexibility and less partisanship.
Dukakis would have been a great president with superior character. Pick some new heroes.
jevoshawke13 2 years ago
I didn't say Reagan and Bush were my heroes. Wasteful spending was a problem for Republicans but far worse for democrats. BTW Clinton had a Republican congress. 90's were great
Steelers26426 2 years ago
I wouldn't say it's worse yet. I'll have to see the total numbers first. With luck, if he is an irresponsible spender, Obama will serve one term and then Michael Bloomberg will run.
jevoshawke13 2 years ago
Bloomberg's got no party affiliation after so many changes. He seems like a Republican now since he won't raise nyc taxes to avoid wealthier job owners to leave the city and risk jobs. Either way Obama will serve just one term because he can't control the crazy Dem controlled supermajority congress, and his own agenda that will destroy us. Its amazing how people elected a new deal type liberal like obama who was just like Mondale and Dukakis. He should have been landslided easily!
Coolioman07 2 years ago
we will probably collapse anyway.
ianjames67 2 years ago
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Fuck this man! Steele 2012!
jladrae 3 years ago
thats right but 1st we must elect more republicans.. then we get rid of osama jr in the white house.
thedecider1984 2 years ago
We don't need republicans to provide no plans to help our economy.
luvs2teach00 2 years ago
Nice grammar!
vccstudents 2 years ago
I don't worry about grammar when I am typing fast and a when a thought comes to my mind. I don't worry about it when I write informally. You worry about making through college. College boy
luvs2teach00 2 years ago
Your screen name says luvs2teachoo. I assumed you were educated. I am a teacher, and that is why I commented.
vccstudents 2 years ago
Do you have to take classes to be this stupid?
TimeWarp66 2 years ago 2
Bush SR was a disaster !!!!
Michthemitch 3 years ago 4
"Bush SR was a disaster !!!!"
Yer right, why? Because George Bush was for New World Order. Michael Dukakis would've slowed down the new world order process.
PVJared 2 years ago
libs suck
thedecider1984 2 years ago
conservatives are sick in their mind
Michthemitch 2 years ago 4
well uh at least we don't kill our babies.
thedecider1984 2 years ago
We don't send our troops to a wrong war, (iraq) where thousands of us young men were killed.
Michthemitch 2 years ago 2
ever hear of vietnam faggot
thedecider1984 2 years ago
Funny because the "Massachusetts Miracle" went bust after Dukasis' tax and spend policies hit the fan during the recession of the late 80's early 90's.
bittergunowner12 3 years ago
Dukakis was ahead in the polls for most of that year. Everything just went wrong for him.
dakrus 3 years ago
Dukakis reminds me of a news anchor man. Or maybe a game show host.just dosent seem like someone i can see as president
hellspit2003 3 years ago
I dont know..I do that too, trying to picture them as president and I could see it, but a news anchor too :)
jimmbo13 3 years ago
He only got 111 electoral votes compared to H.W. Bush's 426. He is the last Democratic nominee to lose in a landslide. Since 1992, the Democratic nominee has either won by a landslide or lost by just one state that would have made the difference, and the republicans have either lost by a landslide or won by a razer thin margin. Not looking good for the GOP. And the last time the Republican's won without the Bush Family was in 1972.
daniel9991237 3 years ago 2
The last two democratic victories were decisive, not lanslides. 1988 was decisive aswell, just much larger electoral margins. Obama didn't win in a lanslide. All theirs were were electoral college lanslides. a true lanslide is with a big popular vote margin and electoral college. meaning something like Johnson/Goldwater or Reagen/Carter or Reagen/Mondale
Coolioman07 3 years ago
That is a good point. Bush won over Dukakis because of Reagan's popularity, negative campaign ads, and the unbreakable coalition (at the time) of white working class Reagan democrats in the rust belt states and white Southerners. The base is not as strong as it used to becase Obama broke through that like Clinton did in 92 and 96 but with help of a 3rd party.
bravesfanforever31 3 years ago
bush/quayle88
wing667 3 years ago
Dukakis never had a chance . . . after the eight years of progress under Reagan, did anyone for a SECOND think that we would regress back to liberalism???
CartoonFanatic1 3 years ago
When this speech was given, it was actually very well recieved, and deservedly so. Many called it the highlight of his career at that point. Of course, revisionist history now makes Dukakis "uncool". Whatever.
ooeellama 3 years ago 2
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Lol this guy was a joke. If you look at the 1988 elections map, he only won the popular vote in ONE state!
Lightness1882 3 years ago
lightness1882, that's not true. He won the popular vote in ten states: MA, NY, RI, WV, IA, WI, MN, OR, WA, and HI. You're thinking of Walter Mondale, the 1984 Democratic nominee. He only won Minnesota his home state.
1prouddemocrat 3 years ago 4
dukakis spoke at our school last week.
he did what he always does...
ramble.
a lot.
/:
NeffiLoca 3 years ago
One of the worst campaigns/candidates in history. America was not going to elect a non-death penalty, uber liberal. I also never understood why people thought the Willie Horton ads were so offensive; they were completely accurate and addressed a legitimate issue.
jksonny 3 years ago
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That captivating speech along with a dime won him a phone call.
fingerbang666 3 years ago
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This guy was a utter joke
gopconservative78 3 years ago
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really? I knew he was the nominee in '88 but this was the first exstensive footage I have seen him in. what a sad excuse for a candidate. Zzzzzzzzzzzz. From Dukakis to Obama...Go Figure.
arizonacardinals2007 3 years ago
& believe it or not, this guy had a huge lead at one point
MustafaHamsho 3 years ago 2
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It's been 20 years and I have forgotten what a bore this guy was. I was dozing off in the first minute.
GLRII 3 years ago
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What the fuck were the Dems thinking picking this guy? The white America of 1988 was never going to vote for this wog. 20 years later, the terminally insane Dem idiots appear to have learned nothing. They actually now risk losing an unlosable election by picking a nigger. God I hope Obama wins (who needs more war for Israel?), but I have a lot of trouble believing white America is going to go for a nigger -- unless, like me, they think the GOP needs to be punished for John MoreWar McAmnesty.
spect8or 3 years ago
Dude, you fling the word "nigger" around like it's nothing. Show a little respect.
randomname349 3 years ago 12
@randomname349 no kidding, nigger
greeniem 1 year ago
well believe it 365-173 electoral votes 53%- 46% popular vote(both in favor of Obama)
Saxmaster1230 3 years ago 2
Courtesy of Obama's pals at ACORN.
bittergunowner12 3 years ago
Willie Horton was first mentioned by Al gore in the 88 primary race. Dukakis lost becasue he was an ACLU liberal. The truth is not dirty.
RedState70 3 years ago
Dukakis was asked if his wife Kitty was raped and murdered would he want the guy who did it to get executed. Dukakis said no.
He had to be full of shit about that answer.
FlavorRed 3 years ago
I wouldn't want the guy to be killed, either, if it happened to my wife. Revenge solves nothing, and it makes me sick to think of myself as someone who would take pleasure or satisfaction in seeing someone else killed. The murderer obviously felt pleasure and satisfaction in some part when he committed the crime, and I'd like to think I'm better than that and wouldn't need someone to die to make me feel better about the situation.
AwfulVision 3 years ago
Well, that's good then. Whatever.
FlavorRed 3 years ago
I think you're the one being cocky. Obama's speech last night was utterly incredible. I'm actually watching Dukakis's speech from 88 for a laugh because it was so lame compared to what Obama did yesterday. Obama's arguably the first candidate since 1960 who doesn't make Democrats think "Oh crap, what have we done".
desh79 3 years ago
What?? Are you serious?? The Dems can't agree to disagree. The Dems are have been so hijacked by liberal socialists is isn't even funny.
Lesank 3 years ago
Sean Hannity made Dukakis look like a dumbass last night after the Bill Clinton speech at the DNC.. He asked him what qualifies Obama to be president and all Dukakis could say was healthcare LOL Michael Dukakis worst presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter
reddogrice 3 years ago
Hannity is not a journalist and his entire job is screaming about liberals. Dukakis is not running for President.
P.S. How's this for why Obama would make a better candidate:
1) Getting us out of Iraq (you can't win an occuptation) and not sabre-rattling with Russia anymore (another Cold War? No thanks, McCain)
2) Tax cuts for 95+% of Americans vs. less than 20% of Americans.
3) A more robust energy policy that doesn't focus on drilling (which every economist agrees is not a sound policy).
AwfulVision 3 years ago 4
Also it's hilarious to see Republicans flocking to the last time they actually had a better candidate than the other side.
Kinda makes you forget how every GOP candidate from 1992 on was an absolute disaster and their only presidential win since then resulted in a multi-trillion dollar deficit (fiscal conservative, eh?) and one of the worst presidencies in history by anyone's estimation.
But by all means, keep socking it to a dude who ran in 1988. I'm sure you're hurting his feelings real bad!
AwfulVision 3 years ago 2
And Obama won't be any better, hes already proposing 13 TRILLION in new spending, no way of solving the deficit and taxing everyone to death, reminds me of the early Clinton administration. Remember that?
bittergunowner12 3 years ago
"Tax cuts for 95% of Americans "
Don't count on it. Clinton promised a tax cut as well. Then his first budget gave us the biggest tax increase in history. Democrats never cut taxes. If Obama wins, we all will pay.
"A more robust energy policy"
What is the policy exactly? It's another Obama pledge with no specifics.
Sorry if I seem brash, but both candidates are getting away with talking in platitudes & non specifics. I want to know EXACTLY waht the intend to pursue if elected.
GLRII 3 years ago
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Obama won't "change" anything. He's only slightly less beholden to the same interests as McCain.
When does Obama talk about restoring the Bill of Rights? When does Obama promote a "Solar Energy First" platform? When does Obama talk about ending the war in Iraq within 6 months?
Obama is a hack. McCain will steal the election from him and just like Gore or Kerry, Obama will sit back and let it happen.
As for me, I'm voting Nader in '08.
usaexpatriateact 3 years ago
44th president Barack Obama thats all I have to say
LibralTJ 3 years ago
Obama/Biden '08 !!!!!!!
mississipiguy 3 years ago
Believe it or not, Dukakis was over 15 points ahead in the polls during the Summer of '88. Things of course went down hill after that and then totally fell apart. I was 22 and voluntered on his campaign back in the day.
DomenicDee 3 years ago 2
personal attacks? i wonder if telling u he was gonna tax u had more to do w/ it
YoungRenaissanceMan 3 years ago
I still wonder how Dukakis N' his campaign made It through the Primaries.....I jus got into the political process but I haV noticed that Democrats are synonymous for puttin' out Lame candidates like Mondale, McGovern & Dukakis. I hope Obama does not end in the Democrats HaLL of Shame(Echo*5)....
usoro0123 3 years ago 4
Don't worry he won't.
gurney50 3 years ago
man I am angered at the republicans for not giving this man a chance! He would have made a better president than Bush.
glddraco 3 years ago
Give him a chance!? They tore him apart limb from limb, the republican party seeks to destroy all opposition by any means necessary, and that is why they must be defeated.
esb84 3 years ago
"the republican party seeks to destroy all opposition by any means necessary"
I agree and I'd say Democrats are the same way as well.
FlavorRed 3 years ago
Wrong. Studies have shown that progressives (call them Democrats, liberals, whatever) are much less rigid in their world views than conservatives and more open to accommodating differing views. This can be either praise or criticism depending on your own personal philosophy.
The fact that the Democrats don't use the Republican playbook of "win at any cost" proves it further. The Democrats have run on "Can't we all just get along?" and lost, numerous times.
AwfulVision 3 years ago 3
"Studies have shown that progressives (call them Democrats, liberals, whatever) are much less rigid in their world views than conservatives and more open to accommodating differing views." What studies? "The fact that the Democrats don't use the Republican playbook of "win at any cost" proves it further." Proves what? You're right. Democrats have their own play book to win at any cost. They are just as bad as Republicans.
FlavorRed 3 years ago
Total moron
TheCapitalistKid 3 years ago
shit. The difference between Obama and Dukakis is guts. Dukakis didnt defend himself against attacks. Obama is on OFFENSE pounding on John McCain.
mikeyohioo 3 years ago
....uhhh not to mention Dukakis was short, dull, uninspiring, boring, negative, and a terrible public speaker. Obama is the opposite in every regard. And just watch.. he will win over 300 electoral votes. Count on it.
RJY4356 3 years ago
ivfry
Claronium780 3 years ago
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shut up u all ash holes...... accept the fate
mikeoze 3 years ago
US lost a great opportunity to have a Greek man for president. what can I say that's a pity! and the worst thing is that he was beaten by Bush!!! oh my God!
greenglance183 3 years ago 4
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The Dumbocrats nominate losers. Carter 1980 Mondale 1984 Dukakis 1984 Gore 2000 Kerry 2004
The next loser will be Barrack Hussein in the Fall of 2008! Dreams and change..blah.blah..blah
circlecityusa 3 years ago
Sounds like you are a hard-core Republican, or whatever.
frijolero79 3 years ago 4
no, The dems pick terrible candidates, how could they let Bush beat them twice if he was so bad, because the dems are worse
Bring moderates to washington
thefreak985 3 years ago
Are u kidding? you really think McCain can beat Obama? Check out any electoral map you can find right now. Obama is ahead in more than enough states and will likely gian. Don't be so downcast... I'm telling you he will WIN.
RJY4356 3 years ago 3
McCain 270,Obama268 electroal map
gilani20 3 years ago
Actually currently almost all the electoral maps have Obama with well more than 300 electoral votes. Some say 317 some 344, depends on which states he's ahead in each week. Either way McCain has a lot less than 270 and a much harder time getting there.
RJY4356 3 years ago 2
McCain+Bush+27% approval rating=President Obama
milesusmc0151 3 years ago 6
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Dukakis = Obama
subpar07 3 years ago
17 point lead after this convention, to losing the election in November. Dukakis ran a terrible campaign and beat himself.
stevenson52 3 years ago 6
You could at least get it right. Al Gore raised the legitimate Willie Horton issue first against Dukakis in Iowa. What a racist he is huh?
paulmelk 3 years ago 2
A great man. with a great vision.
LifeInsuranceLife 3 years ago 6
At the age of 19, my first presidential vote was for Governor Michael Dukakis. I am still disappointed that he did not become president.
PsychoPunk1965 3 years ago 5
The Democrats need to stop nominating New England liberals. People like Dukakis and Kerry will not win.
jd24717 3 years ago
Funny. They're about to do it again only the New England liberal lives in Illinois.
Maestrohbill 3 years ago
Only he might win.
jd24717 3 years ago 2
Won't happen, though. Once folks find out that all he really wants to do is explode the national debt and have $7 a gallon gasoline when he pulls out of Iraq overnight....it'll be over.
Oh - and despite his promises, he's not going to withdraw from Iraq, either - not the quick one he's claiming.
Maestrohbill 3 years ago