Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad

Infamous attack ad from 1988 U.S. Election against Michael Dukakis. This ad was ran by the National Security PAC, not directly by the Bush/Quayle campaign.

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[Stephanie Nicole]

Do you recall having a President Dukakis?

[steve billig]

He's from Israel man he was just curious.

[fstratzero]

So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. - Lee Atwater

Good job racist.

[codywrite]

typical bleeding heart lib

[starvewars]

george bush senior is used fear mongering to get votes

[John Oh]

what does this have to do with willie horton? your off topic

[Moonbiot]

ZING

[AlmondBaller]

Republicans always try to sabotage mental health and police budgets. The biggest expansion of mental health care in recent years came in the Affordable Care Act, which, of course, Republicans tried to fully repeal. Many House Republicans also voted against a Bush-era move towards requiring insurers to treat mental illness like physical illnesses.

[Menegoth]

Being the biggest beneficiaries of American foreign aid, you'd reckon Israelis would have at least have some understanding of American history

[CrazyKillah54]

Hahaha, lmfao



[Mrdie]

2. Ronald Reagan met with Prince Sihanouk who was a good friend of Kim Il Sung and the frontman for the Khmer Rouge's "government in exile." The CIA financed the Khmer Rouge and other anti-communist forces against the Soviet-backed government. The USA under Reagan (and Carter, of course) gave the Khmer Rouge's shadow "government" diplomatic support. Pol Pot himself called for foreign investment in a "free" Cambodia in the 80's and by the 90's had given up on "communist" rhetoric entirely.

[Mrdie]

1. First off, the Soviets were initially not aware of the full extent of the famine due to local officials covering it up. See for instance "The Years of Hunger," a work by two bourgeois economists, Davies and Wheatcroft. When informed, grain procurements were altered in response. You also seem unaware that collectivization went hand-in-hand with the large-scale use of tractors and other mechanized means of obtaining productivity which, again, pretty much ensured no famines in the future.