Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But it's different now--presidential candidates have to provide their own ceremonial trappings. If Elvis were still alive, George Bush wouldn't have had to eat pork rinds in 1988. If Elvis had lived, Michael Dukakis might be president. Sure, his eyebrows look funny, and tank helmets don't...
Even now Clinton is being grilled about his record as Governor by news organizations that regret having taken at face value Michael Dukakis' 1988 claims about the "Massachusetts miracle," which dissipated into deep recession almost immediately after the election. Thus Clinton's supposed allies in the press are doing to...
But no one recalls that telling exchange in the second debate because it came just minutes after moderator Bernard Shaw asked Michael Dukakis the Big Question presumably all America wanted answered: "If Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?" Even with...
Bush would probably prefer not to be judged on his record of prophecy regarding Iraq and China. But at least those subjects were raised. What comes through from the 1988 debates is the stunning irrelevancy of most of the exchanges. Never mentioned was the fast-escalating savings-and-loan crisis...
Part of the problem rests with the way all debates since 1960 have been organized. Multiple questions and time-limited answers (no candidate has ever been granted more than three minutes to respond; this year the maximum is two minutes) do not lend themselves to serious exploration of issues. Also...