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...Biden tape affair, Dukakis also lost his campaign manager, John Sasso, who created the anti-Biden tape and resigned after acknowledging he misled the governor about...
...Sasso's vacancy was filled on Oct. 8 with the appointment of Susan Estrich, a law professor on leave from Harvard Law School, to run the campaign With the appointment of Jensen, Dukakis has filled the last remaining gap in his senior campaign structure...
Debate, as John Sasso well knows, requires discussion between candidates. The public then decides who has been more convincing. The candidate who is challenged has the opportunity to respond at a level of seriousness to the issues put forth by his rival. If Dukakis charges Biden with being disingenuos, Biden can counter by explaining why Kinnock and the Kennedys hold such a sway over him. But the press justifies revelations, such as those pertaining to Biden, by invoking the right of scrutiny which is by design not a dialogue, but rather an examination...
...original substantive issue--what Joe Biden stands for--which is what compelled Sasso to tip the media, is kept locked away, no one being brave enough to raise it--least of all John Sasso. Sasso was cognizant of the dynamics of revelation and press scrutiny. He knew that a secretly revealed tip would knock Biden out of the race, while a substantive speech about Biden by Dukakis would only serve to put more issues on the table. As any campaign manager knows, and as many were quick to point out, if the choice is between adding issues to the agenda...
...question is not whether JohnSasso was wrong, but rather whether he was right, in the broadest sense of that word. The position Dukakis took--and took too long in taking--was that Sasso did what anybody would have done, and that anybody just isn't good enough...