Posts with the tag 'Michael Dukakis'

Dukakis Plays The Race Card

I’ve long believed that with Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee, that the Democrats would play the race card to insulate Obama from attacks.

And, of course, who better to play the race card than Mike Dukakis, who thinks the infamous Willie Horton ad that demonstrated his poor record on crime was also a race-based attack.

Former Gov. Michael Dukakis said Monday that John McCain’s presidential campaign is using the same race-based tactics that were used against him in his 1988 presidential run.

The Brookline Democrat was referring to a recent McCain ad that claimed Democratic nominee Barack Obama received economic advice from Franklin Raines, the former CEO of the recently bailed out mortgage lender Fannie Mae. The ad features images of Raines and Obama, two African Americans, and then an image of an elderly white woman.

Asked if he considered the ad to be in the same vein as the infamous ‘Willie Horton’ ad ad run by a third party group in support of George H.W. Bush in the 1988 presidential campaign, Dukakis told PolitickerMA.com: “Essentially, yes.”
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First, Dukakis said, the McCain ad is based on a lie. Raines isn’t one of Obama’s closest economic advisors, he said. Other members from Fannie Mae have advised Obama but the McCain camp chose to focus the ad specifically on Raines, an African American.

“Why did they pick that person from Fannie Mae?” he asked rhetorically.

What Dukakis has chosen to ignore is that McCain also has an ad highlighting Obama’s ties to Jim Johnson, former FAnnie MAe CEO who also once led Obama’s VP selection team. Johnson is white. So, to ask the same question Dukakis did, “Why did they pick that person from Fannie Mae?”

Must have been Johnson’s race.

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3 comments September 22nd, 2008

Dukakis Unable To Name A Single Specific Accomplishment of Barack Obama

Mike Dukakis, who is battling with Deval Patrick for the label of the worst governor of Massachusetts, was on with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes after Bill Clinton’s speech to the Democratic National Convention, and when challenged by Hannity to name a specific accomplishment of Barack Obama between his years in the Illinois State Senate and the U.S. Senate, he could come up with a single thing. Nothing. Nada. Zero. Zilch.

It was classic. I hope you caught that one.

UPDATE: The Massachusetts Republican Party issued the following statement in response to John Kerry’s speech at the Democrat National Convention.

US Senate Candidate Jeff Beatty said, “America can’t afford to have Barack Obama and John Kerry bringing their remakes of the same, tired failed liberal policies of the past to Washington at a time when so much is at stake. Barack Obama is not ready to lead and John Kerry never has.”

Beatty added,“As a U.S. senator, I’ll draw on my experience as a business executive to develop and support comprehensive National Economic policies that pass the “common sense” test and I will use my leadership experience as a former FBI Special Agent, CIA counter-terrorism officer and member of the Army’s elite Delta Force to pursue National Security policies that will truly secure America’s future at home and abroad. We don’t need a weaker America with Barack Obama and John Kerry, we need a stronger America with John McCain and Jeff Beatty.”

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1 comment August 27th, 2008


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