NPR: Dukakis: Sorry, Y'all

Dukakis: Sorry, Y'all

In an interview with CBS's Katie Couric yesterday, '88 Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis took responsibility for the country's current state of affairs.

Katie: When you're here in Denver and you see all this hoopla do you ever wonder, gee, what if?

Dukakis: Look, I owe the American people an apology. If I had beaten the old man you'd of never heard of the kid and you wouldn't be in this mess. So it's all my fault and I feel that very, very strongly. So this is an important election for us. Let me tell 'ya.

While we're at it, just think if Alexander Hamilton had drawn his pistol in the duel with Aaron Burr...we might be spending this week blogging the Federalist National Convention.

h/t Folkenflik

-- Evie Stone

1:43 PM ET | 08-27-2008 | permalink

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Wow. Just -- wow. Don't be too hard on yourself, Mike.

Sent by George | 2:19 PM ET | 08-27-2008

Nah, I don't blame Dukakis for 41/43, they would have found a way to steal the prize one way or another.

Sent by YatPundit | 2:40 PM ET | 08-27-2008

"you'd HAVE never heard" -- it's a verb, Evie.

Sent by Angry old grammarian | 2:54 PM ET | 08-27-2008

An observation about the Hilary holdouts. It's sad to think that these folks are so hurt by the primary outcome as to disregard their principles than to recognize that there isn't a hare's breath between the policies of Hilary and Obama. It's sad to think that their anger over the outcome of a process to which all the primary candidates were subject, would move them to vote for a Goldwater Republican who is a Ronald Reagan wanna be; whose only real interest is running the military (still trying to win the Vietnam War), who has so little regard for and knowledge of the serious economic problems we face and that his economic advisors are so out of ideas that they would steer him to pursue decades old and failed "supply-side" economic policies that even its architect (former Reagan Budget Chief David Stockman) admitted was a grand experiment that failed. It leaves me to wonder whether the real reason why they would turn their backs on their principles and ignore the potential that McCain like the Bushes will stack the Supreme Court and Federal Benches with right wing zealots, and the potential that he will seek to reinstate the draft in order to fight oil wars, is that they are just afraid to vote for a black man; even one who is an extremely intelligen, a grass roots organizer, and a law professor who pulled himself up from being raised by a single Mom to graduate from Harvard and Columbia Univ. Hmmmm

Sent by Mihcael Miller | 3:12 PM ET | 08-27-2008

Angry old grammarian --

As a fellow foot soldier (if an imperfect one) in the grammar wars, I feel your pain. But that particular quote wasn't my doing; I pasted it directly from the official CBS transcript of the interview.

Sent by Evie Stone, NPR | 7:48 PM ET | 08-27-2008

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