“I Am Not Rooting for Jeb”
Unvarnished opinions from Michael Dukakis on the Bush family, his law-school classmate Antonin Scalia, and Obama’s foreign policy missteps.
'Michael Dukakis, the former governor of Massachusetts, is most famous for his losing run against George H.W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election. The campaign is remembered for its harsh negativity: Dukakis was on the wrong end of the infamous Willie Horton ad, which helped paint him as too liberal to be elected. Bush went on to carry 40 states.
Dukakis currently teaches public policy at UCLA. With another Bush vying for the Republican nomination, and a New England liberal in the hunt for the Democratic nod, I decided to call Dukakis and get his sense of the race. We discussed Donald Trump, Antonin Scalia (a Harvard Law School classmate), and Hillary Clinton, whose foreign policy views differ from his own passionately held beliefs. Dukakis also offered a typically candid assessment of the Bush family. He appears to have conducted his half of the conversation with his office door open. The interview has been edited and condensed.'>>>
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/02/michael_dukakis_on_the_bush_family_antonin_scalia_and_donald_trump.html
