(blowing a 17-point lead by refusing to fight back against smear campaigns, as Dukakis did and had no excuse for doing, IS an abysmal failure...especially since we were told, over and over again "it HAS to be Dukakis...he's ELECTABLE" all through 1988).
And The "Hymietown" thing was just one meaningless word spoken by a tired guy at the end of the day. IT's trivial compared to Lyndon Johnson having to be taught how to say "Negro"
I doubt Jesse actually said the Nixon thing). Furthermore, the "Hymietown" thing(which he shouldn't have said but which isn't that big a deal compared to what black people have had to endure from the white politicians they've supported over the years)was infinitesmally unimportant compared to Reagan's insistence on bullying the Senate into approving the sale of the AWACS surveillance planes to the Saudis...planes the Saudis used almost certainly, we can assume, to surveill Israeli defense installations).
Jesse's position on the I/P dispute was for two states...the position everybody, INCLUDING the Israelis, knew was the only realistic solution, yet it was the position that the Israeli government demonized as "anti-Israel" and the position that Israeli apologists insisted at the time was tantamount to antisemitism. They KNEW they were wrong to do that, and they did it anyway. It makes the currently stated Israeli government support for a two-state solution completely cynical and bogus. They should have accepted the need for two-states from the start, since they always knew it was going to be impossible to get peace and recognition from the Arab world without it.
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