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African-americans, black men in particular are dangerous. >> its never been proven with absolute certainty that bush himself knew, but certainly the super structure of the bush campaign was well aware of who was doing this and how they were doing it. >> the commercial had been running for nearly a month before the bush campaign intervenes. >> i wrote them a letter as chairman of the bush campaign saying we dont want you to run this anymore and we werent happy with it. >> but even if they eventua...

Win in 1988. but winning in politics often means getting down in the mud. >> george bush understood that politics was a blood sport, and he was willing to get out there and do what he needed to do by way of going on the offense and that sort of a thing when he had to. but he wasnt particularly comfortable with it. >> one of the things that bushs campaign are determined to do is hammer this idea that bush is strong on crime. michael ducaucus is soft on crime. >> bushs campaign about furloughs for...

>> i just remember being inspired and moved and proud of him. we talked about how he wanted to call upon the greater good in all of us to serve our nation. >> george also makes a pledge he will live to regret. >> my opponent wont rule out raising taxes but i will and the congress will push me to raise taxes and ill say no and theyll push again and ill say to them read my lips, no new taxes. >> even though he got the nomination he still has a mountain to climb if hes going to prove hes worthy of ...

Agenda on both foreign policy and domestic policy. >> bush was able to say im kindler, gentler. ducaucus was a horrible candidate, really bad. and bush was just more likable. >> as the race enters the homestretch bush pulls ahead in the polls. he returns home to be with his family on election night. >> hes been exercising and relaxing and jittering around, getting a little nervous. and hes not jumping up and down for joy because hes not counting this victory yet. theres still polls open all over...

Ae horton ad, but is that ad affective? >> you know, the willie horton ad gave george herbert walker bush his one big black eye in history. the very fact he allowed him to convince him to run with such a racist ad. it was defective in the sense that michael ducaucus lost in 1988 and he was able to win. but the fact donald trump is using blatant xenophobia, hate, and i think we have to talk about the bomber in florida, we have to talk about squirrel hill and pennsylvania, and we have to see that ...

Record even with health care reform. >> andrea, i know that some people would say that its because of health care reform that he doesnt talk about his massachusetts record because to talk about what he did as governor would immediately conjure up the record on health care. if he had been governor of one of the other 49 other states, would he will more apt to talk about his record? do americans associate massachusetts with liberalism? >> i think its a combination, health care, the mandate, the ri...

Finding out that the budget is way off of estimates. with me now are two msnbc political analyst, joan walsh, and david corn, the author of "showdown." is there a constituency for donald trump? a group of americans waiting for a trump endorsement so they know what to do or trump involvement so they know to whom to write checks? >> i really hope thats not the case, michael. i do think he is playing to part of the republican base which just wont give up the ghost on making and portraying barack ob...

A nasty campaign particularly when you see people like the creator of the willy horton had, creating ads for restore our future. the same guy that did the add in 1988 against the campaign of michael ducaucus. they were very ugly, race tinged, we may have a very nasty next six months. >> i have been saying that since this time last year. saying to people that the reelection effort in 2012 will get very, very ugly. and that folks who are complaining about what happened back then, they ought to get...

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