Dukakis: It's all my fault

In a way, it all began with Michael Dukakis. At least he thinks so. And he wants to apologize for what has happened over the past eight years.

Certainly you remember the governor of Massachusetts who left the Democratic National Convention in 1988 with his party's presidential nomination and a double-digit lead over the soon-to-be Republican nominee George H.W. Bush. And you remember what happened next: The attack of the Republican meat-grinder. At least that's the way Dukakis remembers it.

Katie Couric, the CBS News anchor, ran into Dukakis at a security checkpoint at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and taped this interview.

Dukakis doesn't mince words about what happened as a result of the work he did in 1988.

"We ran a great primary campaign and screwed up the final," he says.

But what does all this have to do with the final months of the George W. Bush presidency--and what Dukakis calls "the worst national administration in my lifetime?"

Simple, he says:

Look, I owe the American people an apology. If I'd beaten the old man, you'd never have heard of the kid and we wouldn't be in this mess. So it's all my fault, and I feel that very, very strongly.

-- James Gerstenzang

Comments

[Chris Casino]

Dukakis doesn't owe the American people anything. It was them who didn't vote for him. If they had, he would have beaten the old man and we would have thus probably never heard of the kid.

If anything, we owe him an apology!