(Apologies for the terrible video, but it’s all I could find.) There’s a great post on MetaFilter right now about the story behind President George H. W. Bush’s “This is crack cocaine” address to the nation. “This is crack cocaine,” Bush solemnly announced, holding up a plastic bag filled with a white chunky substance in his Sept. 5 speech on drug policy. It was “seized a few days ago in a park across the street from the White House . . . . It could easily have been heroin or PCP.” In 1989 the White House came...
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Great Moments in Campaign Advertising: "Read My Lips"
This is the ad that, maybe more than anything else, most likely sank President George H. W. Bush’s chances for re-election. Of course, it was those tax increases that made way for years of balanced budgets under Clinton, but don’t tell anybody. And, of course, that raising the gas tax was maybe just a little before its time, not to mention a policy many progressives want to further. But, it was a really, really effective ad. This is exactly the script I bet the Republican nominee will use in 2012.
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