Blackboard-REV1-Dukakis, Mike (Michael Stanley)-[Democratic], 1988

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Identifier: P-36-1037

For seven and a half years, George Bush supported cutbacks in American education. He even sat by while college loans for working families were cut. And now, suddenly, George Bush says he'll be the education president. Michael Dukakis won't just give us slogans. He's committed to a new national college loan program to make sure that any American kid can afford to go to college. Michael Dukakis for president. A real commitment to education. The best America is yet to come.

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In this 1988 political advertisement, Dukakis, Michael Stanley (Mike) criticizes George H. W. Bush’s cuts to education and pledges support for a new national college loan program. The advertisement challenges Bush’s abrupt rebranding as an “education president” and presents Dukakis as genuinely committed to education reform, using images of deteriorating education materials juxtaposed with Dukakis’s triumphant demeanor.