Saw Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story last night. Highly recommend it. Add it to your queue. See how a Georgie boy, through South Carolina local politics, came on to the national scene through Ronald Reagan via Ed Rollins and focused politics on race and wedge issues. Atwater, and then Karl Rove and George W. Bush, perfected the win-at-all-costs politics that puts the race card, planted lies and fake patriotism in the forefront as they rob the little guy from the back room. A must see!
You can see Atwater in the present day Tea Party/Palin/Beck "he's not one of us" Obama-is-a-scary-black-guy coded racism that influences many non-curious Americans. It has it's roots in the planted attacks on Kitty & Michael Dukakis, Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. History repeating.
[NOTE: Look at Bush's eyes in the clip below. Cocaine is very powerful drug.]
Source: http://www.boogiemanfilm.com/
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