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America never really had an occasion to think about Michael Dukakis for about oh TWENTY YEARS until he showed up in a nice NYT graphic yesterday proving, conclusively, that he could never have defeated George H.W. Bush in an election because he was half a foot shorter. Dukakis was a hilarious failure of a candidate, and now he says the Obama campaign is doing better than his did, which is a true and obvious statement. MORE »

• Obama wants to put every American in jail, with the possible exception of Bill Ayers. [RedState]
• Oh look, it’s Michael Dukakis, joining us from god knows where to apologize for the last two decades. [Andrew Sullivan]
• Obama is unfit to be President because Russia is much larger than Iran, according to geography. [Political Punch]
• David Paterson characterizes McCain with metaphors about not being able to see stuff well, which is humorous because Paterson is blind. [City Room]
• In this place called “Snohomish County,” some Republican distributed $3 bills that featured Obama in Arab headgear and the traditional Muslim car, the camel. [Fresh Intelligence]
• That world famous “Yes We Can” video will be recreated live, sort of, the night Obama accepts the nomination. [Political Ticker]

Beloved 1988 Dem nominee Michael Dukakis was such a crappy candidate that he lost to despised vice president George Bush, so now he’s warning America that the Republicans will still figure out a way to keep the White House beyond 2008, even though everybody hates the Republicans and all the GOP candidates and especially Bush Junior and Dick Cheney. MORE »

Of Northeastern University, that is. Yesterday we passed along the rumor that Gore was on the shortlist for the presidency of Northeastern. But it now seems that they’ve given the job to a linguist with more vowels in his last name. MORE »

Our second to last Wonk’d of the slow season. Please keep collecting the lamest excuses for “famous” that you can — and remember, we’re including famous-for-DC outside of DC — and send them to . In this issue, an actually rather impressive-for-August number of sightings of famous-for-DC, including lots of generals (Clark, Meyers, McCaffrey), George Will hyping and diving, Tucker Carlson at McDonald’s, Leahy, Dukakis, Coulter, Baldridge, Koppel, Chertoff, Woodruff, Kerry, McClellan, Pennington, Clinton, Obama, King, Sharpton, Gannon, Hunt.

They’re all after the jump.

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