Can someone explain to me what the whole deal about Dukakis in a tank was about. I've seen the pictures. What's the big deal?
He did look awkward, but only when I view the picture in an historical context. I agree with you. I do not see the significance, although that is probably because it epitomised the flow of the campaign, which we're both too young to know much about.
From what I understand (I evidently don't know first-hand, being 3 at the time), it was not so much the picture as what the picture represented: a guy who came off as goofy and unfit to lead a country.
I remember the incident at the time, and yeah, that was pretty much it. He looked silly in the picture and it played right into the image of Dukakis as someone who wasn't fit to be commander-in-chief during the Cold War.
