"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/04/2016 at 21:13 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/04/2016 at 21:13 • Filed to: None | 2
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...let’s relive what was possibly the sickest burn in the history of vice presidential debates.
Some !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for you youngsters out there. I liked Lloyd Bentsen. Too bad he was running with Michael Dukakis.
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> ttyymmnn
10/04/2016 at 21:15 |
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I watched this last week. It’s fantastic.
Honeybunchesofgoats
> ttyymmnn
10/04/2016 at 21:16 |
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I’m of the opinion that JFK was the most overrated president in this country’s history, but I still agree that that was a sick burn.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> ttyymmnn
10/04/2016 at 21:19 |
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Don’t forget the immortal General Stockdale “Who am l!? Why am I here?”
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ttyymmnn
> Honeybunchesofgoats
10/04/2016 at 21:20 |
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I think you have to look at JFK inside the context of his time. It’s easy to do a Monday morning quarterback on his presidency, but as a part of his era, I think he was the right guy. I’m no Reagan fan, but I think that he was the right man at the right time to drag the country out of the 70s. And I’m a lifelong Democrat.
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ttyymmnn
> My X-type is too a real Jaguar
10/04/2016 at 21:22 |
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Oh, I forgot about that guy.
TheHondaBro
> ttyymmnn
10/04/2016 at 21:23 |
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But what does Jack Kennedy know about Hawaii, huh?
Alfalfa
> ttyymmnn
10/04/2016 at 21:24 |
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28 years ago, this is what was possibly considered inappropriate. Oh how the times have changed.
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ttyymmnn
> Alfalfa
10/04/2016 at 21:26 |
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Yeah, Quayle’s response is actually pretty good. Decorum was still a thing back then, and he got a lot of support for his calling out Bentsen. But I think Bentsen was absolutely correct in calling Quayle on the comparison.
Birddog
> Honeybunchesofgoats
10/04/2016 at 21:29 |
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Oh boy! Don’t go saying that too loud. You’ll be branded ignorant, racist and uneducated.
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> ttyymmnn
10/04/2016 at 21:37 |
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I agree that he was right for his era, but I also think he tends to get a lot of credit that he doesn’t deserve. I think he gets way too much credit for civil rights, for instance, which was something Bobby was always more passionate about.
And I mean, there’s that whole Vietnam thing. Although I do think he deserves credit for resisting all of the absolute psychotics in the military like Curtis Lemay
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ttyymmnn
> Honeybunchesofgoats
10/04/2016 at 21:38 |
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There was that Apollo thing, too.
John Norris (AngryDrifter)
> ttyymmnn
10/04/2016 at 21:56 |
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It seemed like a kill at the time. But Bush/Quayle still beat Dukakis/Bentsen in the election; perhaps showing that the VP debate is pointless.
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ttyymmnn
> John Norris (AngryDrifter)
10/04/2016 at 22:00 |
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Exactly.
EL_ULY
> ttyymmnn
10/04/2016 at 22:35 |
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Ohhhh fuckin buuuuurn!!!!!
PotbellyJoe and 42 others
> Honeybunchesofgoats
10/05/2016 at 09:07 |
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There are more than a few items that he gets credit for even though he dragged his feet on them while speaking highly about the need for them to be legislated. Had he not been killed, I don’t know if the proper rallying point would have existed to get many of his causes from idea to reality.
He was an ideas guy and it was hard at the time to get enough people to cross aisles to support causes. His death galvanized a lot of movements to affect change.
In many ways, his legacy was made from what was done in his honor, not in his time in office.
It’s a difficult situation to parse because the aura that exists around him clouds the truth in the same way that the sneakiness of his family’s reputation makes people want to chisel in deeper to find the motivation.