Me: Who was Gerald Ford's vice president?
Mom: I don't know.
Me: And carter. Who was his running mate?
Mom: I don't know, why?
Me: Because for some reason I just realized that I know the names of the major parties' candidates for the elections dating back to 1984.
Mom:Who's Hubert Humphrey? Was he with Ford? And I think Mondale for Carter.
Me: I don't think so. So, do you want to hear?
Mom: Okay.
Me: Reagan Bush Mondale Ferraro Bush Quayle Dukakis Bentson Bush Quayle Clinton Gore Clinton Gore Dole Kemp Gore Lieberman Bush Cheney Bush Cheney Kerry Edwards McCain Palin Obama Biden. Jack Kemp played football. Lloyd Bentson was in the Freemasons. Geraldine Ferraro had to lie to say that she was a bad cook so she didn't look too girlie when she ran for veep. I learned about the Ferarro thing this weekend on "Wait Wait."
Mom: (googling things) Nelson Rockefeller for Ford and, yes, Carter had Mondale.
Me: What happened to Spiro Agnew?
Mom: An affair? And something about a water fountain I think?
Me: Aw shit, ya know who would know all this off the top of his head?
Mom: Dad.
Me: Yeah.
I'm still going to google the answer to the Spiro Agnew question but I'd rather have the story from Dad. Heh.
PS Gerald Ford was born on July 14, just like all the cool people.
You forgot about Admiral Stockdale. And H ross Perot. Stockdale ruled " i wasn't listening i turned my hearing aid off" was one of the best debate lines ever uttered. way to be make a wicked happy glog entry, really brightened my day. ( drenched in sarcasm, obviously)
ReplyDeleteGet over it. Ha! Just kidding, obv. and I stated "the major parties" because, of course, in 2000 there was Nader LaDuke and Buchanan Hitler or something like that.
ReplyDeletethey were major enough to get into the debates, nader wasjust minor enough to ruin the country, thank walph
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