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Your repeating of urban myths like this are why I have no respect for anything you say.
First "potatoe" is an accepted secondary spelling of the word. Second, it was the preferred spelling on the answer sheet that Quayle was given for the spelling bee. He would have been more justly criticized if he had corrected the teachers who designed the questions and answers.
Dan Quayle is one of the smartest politicians to reach the levels he did in decades and a perfect example of the media's abilities at character assasination.
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Your repeating of urban myths like this are why I have no respect for anything you say.
First "potatoe" is an accepted secondary spelling of the word. Second, it was the preferred spelling on the answer sheet that Quayle was given for the spelling bee. He would have been more justly criticized if he had corrected the teachers who designed the questions and answers.
Dan Quayle is one of the smartest politicians to reach the levels he did in decades and a perfect example of the media's abilities at character assasination.
Let's take a look at some of the "urban legends" of this "brilliant man" - Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back! … That's a Hoosierism. You've got to get used to that!
- Speech to California delegates to the Republican National Convention (17 August 1988)
- Bobby Knight told me this: "There is nothing that a good defense—cannot beat a better offense." In other words a good offense wins.
- Speech to the City Club of Chicago (8 September 1988)
- The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
- Press conference (15 September 1988), reported in Esquire, 8/92, The New Yorker, 10/10/88, p.102. Actual wording: The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. [followup] No, not our nation's, but in World War II. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history.
with me you get the future. - Speech in Illinois (October 1988), quoted in Cathleen Decker (1988-10-19), "Quayle, in Illinois, Says He's `the Future'" Los Angeles Times
- People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
- Interview with Hendrik Hertzburg (October 1988), referring to Grigori Rasputin
- We are ready for any unforseen event that may or may not occur.
- Cited to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (27 September 1990)
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- You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
- Speech to American Samoans (April 1989)
- Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
- Press comment in Hawaii (25 April 1989)
- When you take the UNCF model that, what a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind is being very wasteful, how true that is.
- Speech to the United Negro College Fund (9 May 1989), mangling the Fund's slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
- The other day [the President] said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. Would you like a puppy?
- cited to the Los Angeles Times (16 May 1989)
- I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy, but that could change.
- cited to the Wall Street Journal (26 May 1989)
- Mars is essentially in the same orbit.… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
- Press comment on Mars exploration (11 August 1989), televised on CNN and referenced in 9/1/89 Washington Post article: "A Quayle Vision of Mars")
- Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn't help matters when primetime TV has Murphy Brown—a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman—mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice."
- Speech to the Commonwealth Club of California (19 May 1992)
- You’re close, but you left a little something off. The "e" on the end.
- Luis Muñoz Rivera Elementary School in Trenton, New Jersey (15 June 1992), mistakenly correcting student William Figueroa on his spelling of "potato."
- I believe that I've made good judgments in the past, and I think I've made good judgments in the future.
- We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.
- We understand the importance of having the bondage between the parent and the child.
- I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.
- The future will be better tomorrow
- I was known as the chief graverobber of my state.
Yep....one smart cookie that Quale.
It is your total disregard for the facts, your rewriting of history and your obvious lack of any grasp on either current events or history that make me rather indifferent to your respect or lack of it.
< Message edited by SpinnerofTales -- 11/19/2009 8:56:00 PM >
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