Monday, January 22, 2007
Mondale The Great!
"I think Cheney has stepped way over the line. I think Cheney's been at the center of cooking up farcical estimate of nation risks, weapons of mass destruction and the 9/11 connection to Iraq."
Walter Mondale: Worst. Vice President. Ever!
Mondale recalled that when he came home to Minnesota after he and Carter lost their 1980 re-election, someone asked him "what on earth [do] you have to be proud of" after a one-term administration considered to be a failure.
"I answered, 'Well, we told the truth, we obeyed the law and we kept the peace.'" (1)
And let's not forget the most significant failure - second only to the hostage CRISIS - of the Carter-Mondale Administration, the botched rescue mission and helicopter fiasco in Tehran, Operation Eagle Claw, in 1980.
Yeah, Fritzy - you've got so very, very much of which to be proud!
The Carter-Mondale team was a laughing stock, both nationally and internationally, while they were in office. They still are. Old DemocRATS like Mondale never die. The rose-colored glasses they wear just keep turning a darker shade of pink.
1) Quote below photo from the Mondale "Cheney Steps Way Over The Line" from similar story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, available by free subscription.
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