Fritz Mondale

[Reaper]

Former VPOTUS get their own threads, right? Even when they lose worse than almost anybody in the presidential bid?

Walter "Fritz" Mondale, 93.

[Steve of phpBB]

I didn’t realize how close he came to losing MN.

[brian]

No one’s ever gonna top Carter and Mondale’s record for longest-lived President and Vice President. Gonna be at least 189 years depending how much longer Carter holds on.

[The Sybian]

I would have bet he was long dead.

[Pruitt]

[DaveInSeattle]

Reading his obit in the NYTimes this morning, it showed that Mondale was an old school pol...meaning he got into politics for the 'right' reasons, and worked hard to actually deliver for his constituents. Quite a contrast to the current generation of media-whores who go into politics to expand their 'brand'.

[Pruitt]

Reading his obit in the NYTimes this morning, it showed that Mondale was an old school pol...meaning he got into politics for the 'right' reasons, and worked hard to actually deliver for his constituents. Quite a contrast to the current generation of media-whores who go into politics to expand their 'brand'.

Minnesota had a good run of Senators for awhile.

[L-Jam3]

Klobuchar seems to be continuing the trend, so long as you don't forget to bring her salad forks.

[DSafetyGuy]

[DaveInSeattle]

That's a great story.

[The Sybian]

Wow, dusty time.

[Giff]

Yeah, big time dust. Wow.

[MaxWebster]

dupe

[MaxWebster]

when he was running in 1984 he came to Buffalo for a speech at the convention center - my dad was a history/govt teacher and thought it was a good idea for me to go see the event so we went downtown really early and somehow got to help put up signs around the place with Mondale's daughter ??

That got us front row seats for the event which was cool enough on its own but Stephen Stills "opened up" for Mondale, singing 3 songs on acoustic.

Maybe it should have been a Mondale/Stills ticket instead.

Anyways, that's a great story right there. Mondale was a good man.

[DaveInSeattle]

when he was running in 1984 he came to Buffalo for a speech at the convention center - my dad was a history/govt teacher and thought it was a good idea for me to go see the event so we went downtown really early and somehow got to help put up signs around the place with Mondale's daughter ??

Definitely had a crush on Eleanor Mondale back then...

*rules

[MaxWebster]

that was definitely her - super friendly and attractive which meant for me as a 14yr old dork i didn't say one word to her :D

[rass]

Check out that rack

[The Sybian]

I was trying to place who she looks like... A little bit Helen Hunt. Then I realized, my neighborhood friend's older sister! Looks exactly like her.

[mister d]

Check out that rack

I hope DiS crops the pic and makes you look like a big perv.

[tennbengal]

She looks like Uma Thurman in that pic.

[brian]

I'll say more Helen Slater but none of us are really not proving the point.

[Reaper]

Maybe I just didn't pay attention to tabloid stuff, but Monica Lewinsky being jealous of Eleanor Mondale (and others) during all of Clinton's affairs while in the White House was a fun read that I knew nothing about until just now. Also didn't realize that Eleanor died almost 10 years before her father.