Ten Things This Tuesday
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
"It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything." - Rene Coty
Long time no see, I know. Got a whole bunch of nothing here. Just got through watching the second of the three presidential debates. So here is...
Ten facts I've been wondering about presidents:
1. McCain is not the oldest presidential candidate. Dole was the oldest.
2. McCain will not be the oldest president. Reagan was in his second term. McCain will be the first newly inaugurated lackey.
3. Obama's not the first African-American presidential candidate. Before Al Sharpton in 2004, Douglas Wilder in 1992, Jesse Jackson in 1988 and 1984, Miss Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman (yup, Hilary didn't do anything historical, either) who seriously ran for president. I knew that. Did you?
4. How many political parties have existed in the United States? Too many to count here. Just go to this site for the answer.
5. Clinton--him, not her--should have tried to run for president. Grover Cleveland did. And won.
6. "Teddy" bears were so named not because Theodore Roosevelt looked like one. He was given one.
7. Calvin Coolidge, a man who did not have loose lips, did not use the telephone while in office.
8. Hoover donated his salary to charity. Let's ask if either one of them would.
9. Gerald Ford once worked as a fashion model. I could see that. You could too if you click this.
10. No, you don't have to be a lawyer to be a president. Harding was a newspaper publisher, Andrew Johnson was taught reading, writing, and 'rithmatic by his wife and Carter studied nuclear physics.
Long time no see, I know. Got a whole bunch of nothing here. Just got through watching the second of the three presidential debates. So here is...
Ten facts I've been wondering about presidents:
1. McCain is not the oldest presidential candidate. Dole was the oldest.
2. McCain will not be the oldest president. Reagan was in his second term. McCain will be the first newly inaugurated lackey.
3. Obama's not the first African-American presidential candidate. Before Al Sharpton in 2004, Douglas Wilder in 1992, Jesse Jackson in 1988 and 1984, Miss Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman (yup, Hilary didn't do anything historical, either) who seriously ran for president. I knew that. Did you?
4. How many political parties have existed in the United States? Too many to count here. Just go to this site for the answer.
5. Clinton--him, not her--should have tried to run for president. Grover Cleveland did. And won.
6. "Teddy" bears were so named not because Theodore Roosevelt looked like one. He was given one.
7. Calvin Coolidge, a man who did not have loose lips, did not use the telephone while in office.
8. Hoover donated his salary to charity. Let's ask if either one of them would.
9. Gerald Ford once worked as a fashion model. I could see that. You could too if you click this.
10. No, you don't have to be a lawyer to be a president. Harding was a newspaper publisher, Andrew Johnson was taught reading, writing, and 'rithmatic by his wife and Carter studied nuclear physics.
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