Walter Mondale dead at 93

[RoryN]

Breaking

 

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he was still alive?

 

[Wrong Element]

he was still alive?

He outlived his wife, his daughter, his vice presidential nominee, the Reagan-Bush ticket, and Hubert Humphrey, who he replaced in the Senate and later served alongside.

But not Jimmy Carter, and not Bob Dole, who he faced off against in the first-ever Veep debate.


True story: the child has always had a pretty sophisticated sense of humor and is very interested in comics, so when she got old enough, Arte gave her some old collections of Bloom County to page through. She reported back that she liked it a lot and it was really funny, but she had just one question: "Who's Walter Mondale?"

 

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BTW, if you want to trace the decline of class in American public life, look up Mondale's concession speech from 1984 and contrast it to the behavior of the loser in the most recent election.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

He outlived his wife, his daughter, his vice presidential nominee, the Reagan-Bush ticket, and Hubert Humphrey, who he replaced in the Senate and later served alongside.

But not Jimmy Carter, and not Bob Dole, who he faced off against in the first-ever Veep debate.


True story: the child has always had a pretty sophisticated sense of humor and is very interested in comics, so when she got old enough, Arte gave her some old collections of Bloom County to page through. She reported back that she liked it a lot and it was really funny, but she had just one question: "Who's Walter Mondale?"

Bloom County was one of my fave strips coming up, even if some of the political satire and jabbing was just a bit over my tween-to-teen head back in the '80s. Doonesbury was pretty straight-edged about it, but BC was wild in that weird way. The subversiveness I got, though.

yeah, Mondale was a big deal then. Shit. So much of the Old World that used to be a big deal in the days of VCRs with wired remote controls and subscription television is gone now that I didn't think he was still living this deep past the millennium, either.

 

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WTF? I thought he died years ago!

 

[LukSkyFokker]

He outlived his wife, his daughter, his vice presidential nominee, the Reagan-Bush ticket, and Hubert Humphrey, who he replaced in the Senate and later served alongside.

But not Jimmy Carter, and not Bob Dole, who he faced off against in the first-ever Veep debate.


True story: the child has always had a pretty sophisticated sense of humor and is very interested in comics, so when she got old enough, Arte gave her some old collections of Bloom County to page through. She reported back that she liked it a lot and it was really funny, but she had just one question: "Who's Walter Mondale?"

BTW, if you want to trace the decline of class in American public life, look up Mondale's concession speech from 1984 and contrast it to the behavior of the loser in the most recent election.

That's some good stuff.

 

[RoryN]

True story: the child has always had a pretty sophisticated sense of humor and is very interested in comics, so when she got old enough, Arte gave her some old collections of Bloom County to page through. She reported back that she liked it a lot and it was really funny, but she had just one question: "Who's Walter Mondale?"

Berkeley Breathed would probably get a kick out of this story.