Campagin 1968: Spiro Angew on college students

[hadrons]

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I can't figure out what's worse; WHAT he's saying or HOW he's saying it.

[sasquatch]

1. To be fair though the boomers did ignore history which why we're in this mess

[Snotzalot]

2. Typical Republican Verse

Typical republican verse, all they ever want is a dumb society.

[PatSeg]

3. "Law abiding citizens"???

Was he the only VP in history to go to jail?

Thanks for the memories!

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. Dodged the slam by pleading "nolo contendere". nt

[Jack Rabbit]

4. Spiro was good at using $50 words

I believe Pat Buchanan deserves credit for some of his most memorable phrases (including "effete corps of impudent snobs" used in the clip anchoring this thread).

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Not positive, but i believe it was Wm. Saffire. ("effete corps...") nt

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Checked elsewhere

Form Answers.com:

Although this phrase (nattering nabobs of negativism) is often credited to Agnew himself, it was actually written by William Safire, the legendary columnist for The New York Times, who was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. Some of Agnew's other pearls were actually written by Patrick Buchanan, another White House speechwriter at the time.

It looks like we're both right.

I couldn't find an article assigning authorship of effete corps of impudent snobs, but I ran across one crediting Buchanan with silent majority.

[fasttense]

8. Why doesn't he just come out and say "I hate all Americans

who don't agree with me."

That way he (or his speech writers) wont have to look up all those big words.