Why is the VP choice not important?

[70SATMan]

Originally Posted by legion

Hillary doesn't want to say that he would pick Obama.

That is funny. HEHE!

[cashflyer]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

I think it was warm spit....

It took the invention of television for politicians to realize that the Vice-Presidency was worth a great deal more than what John Nance Garner, the first of F.D.R.’s three No. 2s, is famously said to have compared it to, “a bucket of warm spit.” (Famously but incorrectly: Garner said a bucket of warm piss, which, though unquotable in the family newspapers of his day, makes more sense from the heat-retention angle.) The Vice-Presidency is a much, much better job than it was in the old days. Back then, you drowsed through endless sessions of the Senate, lived in a flyspecked boarding house on a muddy street, and nursed your resentments. Now you get a mansion, a staff, and a plane worthy of a Saudi arms merchant. And, if you like undisclosed locations, no longer have detectable Presidential ambitions of your own, and serve a callow President so in thrall to you that when you headed his Vice-Presidential search committee you felt free to find yourself, you can end up achieving total world domination.

http://tinyurl.com/29q8bj

[Rick Lee]

Ah ok. I stand corrected. I long for those old days of plain talk.

[WI wide body]

Originally Posted by cashflyer

Not my words.
The quote was by John Garner, vice president to Franklin Roosevelt, who described the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss."

I know things have changed since the 30's, possibly evidenced best, as you mention, by Dick.

Yeah, I realized that you were paraphrasing someone...I couldn't recall that it was Garner right at that time. Actually his quote made a book (The 2548 Best Things Ever Said) of quotes I have and they listed it as:

"The vice-presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit."