Being Vice-President “isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss”

By Eideard Friday May 9, 2008

Since the Dems are having this big problem sorting out candidates for Prez and Back-up Prez, this may be an opportune time to examine some of the unremembered who had the #2 spot:

In the words of Vice President John Nance Garner, the vice presidency “isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.”

That may be true, but the characters who’ve held the job are definitely worth a few good pages of trivia. Join mental_floss in toasting seven backup plans that made this country great.

The article highlights a few VP’s less notable [or infamous] than Harry Truman or Richard Nixon.

8 Comments

OhForTheLoveOf says:

5/9/2008 at 9:57 am

WTF IS AARON BURR VS THE SPACE ALIENS????

Please please please let it be a movie I can find on Netflix!
Eideard says:

5/9/2008 at 10:19 am

http://www.37point5.com/film3.htm
McCullough says:

5/9/2008 at 11:40 am

AARON BURR VS THE SPACE ALIENS

This has to have been broadcast by Mystery Science Theatre. Yet I don’t remember it.
raddad says:

5/9/2008 at 12:24 pm

Well, being vice president worked out well for Lyndon Johnson.
John Paradox says:

5/9/2008 at 12:34 pm

This has to have been broadcast by Mystery Science Theatre.

Sorry, the film is 2003, MST3K went off the air in 1999.
However, check out ‘rifftrax’….

J/P=?
OmegaMan says:

5/9/2008 at 12:47 pm

The film people didn’t do their homework…I don’t believe that Burr had access to a six gun…a single shot was only available for that duel.
Hmeyers says:

5/9/2008 at 2:25 pm

Hillary would be the modern-day Aaron Burr equivalent for a vice-presidential choice.
MikeN says:

5/9/2008 at 6:16 pm

Make Obama the veep, maybe then he can learn how many states there are. Let’s see if the liberal media covers his latest statement as much as they covered potato or the Brooklyn Dodgers.