Talk:Dan Quayle

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He also famously had difficulty in spelling the word 'potato' and was jeered by the liberal media for making the reasonable assumption that people in Latin America spoke Latin.

Resonable assumption? A US vice president not knowing what language they speak in Latin America? Czolgolz 08:34, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

Huey, how is this info important? This sounds like gossip to me and is unsourced.

Did a political opponent say, "Quayle is so stupid he can't even spell potatoes"?

And did he state that people in Latin America speak Latin - a serious forthright statement? Or was it just a verbal gaffe, such as many public speakers occasionally make? --Ed Poor 18:46, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

Are you trying to tell me that a verbal gaffe isn't a statement? That doesn't make sense. Here are your cites: [1] and [2]. Not gossip, not unsourced. It stays. --Huey dun gotcha 18:49, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

I remember the potato thing. We was at a school, helping kids with their spelling. His list had a missprint and he convinced a kid to spell potato 'potatoe'. Czolgolz 08:34, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

Quayle never thought it was important to get things right. Apparently, many other "conservatives" also feel that knowing something is snobbish. Latin hasn't been spoken, except in the Vatican, for hundreds of years. Does it make someone an elitist to know this?

Man this dude was an idiot. Mispelling potato is one thing but thinking that Latin Americans spoke latin? And ingadging in a fued with a fictional character. This isn't liberal bias this is just plain old stupidity. Thank god Bush Sr. never died in office or this retard would have ran this country right into a nuclear war. (Ericfuchs123 14:44, 12 July 2007 (EDT))