Great Pop Culture References in History

“On Novem­ber 4th, we must stand up and say, ‘Eight is Enough.’”

Bar­rack Obama, decid­ing that his his­toric accep­tance speech as the first African Amer­i­can pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee for a major Amer­i­can party needed a ref­er­ence to a thirty-​year-​old Dick Van Patten sitcom. I would have gone with some­thing a teensy bit more cur­rent like, “…we must stand up and teach the Repub­li­cans the ‘Facts of Life.’”

August 29th, 2008 · Category: Politics, TV · Tags: , , · 1 Comment »