re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Really, he may not have any chance of winning, but he should not be ignored or minimized.

Agreed. For all of the acreage that the media gives every last hopeless shitbird who’s thrown his or her hat into the ring on the Republican side, stinting Bernie is bullshit.

This is a far cry from when Perot raised his grizzled head. I thought that he was a crank from the beginning. The media chose to give him a great ride.

His running mate, VIce Admiral James Stockdale, earned a permanent place in my esteem with his words, “Who am I? Why am I here?” at the opening of the vice presidential debate.

About Admiral Stockdale, courtesy of Wikipedia:

Flying from USS Oriskany on a mission over North Vietnam on September 9, 1965, Stockdale ejected from his Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, which had been struck by enemy fire and completely disabled. He parachuted into a small village, where he was severely beaten and taken prisoner.

Stockdale was held as a prisoner of war in the Hoa Lo prison (popularly known as the Hanoi Hilton) for the next seven and a half years. As the senior Naval officer, he was one of the primary organizers of prisoner resistance. Tortured routinely and denied medical attention for the severely damaged leg he suffered during capture, Stockdale created and enforced a code of conduct for all prisoners which governed torture, secret communications, and behavior. In the summer of 1969, he was locked in leg irons in a bath stall and routinely tortured and beaten. When told by his captors that he was to be paraded in public, Stockdale slit his scalp with a razor to purposely disfigure himself so that his captors could not use him as propaganda. When they covered his head with a hat, he beat himself with a stool until his face was swollen beyond recognition. When Stockdale was discovered with information that could implicate his friends’ “black activities”, he slit his wrists so they could not torture him into confession.

Interesting.