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Samof94
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« on: October 23, 2020, 05:53:24 AM »
« edited: October 29, 2020, 06:08:02 AM by Samof94 »

Admiral Stockdale, who was a deaf Vietnam War veteran who was on Perot’s ticket in 1992.
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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2020, 06:08:56 AM »

Admiral Stockdale, who was a deaf Korean War veteran who was on Perot’s ticket in 1992.

Vietnam, not Korea.

Stockdale will be remember for his debate performance and also (at least should be) remembered for Dennis Miller's excellent defense of him in the middle of his comedy act.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-RBYRpydXk&list=PLGzxQLLsdUu7qZuSYXcXZ6UHhU9TJiq_1&index=8

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Now I know (Stockdale's name has) become a buzzword in this culture for doddering old man, but let's look at the record, folks. The guy was the first guy in and the last guy out of Vietnam, a war that many Americans, including our present President, did not want to dirty their hands with. The reason he had to turn his hearing aid on at that debate is because those F*#%ing animals knocked his eardrums out when he wouldn't spill his guts. He teaches philosophy at Stanford University, he's a brilliant, sensitive, courageous man. And yet he committed the one unpardonable sin in our culture: he was bad on television.

Watch the video because he also gets in digs at Quayle and Gore after that.

If going for a Perot veep for being forgettable, it should be Pat Choate, a Reform Party Perot loyalist in 1996.
SNL parodied them too.
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