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Admiral Stockdale was a genuine war hero. He was the senior POW in the Hanoi Hilton as well. He shouldn’t be mocked by conservatives who know nothing of him other than the VP role that he did not want and did not seek and did as a favor to a friend.

"Admiral Stockdale was a genuine war hero. He was the senior POW in the Hanoi Hilton as well. He shouldn’t be mocked by conservatives who know nothing of him other than the VP role that he did not want and did not seek and did as a favor to a friend."

Pelham, you need to take a "lighten-up" pill. I wasn't mocking Stockdale at all. Those two lines I posted are called "direct quotes", and came directly from the mouth of Stockdale at the start of his VP debate, as you can see for yourself right here in this youtube video clip:

"Who am I? Why am I here?"

Notice the big smile on Stockdale's face as he expresses those two questions to start his introduction at that debate, and notice the laughter from the audience when they heard those two questions. He and they all knew that those were two humorous lines with which to start out that debate. He was using two of the deepest, most profound philosophical questions we all ask ourselves at some point in our lives as a humorous tool to begin the process to introduce himself to America.

Heros are just as human as everyone else who ever lived, and it is just plain foolish and bizarre to try to remember heros as some kind of delicate freaks whose memory must be delicately shielded from any kind of good-natured, gentle humor involving them. The late Admiral Stockdale was a strong man, who obviously had a sense of humor, and I'm certain he would not be offended at others seeing the exact same humor he saw when he opened that debate with those two memorable, humor-tinged lines.

(By the way, do you have the same kind of trouble in your reaction to humor involving other heros, like former POW George Washington?)

Stockdale was also a vigorous advocate of abortion.