[poconopundit]

Great, let's keep this Stacey Abrams thread alive till the next time we kick her fat a$$ in an election!

OK, VK.  You outed yourself as a disciple of the negative vote.  Good, it's because you think like Ben Franklin who said at the Constitutional Convention:

"You've got a Republic, as long you can keep it!" 

Or at least that was the version spoken by Eli Wallach in that short 15-minute film shown at Philadelphia Independence Hall twenty years ago where he played the part of old Ben.

This was before digital media and the film had been shown so many times per day that the visual quality of the film had faded making Eli look as ugly as he did in his role in the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly :- )

A footnote from Wikipedia:

Wallach graduated in 1936 from the University of Texas with a degree in history.  In a later interview, Wallach said that he learned to ride horses while in Texas, adding that he liked Texas because "it opened my eyes to the word friendship."  He explained, "You could rely on people. If they gave you their word, that was it ... It was an education."

Wallach's was drafted into the U.S. Army in January 1941.  He served as staff sergeant in a military hospital in Hawaii and later sent to Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Abilene, Texas to train as a medical administrative officer.

Commissioned a second lieutenant, he was ordered to Casablanca.  Later, when he was serving in France, a senior officer noticed his acting career and asked him to create a show for the patients.

He and his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This Is the Army.  In the comedy, Wallach and the other actors mocked Axis dictators, with Wallach portraying Adolf Hitler.

What a patriot and a helluva guy!  God bless Texas.

[V K Lee]

Wallach! Your comments warranted a look/see on IMBD. To my HORROR, found it stated he was a life long d’Rat. A fact never known. Of course, this was long before d’Rats became radical Socialists; they were just out of step Socialists.

LOL while studying at the University of Texas he took care of the team’s polo ponies (learned to ride). It was there he also formed a friendship with Texas Governor John Connally and Walter Cronkite.

Please forgive leaving your path: Eli is a far more interesting character to discuss rather than Stacey, the sore loser.

[V K Lee]

A thought on voting, positive/negative.

A citizen’s dream would be seen were we given the choice between two candidates, one better than the other. Imagine living in a world where choices were difficult. BOTH candidates could be trusted (no matter which party). Neither would be thinking of lining their pockets at the expense of the electorate. Neither would be planning of how to enact tyranny, for they love USA as much as we. If only men of character could be seen in our elections, WOW, that would be a brilliant concept. Give us hard choices, give us two candidates which will make decisions difficult. Step outside the box and show us someone more in love with country than himself. Every voting American deserves to see this scenario once in his lifetime.