Today, it was reported that Senator Elizabeth Warren will attend
the first annual award show celebrating the table tent and will clarify her position on her candidacy for the 2016 Presidential race there as well as at another event in Atlanta commemorating a newly planned version of an American main battle tank projected to replace the M1A2 Abrams and honoring Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman.
In other 04/01/2015 news this morning, word spread around Atlanta like a prairie fire about anticipating that Warren will finally utter a precise Shermaneque speech: "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve." Until now she has claimed that she is not and will not be running, but never uttered the Shermanesque performative speech act.
Upon hearing of the possibility of that very moment and as if in solidarity, carpetbagging Illinois cows all over Atlanta kicked over kerosene lamps and seemingly mooed out as one.
"Sherman(esque) statement" or "Sherman speech" is American political jargon for a clear and direct statement by a potential candidate indicating that he or she will not run for a particular elected position.
The term derives from the Sherman pledge, a remark made by American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman when he was being considered as a possible Republican candidate for the presidential election of 1884. He declined, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." Thirteen years prior, he had similarly asserted, "I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve." These statements are often abbreviated as "If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve.
After ordering almost all civilians to leave the city in September 1864, Sherman gave instructions that all military and government buildings in Atlanta be burned, although many private homes and shops were burned as well. This was to set a precedent for future behavior by his armies.
A Minneapolis-based agency pulled off an epic April Fools' prank about an award ceremony for table tent advertising