Who are your Democratic heroes? FDR? Barbara Jordan? Carter? Etc

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

I am very curious to know. All your heroes of the Democratic party, past and present....

[berner59]

1. Carter...Clinton...

FDR will go down as the greatest but those 2 are my current... I met Carter once and he was amazing...

[SaveElmer]

4. Hubert Humphrey

Would have been a great President

FDR
Truman

[movonne]

2. Well, I like Carter, Big Dog, Kennedy....

[bluestateguy]

3. Franklin Pierce

Now there is a president who doesn't get the credit due to him :).

[El Supremo]

14. My Great Great Grandfather was named for him. n/t

[Birthday]

5. Carter

He is a humble, intelligent and honorable man. He practices his faith in a way that benefits the world. He really seeks to be a peacemaker. He has used his position as former president for good, not for personal gain. I admire his humility. It is so rare anywhere - but especially in public life.

[DrZeeLit]

6. Robert Kennedy

My first campaign, '68 Kennedy, San Diego, CA.

Later I worked for The City Club of San Diego as an administrative assistant, so I got to meet a lot of the top speakers in both parties. I learned who was class and who was not.
Joe Biden is a class act.
Bill Bradly, too (where is he??)

As far as women -- Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and Bella Abzug, as well as Gloria Steinem.

Peace.

[IChing]

7. Bobby Kennedy

read his books, follow his legend
My mother cried for three days
and took me to his grave when we lived
in DC at that time.

[GainesT1958]

8. All of the above, plus:

JFK (the FIRST!); Hubert Humphrey, Ed Muskie; Sam Ervin (Watergate); Terry Sanford (the late former N.C. governor and senator); Ron Brown (for re-uniting the Party in 1989-1992); Adlai Stevenson (for telling the American people the truth in the times and climate when it was not easy to do so), Richardson Preyer (former N.C. congressman and progressive leader of his generation); Max Cleland, and Wes Clark...for having courage under fire, period!

:kick:

B-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. Definately JFK....

I still have a really hard time thinking about his death. And I really can't see little John saluting his casket.
Duckie

[LibDemAlways]

9. Robert F. Kennedy

eom.

[nini]

10. Shirley Chisholm

I was fairly young but I remember her run for president and was very moved by her story, guts and outlook




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During her first term in Congress, Chisholm hired an all-female staff and spoke out for civil rights, women's rights, the poor and against the Vietnam War. In 1970, she was elected to a second term. She was a sought-after public speaker and cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW). She remarked that, "Women in this country must become revolutionaries. We must refuse to accept the old, the traditional roles and stereotypes."

On January 25, 1972, Chisholm announced her candidacy for president. She stood before the cameras and in the beginning of her speech she said,

"I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I am equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or special interests. I am the candidate of the people."

http://afgen.com/chisholm.html

[Rowdyboy]

11. My hero is Morris "Mo" Udall, longtime Democratic rep from Arizona

(ran for president in 1976-finished second to Jimmy Carter). He was my hero.

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/MorrisUdall.htm

http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/udall/homepage.html

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/morris_k._udall/

[Eugene]

12. Jimmy Carter, FDR

Also Tip O'Neill, JFK, LBJ, Barney Frank, Mario Cuomo.

Finally Bill Clinton for giving the Repugs fits.

:kick:

[El Supremo]

15. You left out Sam Rayburn and J. Wm. Fullbright and Tip O'Neal and Woodrow

Wilson and many many more.