Best Line-Up Since The Revolution

Well, maybe thats an exageration, but maybe not...

I'm Dean fanatic, all the way, but I've adjusted to the fact that Kerry won and am moving on, and as I look over some of the Dem talent that we have in this generation, I'm just floored.

Kerry, Dean, Clark, Kucinich, the Clintons, Gore, Kennedy, Edwards, Byrd...

I know I'm leaving too many names out (had to go back and add Kucinich -what the hell was I thinking!), but just look at the times in which we live! Look at the team we have!

Perhaps it's because of these difficult times that we are able to field such a team, just as the American Revolutionary era brought out Jefferson, Washington, Addams, Franklin, etc, etc...

I have often wished I had lived in the late 1700's, just to have the chance to see so many great minds assembled together. Perhaps I'm being overly optimistic, but I think that if we emerge victorious against the neocons, then history will look back at the men and women that guide us with a similar awe as we currently see our founders.

So - am I just being sappy? What's you vote for the best lineup of talent in American history (obviously- aside from the founders)?

[The Traveler]

1. Weird ... but I do not disagree

Man, the democratic party has shown the lion's paw this primary season. Tho I was (and am) a Clarkista I notice you left out Kucinich, one of the most brilliant and creative thinkers of the lot.

What is really cool is none of these guys are out of the game just because they lost. They are still in there fighting in their own way. So .. yeah ... great lineup. Lock Dean, Kucinich, Clark, Biden, Byrd and Sharpton in a hotel room for three weeks and see what kind of platform they come up with. I bet it would be a grand, and realizable, vision for the American future.

[RoyGBiv]

3. Great Minds

Kucinich, one of the most brilliant and creative thinkers of the lot.

Glad you mentioned that.

I was going to say that on the scale of great minds including such notables as Jefferson, et al, Kucinich could not be ignored. He was not my choice in the primary, largely because I tend to base my vote on a combination of the candidates' ideological perspective and the practical possibilities of acceptance among the electorate, but of all the candidates, he's the one I most admire for wisdom and vision.

[The Traveler]

5. Oops ... he didn't leave out Kucinich

That's what I get for skimming DU.

My dream ticket was Clark/Kucinich. I really think those two could have done some amazing things together.

7. Yes I did, at first

but put him in on edit. My mistake. :p

4. DK, where's my brain?

thanks for the reminder, edited the list, which will I will now leave as purposefully incomplete....

[no name no slogan]

8. A VERY good lineup

I'd be tempted to say an embarrassment of riches, really! :D

Lock Dean, Kucinich, Clark, Biden, Byrd and Sharpton in a hotel room for three weeks and see what kind of platform they come up with.


....and, as somebody who's shepherding his health care resolution to my state party's convention, I would be remiss to add all of us "common folk" who are trying to come up with a platform that works for ALL of us!

:toast:

[AntiCoup2K4]

9. Not Biden, for God's sake!

He's been a sellout to the rightwing even before the Coup. And Sharpton's ties to the Brooks Brothers riots instigators disqualifies him. But Dean, Kucinich, Byrd and Clark writing the platform works for me :D

[DeepModem Mom]

2. You're right, demwing -- and thanks for a bright note,

at a difficult time.

[DemBones DemBones]

6. I second that! In today's world, we need all the bright notes

we can get.

[zoeyfong]

10. Get off the drugs, man; the good ones should be the *majority,* not just

a handful; besides, some of us think that Kerry's, Edwards', and the Clintons' support of the most disasterous war since Vietnam seriously tarnishes their records.

[AgadorSparticus]

11. someone's always gotta poo poo something....what a shame.

otherwise, a lovely thread to read. i agree about having a great lineup. it gives us some hope during a precarious point in american history.

12. If only!

But I have no drugs of which to get off :)

Seriously, I don't mind you disagreeing with me, Im a Dem, and I don't run in lockstep either.

If I needed everyone to agree with me at all times I would become a Republican, and adopt the group mindset. Then I wouldn't have to think anymore, and my peers and I would always agree in the blissfull harmony of a collective stupidity.

Being a Dem is harder, what with all this independent thought we have to deal with, but what the hell can I say? I like the perks!