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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:28 PM Original message |
Who are your political idols, and why? |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. Paul Wellstone, hands down. Honest, couragous, forthright, and |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. same |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Yes that was going to be my answer. |
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senseandsensibility (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. Gotta go with Paul |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. Passed On? Paul Wellstone. Living? Barbara Boxer. |
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FreedomAngel82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. Mine are |
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HockeyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. Kerry and Kennedy |
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gator_in_Ontario (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. Alcee Hastings, |
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tnlefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
9. It must be Russ Feingold at the moment 'cause I dreamed about him |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Wow, that's a lot more sane than the only political dream I have had |
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tnlefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. I hope that mine is prophetic, I suppose. Your dream seems much more |
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Idioteque (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
33. I dreamed that my mom divorced my stepdad and married Lincoln Chafee! |
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FreedomAngel82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 11:28 PM Response to Reply #13 |
39. Ooo that sounds good! |
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Nitrogenica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
10. Paul Wellstone. Such energy and passion for politics. |
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CrazyOrangeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. 9 out of 10 ferrets agree . . . |
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ellenfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
25. coleman replaced wellstone? what were you people |
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Nitrogenica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:00 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Remember they smeared Wellstone's funeral, led by Oxycotin |
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ellenfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:04 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. kick the bum out! for all of us . . . eom |
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FreedomAngel82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 11:29 PM Response to Reply #27 |
40. I read about that whole deal in |
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CrazyOrangeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:51 PM Response to Original message |
11. Jimmy Carter and MLK Jr. |
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spuddonna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
14. Wellstone, Carter, Martin Luther King Jr, Kennedy, Kerry |
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radio4progressives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
15. Well, I'm not an Idol Worshipper, but Your Avatar is my hero today |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
16. Howard Dean |
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PVK (390 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:15 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Ditto. Dean. Because he is honest and has integrity. |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:46 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. I agree. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
17. FDR, Lincoln, and... |
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oldlady (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. Fighting Bob LaFollette --father of the Progressive Era |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
21. LBJ |
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
22. Boxer, Mckinney, Feingold, Ron Paul, Stupak, Byrd, Frank, |
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ellenfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
23. hm-m-m, tough one . . . |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
24. Gandhi, Mandela, MLK, Emma Goldman, Rosa Parks. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. self-delete... corrected version below....forgot Lincoln for god's sake. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
30. I like this post, H&E. You mention Boxer & Feingold, & I'll gladly |
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Nikki Stone 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
31. Paul Wellstone,Cynthia McKinney,Paul Krugman (not a politico,but my idol) |
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welshTerrier2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
32. Allard Lowenstein |
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genie_weenie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
34. John Adams, Ben Franklin, George W. Bush |
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ellenfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:39 PM Response to Original message |
35. CORRECTION!!! MY HERO IS JOHN CONYERS. eom |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
36. Wellstone, Feingold, Conyers, Kucinich... |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
37. I'm not that comfortable with the whole idolatry thing. Shrubco makes |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 10:58 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. I don't think its wrong to have political people you admire |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 11:30 PM Response to Original message |
41. None of them. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-17-06 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
42. My political idols are the ones I don't have to keep an eye on. |
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unkachuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-18-06 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
43. you may not agree.... |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-18-06 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
44. I don't think any politician should be idolized or made into a hero |
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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-18-06 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
45. I have no idols. I have no heroes. |
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maine_raptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-18-06 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
46. Lincoln |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-18-06 04:14 AM Response to Original message |
47. my friend Pete Seeger . . . |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-18-06 04:26 AM Response to Original message |
48. Howard Dean |
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DetroitProle (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-18-06 04:43 AM Response to Original message |
49. Bobby Kennedy |
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