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Related: About this forumWho are your top five favorite Democrats of all time?
Mine:
1. Harry Truman
2. Howard Dean
3. Barack Obama
4. Robert F. Kennedy
5. Barbara Boxer
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)1. President Obama
2. Alan Grayson
3. Al Franken
4. Barney Frank
5. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Carol Maloney, Sonia Sottomayor, Claire McCaskill, Nancy Pelosi, RFK Jr, .........
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Why limit it to the living? *yawn* - this group needs to perk up!
Also, I wouldn't have figured you for a big Alan Grayson fan.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy
Eleanor Roosevelt
Molly Ivins
Ann Richards
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Andrew Jackson
Harry S. Truman
Ted Kennedy
Paul Wellstone
flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)He ignored the Supreme Court and ordered my Indian ancestors off the land the had lived on for hundreds of years, many dying as a result. This is referred to as "The Trail of Tears" by Native Americans.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Jackson was a man of contradictions, doing things both good and bad. I believe he did more good things but I can certainly see where you would find that incident unforgivable.
Syrinx
(14,804 posts)Sorry, but I just don't know why you would rank even Harry Truman over FDR. Much less Barbara Boxer or Howard Dean.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)...stood by while Hitler seized power and Japan conquered half of Asia!
What does your list look like?
the other one
(1,499 posts)1ProudAtheist
(346 posts)1-Bill Clinton
2-FDR
3-Alan Grayson
4-Thomas Jefferson
5-JFK
morningglory
(2,336 posts)ellisonz
(27,711 posts)...and proclaimed Democratic Socialist and has been so for decades.
RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)Al Lowenstein
Paul O'Dwyer
Eugene McCarthy
Barbara Jordan
Paul Wellstone
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)1. FDR
2. Truman
3. John F. Kennedy
4. Ted Kennedy
5. Obama
emilyg
(22,742 posts)Response to emilyg (Reply #13)
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Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)for today.
All real heroes of the latter half of the 20th century.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)1. FDR
2. Eleanor Roosevelt
3. Truman
4. George McGovern
5. Robert F. Kennedy
On edit, I know we are only supposed to list five, but I have a sixth one, and he is probably the best of all: my Congressman Xavier Becerra.
Here is an example of Xavier Becerra's conference calls with constituents.
http://becerra.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=881:telephone-town-hall-february-29-2012&catid=18:podcasts
and his website:
http://becerra.house.gov/
He is the best.
1. Obama
2. Bill Clinton
3. Hillary Clinton
4. Lynn Woolsey
5. All Democratic voters!
Earth495
(15 posts)Not in any particular order:
-Brian Schweitzer
-Dennis Kucinich
-John Lewis
-Huey Long
-Deval Patrick
Honorable mentions: Patrick Leahy, Jon Tester, LBJ, FDR, Barney Frank, Anthony Weiner, and Jimmy Carter.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Lee Hamilton
Paul Wellstone
Carter
Truman
Rachel Maddow
RedG1
(390 posts)2. William Jefferson Clinton - 42nd POTUS (1993 - 2001)
3. James Earl Carter, Jr, - 39th POTUS (19771981)
4. Harry S Truman - 33rd POTUS (19451953)
5. Barack Obama - 44th POTUS (2009 - 2017)
reborndemocrat19766
(4 posts)my top 5 are follows
1.Harry truman
2.our current president Barack Obama
3,JFK
4.RFK
5.FDR
Junior Samples
(2 posts).
charlespercydemocrat
(46 posts)1. FDR
2. Humphrey
3. John F. Kennedy
4. Jay Rockefeller
5. Al gore
ificandream
(9,387 posts)John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Jimmy Carter
Honorable mention: Jerry Brown
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Franklin Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert F. Kennedy
Paul Wellstone
Elizabeth Warren
ericson00
(2,707 posts)1. Bill and Hillary Clinton
2. JFK
3. Scoop Jackson
4. Steve Kornacki
5. Chuck Schumer
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Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Honorable mention to John Kerry, RFK, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Al Gore.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)JFK
LBJ
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
Barbara Boxer
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)But when Teddy Kennedy passed it felt like I'd lost a close family member. My heart ached for the longest time.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)unless he quick realized a nation of subsistence freehold farmers just wasnt doable, but without him our government would likely have formed on some kind of hierchical European model. The "hamiltonians" wanted an extremely powerful president-for-life and a Senate chosen by electoral college for life, I.e., effectively an aristocracy class. No Bill of Rights, for sure. And, of course, Jefferson was at the head of those who formed the party that after a coupe of name evolutions, including Jeffersonian, Republican, and Democratic-Republican became known as the Democratic Party.
2. James Madison for the same as above, pivotal in the formation of our Consitution, and of course Bill of Rights. He started out a Federalist with Hamilton but joined Jefferson to fight for the nation of, by, and for all men that our soldiers thought they were fighting for, and for their equality in that nation. And, of course, he was also a founder of our party.
3. Francis Perkins, instead of either Roosevelt. I like Eleanor a lot, but Perkins' achievements blew the others out of the water, and FDR's record on European Jews, American Japanese, lynching (vetoed bill making it illegal), etc. is a huge stain.
4. Truman - In his quiet way, he had most of FDR's virtues and few of his faults.
I'm sure virtually all of the true greats aren't coming to mind. Forgotten or, most often never known. But this is a favorites list, so #5 is
5. Lyndon Johnson - Lol, yes, I know. But when he was good he was often great, and he is tremendous fun to read about - one I often felt I was best "knowing" from a distance if I wanted to keep admiring him.
To include Johnson requires a #6.
6. President Obama. History will weigh his many achievements in these difficult times, but I like and admire him a lot.
jrandom421
(1,005 posts)1. Daniel Inouye
2. Barak Obama
3. Bill Clinton
4. Daniel Moynihan
5. Jim McDermott
My father volunteered for Dan Inouye when he first ran for Congress when Hawaii was admitted as a state. When I was old enough to vote, having grown up with stories from the internment camps, I asked Dad (who was a Democrat with a big D) why, considering what Roosevelt did to Japanese-Americans with Executive Order 9066? He replied:
"If Dan Inouye had forgiven the Democrats, after all he'd been through, to run as a Democrat, I suppose I could as well."