Your political heroes

[Soaring Eagle]

Abe Lincoln
FDR
John F. Kennedy
Al Gore
Barack Obama
Dick Durbin

[True Democrat]

John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Wendell Wilkie, Barry Goldwater, LBJ to an extent, Bill Clinton, John Adams, John Quincy Adams

[Deano963]

Thomas Paine

Oooooooh....that's a good one. Good thinking Colin.

[TheresNoMoney]

Russ Feingold

[Inmate Trump]

Rudy Giuliani, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Calvin Coolidge, James Polk

[Governor PiT]

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Teddy Rosevelt
Charles Linburg
Pat Buchanan
Barry Goldwater
Jarod Taylor
Lou Dobbs
Aaron Russo
Alex Jones
Jerome Corsi
Sam Francis
Robert Welch
Ron Paul

[NDN]

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Teddy Roosevelt
Count Camille Cavour
Otto von Bismarck
Grover Cleveland
John Nance Garner
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Howard Baker
James P. Moran
Bill Clinton
Princess Diana of Wales
Howard Dean
Jim Jeffords
Russ Feingold
Ron Paul

And many more. Of course I'd consider a lot of people on this list to be real life anti-heroes.

[Lief 🗽]

Alexander Hamilton
William Jennings Bryan
Bob La Follette
Theodore Roosevelt
Eugene V. Debs
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
Russ Feingold
Howard Dean

[Gabu]

I don't really have any political heroes, given that the character one needs to possess in order to become successful in politics automatically disqualifies pretty well everyone from possessing the qualities needed to be a hero.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Howard Dean, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Mike Huckabee, Tom Tancredo, Nikita Khruschev, Dr. James Dobson.  I think that's everybody.

[Governor PiT]

Dean, Bush, and Tancredo? thats an interesting combo.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Dean, Bush, and Tancredo? thats an interesting combo.

Dean particularly for his personality.  I hate his politics - but I love the enthusiasm.

[opebo]

'Heroes' among american politicians?  They're all just pigs at the trough, serving the masters.  The only one I can think of who consciously made a major sacrifice for what he thought was 'right' was, oddly enough, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

My personal 'heroes'.. no heros exactly, but people I admire.. right now Michel Foucault..

[Tetro Kornbluth]

'Heroes' among american politicians?  They're all just pigs at the trough, serving the masters.  The only one I can think of who consciously made a major sacrifice for what he thought was 'right' was, oddly enough, Lyndon Baines Johnson.

My personal 'heroes'.. no heros exactly, but people I admire.. right now Michel Foucault..

Wow. Opebo has just put himself above the forum. (If you ignore that first paragraph)

As for me, I've already mentioned Butler so I might aswell mention Michael Davitt, Daniel O'Connell and the Burmese protesters.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I admire Paul Wellstone as a fighter for the disadvantaged.

I admire Arne Carlson as being a uniter and a pretty damn good politician, for a (former) Republican.

Otherwise, nobody clearly stands out.

[HappyWarrior]

William Jennings Bryan
Bob La Follette
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
Russ Feingold
Howard Dean
Wesley Clark
Henry A. Wallace
Joe Biden
Bob Kerrey
Al Smith

[MAS117]

Robert F. Kennedy
Patrick Murphy (PA8)
Barack Obama
Mark Warner
Jim Webb

[MarkWarner08]

Teddy Roosevelt (bellicose leader who helped America rise to global primacy)
Henry Wallace (brave man)
Ralph Yarborough (a fighter for the little man)
Harry Truman (The vox populi in the White House. Kudos on his support of Israel, too)
Wayne Morse (Voted against the dubious Gulf of Tonkin Resolution)
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton round out the list.

[Dr. Cynic]

Hubert H. Humphrey - The Father of Modern Liberalisim. His Vietnam position notwithstanding, Humphrey was a class act who cared about people which is more than most politicians can say today.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - Overcame crippling polio and won four terms. Had to combat the Great Depression and the Axis Powers. His ideals are also what many Democrats share today.

Morris K. Udall - Remained funny to the end. Few modern politicians could boast that they could be standup comedians. Udall was also a self-aware, folksy man. "I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from Coservative Arizona, and you can't have a higher handicap than that".

William Jennings Bryan - Although Bryan's religious views aren't near to my heart, his devotion to the working man is. Bryan's life was consumed by his dogged defense of the little guy, and he made the Democrats an alternative to the Republicans, in a time when they basically were mirror images of each other.

Teddy Roosevelt - He made the Presidency a bully pulpit. TR was a swashbuckling, heroic man who suffered occassionally from delusions of grandeur. TR did everything his way, and if nothing else, that makes him great.

Henry Clay - Clay was regarded by most puritans as a dissolute gambler. He loved cards, women, and pleasures. However, he was also devoted to internal improvements, and a skilled party leader. Clay saw his ambitions dashed and dealt with much heartache at the end of his life, and still worked to Compromise until the end.

James K. Polk - No other President, Democrat or Republican, delivered on every campaign pledge they made. Polk made four promises in his campaign and delivered on all of them. The workaholic in me also loves his devotion to long, grinding hours that he put in for the four years of his Presidency.

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Charles Pinckney
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Patrick Henry
John Tyler
Andrew Jackson
Jefferson Davis
George Wallace
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan

[MarkWarner08]

'Heroes' among american politicians?  They're all just pigs at the trough, serving the masters. 

Very original. Cynicism is the enemy of good.

[Dr. Cynic]

'Heroes' among american politicians?  They're all just pigs at the trough, serving the masters. 

Very original. Cynicism is the enemy of good.

No. Cynicisim is just an upleasant way of telling the truth. Do I agree with Opebo here though?... No.

[Boris]

Not the hugest fan of politicians, but I gotta tip my hat to Wayne Morse and Ernest Gruening.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

Here's my list of politicians I admire :

• Thomas Jefferson
• Henry Clay
• William Jennings Bryan
• Robert La Follette
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Wendell Willkie
• Richard Nixon
• Gerald R. Ford
• Nelson Rockefeller
• Olympia Snowe
• Lincoln Chafee
• Mark Warner
• Malcolm Fraser (Australian PM 1975-1983)
• John Gorton (Australian PM 1968-1971)

[Gabu]

'Heroes' among american politicians?  They're all just pigs at the trough, serving the masters. 

Very original. Cynicism is the enemy of good.

No. Cynicisim is just an upleasant way of telling the truth. Do I agree with Opebo here though?... No.

Cynicism is a way of being negative; it just so happens to be that those who are cynical also tend to care about things that contain a lot of negativity, so they turn out to be right more often than not.