Favorite leader during the 80's

[genius]

Poll question: Favorite leader during the 80's

- after Carter left office on Jan 20,1981.

[NMDemDist2]

1. that is SUCH a non choice

can't even vote in it

[noahmijo]

2. Howard Stern

:)

[Oddman]

16. Ditto

[Lakerstan]

20. George Michael

He led Wham! :crazy:

[htuttle]

3. Daniel Ortega

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. David Lee Roth

Leader of Van Halen and the Toastmaster General of the Immoral Majority :evilgrin:

[genius]

5. I also forgot about Al Franken, after whom the decade was named

[DODI]

12. Franken vote here.

That was the best.

[newscaster]

6. I kinda liked

Stan Kenton.

[NMDemDist2]

7. Indira Ganhdi eom

[Kolesar]

8. Lech Walensa, Poland

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Gorbechev, absolutely

He was a genuine visionary when the world really needed one. He even managed to tame Reagan to a certain extent.

[OpSomBlood]

10. Dan Marino.

n/t

[genius]

11. Can you believe all the Republicans on this site?

Four votes for Reagan.

[DougieZero]

13. ?

You would rather have Gorbachev as your leader than Reagan?

[genius]

14. Absolutely. Gorbachev saved my life and yours.

[OpSomBlood]

18. Gorbechev was damn near the greatest leader of the century.

At least in the top five.

[troublemaker]

15. Madonna, hands down

[salin]

17. Tip O'Niell!

[jus_the_facts]

22. He was GREAT...I loathe my ignorance o'politics in the 80's.....

....I was completely oblivious and rather annoyed by politics in my ignorance....once I was shown the bigger picture thru the eyes of someone who'd grown up a Democrat...was I enlightened and became involved....David Duke was the first person I voted AGAINST...and BILL CLINTON...was the first person I voted FOR! :thumbsup:

:hi: salin...how's m'favorite Hoosier doin'...hopefully better today!! ;-)

[salin]

23. in better tempremant

cooler heads have indeed prevailed. Thanks ! :hi:

[jus_the_facts]

24. lol...indeed....

...well...for the most part anyway! :D

[jus_the_facts]

19. My leader/idol/god in the 80's was MTV...I was completely obsessed.....

....I've not bought TV since 1990...I'm a fully recovered cable'holic! :evilgrin:

on edit....well I only paid for cable m'self for about 6months....we had cablevision when it first came to our town...then moved out into the sticks and got one of the first home satellite systems...the one where ya gotta go crank it manually to change sets o'channels...then we got one o'those illegal descramblers with remote control....it was when I got out on m'own and HAD TO START PAYIN' for cable that I wised up to cable and their corporate extortion! :evilfrown:

[ACK]

21. Tip O' Neil

Leader of the House.