Who is your favorite Democrat (past or present)?

[elperromagico]

I'm going with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. :)


Hey Dubya! This is what a leader looks like!

Who's your favorite Democrat of all time?

[Roaming]

1. Definitely Harry Truman!

Humble, great leader, fought for the working man.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. Kucinich

but i have the hugest crush on bill clinton and i lOVE FDR

[quisp]

3. Thomas Jefferson

[starroute]

7. Another Jefferson vote here

The man was just awesome.

[DarkPhenyx]

4. Me!

As I am a Democrat and definately my favorite person of all time. :)

[kmla]

5. JFK - President during the last time America could still say

it held innocence and optimism. Since his assassination, it's been a downhill spiral into cynicism and cronyism.

But that's just how I see it...

[Gman]

6. FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton and James Carville

[CrownPrinceBandar]

8. Jimmy Carter.............

People thought Clinton was raked over the coals, it was nothing compared to what they did (and still doing) to this guy!

[XNASA]

9. Gotta go with my homie, Adlai Stevenson

The Republican Party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

A hungry man is not a free man.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men’s souls.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

[mobuto]

10. Diodotus of Athens

n/t

[murielm99]

11. Harry Truman came to mind first.

FDR, Jefferson, and BILL CLINTON!!!

We have Stevenson and JFK....we have all the good guys.

[murielm99]

12. Bobby Kennedy, too.

He should be on the list.

[rainy]

13. Paul Wellstone of course,

They killed him you know, to control the senate. Then they smeared Max. Dreadful.

[SmileyBoy]

14. Paul Wellstone.

RIP.

[mikey_1962]

15. JFK..... No comparison .................. #2 Bobby #3 Truman

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. FDR and RFK in a tie

With JFK third. No solid basis for that, just gut feeling.

[soleft]

17. Mario Cuomo

ducking

[Triple H]

18. Me...and then Paul Wellstone.

[VelmaD]

19. Barbara Jordan

"My faith in the Constituiton is whole, it is complete, it is total and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."

-Testimony before the Houste Judiciary Committee, July 25, 1974.

"A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny."

-Keynote address, Democratic National Convention, July 12, 1976

"Justice of right is always to take precedence over might."

-April 1985.

"What the people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise."

-Harvard University Commencement Address, June 16, 1977

"It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."

-Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, July 25, 1974.

"How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community."

-Article entitled "All together Now" from Sesame Street Parents, July/August, 1994.

"If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority."

-May, 1990.

"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."

-Article entitled "All Together Now" from Sesame Street Parents, July/August, 1994

"I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance."

-Article in On Campus, February 14, 1994

"This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, brain power, and kinetic energy."

-Keynote Address, Democratic National Convention, July 12, 1976

"American's mission was and still is to take diversity and mold it into a cohesive and coherent whole that would espouse virtues and vlaues essential to the maintenance of civil order. There is nothing easy about that mission. But it is not mission impossible."

-October, 1993

"Fairness is an across-the-board requirement for all our interactions with each other ...Fairness treats everbody the same."

-December 15, 1993.

"The imperative is to define what is right and do it."

-April, 1985.

"The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual."

-May, 1990.

[bmbmd]

20. Will Rogers

"I don't belong to any organized party-I'm a Democrat."