Who is your favourite all time politician? I have to say Pierre Trudeau. After that

[applegrove]

Obama, Jean Chretien and the Clintons.

[MrSlayer]

1. Abe Lincoln.

Or does it have to be someone modern?

[blue neen]

2. Bobby Kennedy.

It still brings tears to my eyes.

[11 Bravo]

8. I posted before I read yours. I was a 16 year old HS senior, and his was the first campaign ...

I ever worked for.

[blue neen]

22. You must feel very lucky to have actually worked on his campaign.

I was 12 at the time and paid a lot of attention to politics...mom used to crack up at my imitations of LBJ!

I can remember waking her up that horrible June morning and telling her the news...

Bobby Kennedy. There was just something different about him that no one else has been blessed with.

[northoftheborder]

32. Bobby Kennedy would have been a really great president.

[laundry_queen]

3. I like Pierre too

and Justin seems to take after him as well.

But my favorite was Jack Layton. I can't even explain how I felt when he died. *sob*

[Rageneau]

4. Henry B. Gonzalez

of San Antonio.

[Gman]

15. I actually have to edit my post below to agree 100% with HBG

Then FDR, then Bill

[11 Bravo]

5. I loved RFK.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. Sen Bernie Sanders. He truly supports the middle class.

[riverbendviewgal]

7. I will agree to that.

In that order too.

[Nye Bevan]

9. John Adams and FDR (nt)

[MrScorpio]

10. You should have told me earlier...

Last edited Wed Feb 15, 2012, 11:02 PM - Edit history (1)

I could have given the Almost-Ex-Mrs Trudeau a hug for you.

[applegrove]

11. LOL!

[CanSocDem]

30. I don't think that is Margaret Trudeau....

...if that is what your picture is suggesting. Margot Kidder and her had much in common but not being married to Pierre Trudeau.

Or are you just pulling my leg...???

.

[pinboy3niner]

33. It's a joke (and Damn Sparky!). Trudeau dated Kidder for a time...

Margot Kidder and Pierre Trudeau at the premiere of ‘Louisiana’ in Montreal (August 2, 1984).

http://www.palzoo.net/user/gallery/view/id_10798/name_Margot-Kidder/title_margot-kidder-and-pierre-trudeau/


I got to see Trudeau address a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress once, a long time ago. But I'm pretty sure he was traveling with Magaret on the trip, not Margot.

[MrScorpio]

37. I fixed it

And Yes, that really is me with Lois Lane.

I'm almost in the mood to do another Six Degrees of MrScorpio

[CanSocDem]

43. Forgive me. You really are Super man! (eom)

[karynnj]

12. John Kerry

There are many other Presidents whose positions I agreed with and others who could articulate a world vision that changed my own way of looking at things - especially veteran's rights. There were others who you could be proud of their real genuine sense of honor and integrity. There are very few people who have all of these things.

If I had to pick a second, it would be the far more successful politician, President Obama.

[Gman]

13. In my lifetime, Henry B Gonzales

Then FDR, then Bill Clinton

[Va Lefty]

14. Grew up in Virginia, so Henry Howell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Howell

Also RFK and Howard Dean

[dimbear]

16. Machiavelli.

He understood what he was up against.

[LeftishBrit]

17. Anywhere?

I suppose Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

In the UK, Clem Attlee and Nye Bevan, though both died long ago.

[applegrove]

18. Oh yes. Nelson Mandela too.

[Swede]

19. Tommy Douglas.

He is the man!

[applegrove]

29. Oh yes. Him too.

[laundry_queen]

36. But of course!

who could forget the Greatest Canadian? (ok, I admit, he slipped my mind)

[applegrove]

40. I'll admit I did not know all Tommy Douglas did until he was in the running for the greatest

Canadian. I knew he was a saint. I didn't know why.

[BOHICA12]

20. Pappy O'Daniel

...followed by Walk'n Lawton, and Huey Long

[Posteritatis]

21. I'm in a Trudeau mood. (nt)

[Proud Public Servant]

23. Hubert Humphrey

One of the truly great progressives and a great politician in the best sense of the word.

[Odin2005]

24. MN Governor Floyd Olsen.

[Brickbat]

25. As far as ones I've met and worked with, Paul Wellstone leads the pack, followed by Jim Oberstar.

Humphrey would be right up there, Floyd Olson, and so on...

[grntuscarora]

26. Bernie Sanders.

Way back when, I was a volunteer on his successful mayoral campaign in Burlington, VT. I'm proud of that.

[Gabi Hayes]

27. Cicciolina

e-v-o-o!!

[MarianJack]

28. I have a few.

George McGovern, Bobby Kennedy and my favorite Representative, Bob Edgar.

Bob Edgar served 6 terms in the house in PA's 7th district. He was elected in 1974 and held the seat until he (unfortunately) lost a senate bid to arlen specter in 1986. Aside from the fact that he held the right convictions, he was and is a genuinely good person. I volunteered in his 1974 campaign. In 1976 when he was running for his second term, I saw him at a rally and introduced my mom. He remembered me. He told me to call him "Bob" after I addressed him as congressman. He would have been one hell of a senator.

PEACE!

[polly7]

31. Trudeau, Chretien, Tommy Douglas ... and of course Nelson Mandela. nt.

[Son of Gob]

34. .

[roamer65]

35. Pierre Trudeau.

Good man and Nixon hated him...which makes him EVEN BETTER.

[SidDithers]

38. Yup, I'll go with "Fuddle duddle" too...nt

Sid

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

39. Nelson Mandela and Eugene McCarthy.

[unkachuck]

41. Mikhail Gorbachev

....he tried to reform the Soviet Union and he saved the world from nuclear annihilation by ending forty years of cold-war madness....

[demosincebirth]

42. He's a guy that had a lot of guts, and probalby still does.

[TheKentuckian]

44. Harvey Sloan was one of the first pols to capture my attention.

Claude Pepper was very, very kind when I spent a little time with him doing a little interview for Close Up back in the day and the impression has always stuck, just in a person to person kind of way.

I'm pretty fond of Jon Yarmuth.

Tom Owen is a great local guy.

TDR and FDR are huge influences.

I love Bernie's firey ass.

All kinds of interesting people that lived through, guided, and helped create huge events.

[Blue_Tires]

45. Simon Bolivar and Haile Selassie

(just to mention a couple who haven't been brought up yet)

[RB TexLa]

46. Edwin Edwards

[mylye2222]

47. Lincoln. Kerry. Willy Brandt. Lionel Jospin. François Mitterrand. Christiane Taubira.