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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:48 AM Original message |
Name a great complex individual in American history |
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Sock Puppet (624 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. W.E.B. Du Bois comes to mind |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. A couple that pop up in my head |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
16. Saw a video clip of LBJ basically twisting George Wallace in a knot. |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
3. William Tecumseh Sherman and Napoleon Bonaparte |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
4. Andrew Jackson |
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Jeff In Milwaukee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
5. Nixon |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
6. Admiral Halsey |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. The guy in that old Wings song "Hands Across the Water"? |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 12:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Nope, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey was real |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 05:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
34. The only admiral dumb enough to let aircraft carriers get within range of enemy battleships |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
8. Gen. John C. Fremont |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
9. Macarthur. Mark Twain. Henry David Thoreau. Hemingway. Feynman. Nixon. |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
10. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the atomic bomb dude. |
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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
11. Henry Ford |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 01:46 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. That's two strikes against him :) |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
12. Who else? |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
13. Just watched Fog of War last night, so I'll say Robert McNamara. |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:47 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Oooh yeah, McNamara's a good one. |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
15. John Adams |
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NoGOPZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
17. Barry Goldwater |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
19. John Foster Dulles |
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LeftinOH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
20. John Brown: The most misguided psychopathic murderer in US history... |
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Reverend_Smitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. That was the first name that popped into my head when I saw this thread |
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skygazer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
21. U.S. Grant |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
22. Lyndon Johnson. |
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regularguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
23. Paul Robeson |
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Reverend_Smitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 01:04 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. He grew up and lived in my area and yet 9 out of 10 people on the street wouldn't know who he was... |
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MAGICBULLET (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
25. Harriet Tubman |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
28. Mike Malloy |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
29. Lyndon Baines Johnson |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
30. Woodrow Wilson |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
31. Huey Long |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
32. William Jennings Bryan. An anti-science creationist of the kind we're battling today. |
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nuxvomica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 06:34 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. I thought of him, too |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
33. Lucy Parsons |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
35. James Monroe |
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GOPisEvil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
36. Andrew Carnegie? |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
38. Bill Clinton. |
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Catsbrains (352 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 10:37 PM Response to Original message |
39. Abraham Lincoln. |
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barb162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-22-08 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
40. Alexander Hamilton |
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