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Sun Oct-22-06 01:54 PM
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| 38. RFK must always top my list. The conversion he went through after JFK's |
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assassination was remarkable, and he became not only a true leader, but a very rare leader who really listens to people from a soft heart.
As I understand it, he was so distraught after his brother's death, that today he would be drowned in happy pills. He worked through the grief process so honestly and completely that he came out of it with a real empathy for others.
Hence, his committment to poor folk. He was LEADING this country in real values, rather than following polls.
What a country we would have now if he had lived!!
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| -Please Add Your Liberal Heroes to this List |
stepnw1f |
Oct-22-06 11:07 AM |
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This year |
demnan |
Oct-22-06 11:08 AM |
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FDR |
mikeargo |
Oct-22-06 11:09 AM |
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Paul & Sheila Wellstone. George McGovern |
MnFats |
Oct-22-06 11:09 AM |
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Al Smith |
LeighAnn |
Oct-22-06 11:11 AM |
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Great One |
stepnw1f |
Oct-22-06 11:14 AM |
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And in the same vein: Ida B. Wells |
DesertedRose |
Oct-22-06 11:43 AM |
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Ronnie Earle and Marcus Stern |
ck4829 |
Oct-22-06 11:15 AM |
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Mike Malloy |
SalmonChantedEvening |
Oct-22-06 11:18 AM |
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Ann Richards |
catabryna |
Oct-22-06 11:26 AM |
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James Madison, Ben Franklin, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt |
rosesaylavee |
Oct-22-06 11:26 AM |
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hell yeah.... Ted Kennedy Should Be in There Too (nt) |
stepnw1f |
Oct-22-06 11:27 AM |
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Probably JFK too |
rosesaylavee |
Oct-22-06 11:30 AM |
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Wellstone, Bernie Sanders, Rep, Barbara Lee.... |
Armstead |
Oct-22-06 11:28 AM |
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Great liberals in the media |
rosesaylavee |
Oct-22-06 11:30 AM |
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John L. Lewis n/t |
bluedogyellowdog |
Oct-22-06 11:32 AM |
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Nelson Mandela, Jefferson, Henry, MLK |
stop the bleeding |
Oct-22-06 11:32 AM |
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FDR, Ted Kennedy since the 80s, Leahy's work on Judicial Cmmttee, |
1932 |
Oct-22-06 11:34 AM |
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Jesus was a Jewish Liberal. n/t |
IanDB1 |
Oct-22-06 11:37 AM |
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yes....! (nt) |
stepnw1f |
Oct-22-06 12:01 PM |
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Pete Seeger . . . n/t |
OneBlueSky |
Oct-22-06 11:43 AM |
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Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewert, Stephen Colbert, and Helen Thomas |
helderheid |
Oct-22-06 11:44 AM |
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Margaret Sanger |
agates |
Oct-22-06 11:49 AM |
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Emma Goldman, Gandhi,, Tolstoy, Kropotkin, Rosa Luxembourg, |
Tierra_y_Libertad |
Oct-22-06 12:03 PM |
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Thanks for recognizing Mikhail Gorbachev |
sarge43 |
Oct-22-06 12:28 PM |
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I agree |
LeftishBrit |
Oct-22-06 12:31 PM |
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I'm glad somebody else recognizes his achievements. |
Tierra_y_Libertad |
Oct-22-06 12:33 PM |
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i have always said that he deserves a blessed place in history for simply. |
MnFats |
Oct-22-06 02:08 PM |
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Gorbachev... really really good post! |
stepnw1f |
Oct-22-06 03:12 PM |
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Barbara Jordan |
sarge43 |
Oct-22-06 12:09 PM |
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JFK, RFK, EMK, Bill Clinton, Keith O., Ben Franklin, T. Jefferson n/t |
Clinton Crusader |
Oct-22-06 12:14 PM |
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Abagail Adams, Sojourner Truth, Benjamin Franklin, Huey P. Long, |
greyhound1966 |
Oct-22-06 12:15 PM |
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In the strict sense of 'member of a Liberal party".. |
LeftishBrit |
Oct-22-06 12:20 PM |
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RFK Jr., John Conyers, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan |
TheGoldenRule |
Oct-22-06 12:27 PM |
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Orwell, Marx, JFK, |
MATTMAN |
Oct-22-06 12:43 PM |
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Eugene Debs, "The Rebel Girl", Helen Keller, Mother Jones... |
bperci108 |
Oct-22-06 12:59 PM |
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Me Likey Your Listy! |
PassingFair |
Oct-22-06 04:41 PM |
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Yep, great list |
seasonedblue |
Oct-22-06 05:10 PM |
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Paul Wellstone |
Fox Mulder |
Oct-22-06 01:02 PM |
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Frank Zappa |
90-percent |
Oct-22-06 01:11 PM |
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Ya beat me to it... NT |
XOKCowboy |
Oct-22-06 03:31 PM |
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. |
stepnw1f |
Oct-22-06 01:10 PM |
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All of the above. |
applegrove |
Oct-22-06 01:46 PM |
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RFK must always top my list. The conversion he went through after JFK's |
bobbolink |
Oct-22-06 01:54 PM |
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Now I will add Dorothy Day. |
bobbolink |
Oct-22-06 01:55 PM |
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No Lyndon Johnson, William Jennings Bryan or Thadeus Stevens? |
happyslug |
Oct-22-06 02:27 PM |
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Edwin Markham and John Stuart Mill |
LouisianaLiberal |
Oct-22-06 02:51 PM |
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George Washington a liberal????? |
happyslug |
Oct-22-06 03:32 PM |
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I heard he has slave's teeth in his dentures |
leftchick |
Oct-22-06 03:39 PM |
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Yes He Was for His Time Especially |
stepnw1f |
Oct-22-06 04:54 PM |
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Yes, in the 1790s when it appeared the US would abolish. |
happyslug |
Oct-22-06 11:11 PM |
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From what I have read he had several different types of false teeth |
happyslug |
Oct-22-06 10:49 PM |
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Yeah... believe it or not... |
stepnw1f |
Oct-22-06 04:56 PM |
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I. F. Stone |
NoPasaran |
Oct-22-06 04:47 PM |
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John O'Niel |
goforit |
Oct-22-06 04:55 PM |
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Dennis Kucinich, Molly Ivins, Mahtma Ghandi, Amy Goodman... |
Earth_First |
Oct-22-06 04:57 PM |
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Jim Hightower |
XOKCowboy |
Oct-22-06 05:13 PM |
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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan n/t |
Dick Diver |
Oct-22-06 05:44 PM |
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Tommy Douglas |
enigmatic |
Oct-22-06 10:57 PM |
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I can't believe no one has mentioned Mario Cuomo yet. |
Aristus |
Oct-22-06 11:00 PM |
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John Lennon |
WillyT |
Oct-22-06 11:02 PM |
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Ceasrar Chavez and Bobby Kennedy |
WillyT |
Oct-22-06 11:05 PM |
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