"Favorite dead politician?" Topic

The key word is DEAD. So, who is your favorite dead politician?

Lincoln. There could be no other answer.

Trick question. There's no living ones I like.

Mummmm. perhaps Franklin D. Roosevelt or Mahatma Gandhi.

Right with you, Ochoin.

Favorite because we liked him, or favorite because he's dead?

Favorite politician who is deceased, or pushin' up the daisies. You can post them if you'd like to. So long as they have joined the choir invisible or gone to meet their maker.

FDR

Cause you like them. To answer your question more clearly, Bill.

This is bound to end badly. It's like leaving the gate to the toxic waste dump open.

Reagan!

I imagine this will be a fight'n thread.

I'll go for people everyone knows, since nobody cares about some obscure Danish guy.

So FDR and Eugene Debs.

And Eisenhower was one of the coolest people ever to breathe, so we'll make it a threesome.

I'm going to go for Reagan too.

Nixon

Aneurin Bevan, father of the National Health Service.

Otherwise, I've always had a soft spot for Cardinal Richelieu.

Winston Churchill

Goff Whitlam

Palmerston, just the quote on Schleswig-Holstein alone makes him immortal.

Jefferson, Coolidge, Cleveland

Lots and all over the place

Conservative:Vladimir Kokovtsov, Felix Shwarzenberg

Moderate Conservative: Clements von Metternich, Cardinal Richelieu, Pyotr Stolypin, Emmin Ali Pasha

Classical Liberal: William E. Gladstone, Charilaos Trikoupis

National Liberal: Elefterios Venizelos, Nikola Pasic

Social Democrat: José Figueres Ferrer

Socialist: Leo BLum, Ferdinand Lasalle

Radical Socialist:Louis Charles Delescluze

TR and Lincoln

Genghis Kahn. Both a brilliant military leader and a shrewd politician.

All of them.

To paraphrase that old quote:

The only good politician is a dead politician

Winston Churchill

Followed by Lincoln

John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, Tecumseh, John Ross (in an impossible situation,) Grant, Geronimo, Benito Juarez, Reagan, (perhaps, history will judge) Wilma Mankiller.

Respected (deeply) but not "liked" – high level of ambivalence – all that much would be Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Jefferson.

Mexican Jack Squint, good so far, (unless the deleted posts are significant,) so keeping my fingers crossed it stays above the belt.

All of them.

The Gracchi brothers.

Americans

Presidents

Democrats: Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, FDR, Benjamin Harrison

Republicans: Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Eisenhower, Calvin Coolidge

Other: George Washington

Other Politicians: Frederick Douglas, Harold Washington

Bismarck

Theodore Roosevelt. What other politician would undertake an exploration of the Amazon and almost die of malaria as a result. Great Man indeed.

There would actually be a few but I will narrow my list down to Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill,Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan and Golda Meir.

National: Teddy Roosevelt; Texas: Sam Houston.

I like my politicians like I like cats – dead

a bus load of politicians plummeting off a cliff to their deaths is not a tragedy – the empty seat is

Abraham Lincoln for me too!

All of them either I admire them for what they did while alive or hated what they did when alive so glad they are dead.

Winston Churchill- the world will not see his like again.

George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Teddy Roosevelt
and our Founding Fathers who had the intellect and strength of character to create our democracy. James Madison for writing the Bill of Rights.

Teddy & the Lion of the North.

Lincoln
FDR

Tie between Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt.

Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Oh, and Ronald Reagan.

Bismarck

William the Marshal….

Oliver Cromwell

FDR
Lincoln
Washington
TR