Who are your top five favorite Democrats of all time?

[ellisonz]

Mine:

1. Harry Truman
2. Howard Dean
3. Barack Obama
4. Robert F. Kennedy
5. Barbara Boxer

[Tx4obama]

1. Oh that is a hard one to pick only five

1. President Obama
2. Alan Grayson
3. Al Franken
4. Barney Frank
5. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Carol Maloney, Sonia Sottomayor, Claire McCaskill, Nancy Pelosi, RFK Jr, .........

[ellisonz]

2. Tweaked it to all time.

Why limit it to the living? *yawn* - this group needs to perk up!

Also, I wouldn't have figured you for a big Alan Grayson fan.

[Tx4obama]

16. I'll leave my 'alive' list above as it is and add a 'dead' list below

John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Teddy Kennedy
Eleanor Roosevelt
Molly Ivins
Ann Richards

[ellisonz]

17. No one else got 6 picks.

[Tx4obama]

18. LOL - I'm special :) n/t

[dem644555il]

20. this

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Toughy, but... 1. FDR, 2. Barack Obama, 3. JFK, 4. RFK, 5. Teddy

[MrSlayer]

4. FDR

Andrew Jackson
Harry S. Truman
Ted Kennedy
Paul Wellstone

[flyingfysh]

7. I'll have to object to Andrew Jackson

He ignored the Supreme Court and ordered my Indian ancestors off the land the had lived on for hundreds of years, many dying as a result. This is referred to as "The Trail of Tears" by Native Americans.

[MrSlayer]

12. That is perfectly understandable.

Jackson was a man of contradictions, doing things both good and bad. I believe he did more good things but I can certainly see where you would find that incident unforgivable.

[Syrinx]

5. How could you not include FDR in your top five?

Sorry, but I just don't know why you would rank even Harry Truman over FDR. Much less Barbara Boxer or Howard Dean.

[ellisonz]

14. The same FDR who...

...stood by while Hitler seized power and Japan conquered half of Asia!

What does your list look like?

[the other one]

6. RFK FDR JFK TRUMAN JEFFERSON

[1ProudAtheist]

8. My Top 5

1-Bill Clinton
2-FDR
3-Alan Grayson
4-Thomas Jefferson
5-JFK

[morningglory]

9. What you said, but also Bernie Sanders and Barney Frank... nt

[ellisonz]

15. Bernie Sanders is a registered independent...

...and proclaimed Democratic Socialist and has been so for decades.

[RevStPatrick]

10. Why the focus on presidents?

Al Lowenstein
Paul O'Dwyer
Eugene McCarthy
Barbara Jordan
Paul Wellstone

[COLGATE4]

11. My choices:

1. FDR
2. Truman
3. John F. Kennedy
4. Ted Kennedy
5. Obama

[emilyg]

13. Truman, Clinton,Sanders,JFK,Dean

[Rowdyboy]

19. Morris Udall, Ann Richards, Eleanor Roosevelt, William O Douglas and Adlai Stevenson...at least

for today.





All real heroes of the latter half of the 20th century.

[JDPriestly]

21. My list includes dead and alive Democrats

1. FDR
2. Eleanor Roosevelt
3. Truman
4. George McGovern
5. Robert F. Kennedy

On edit, I know we are only supposed to list five, but I have a sixth one, and he is probably the best of all: my Congressman Xavier Becerra.

Here is an example of Xavier Becerra's conference calls with constituents.

http://becerra.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=881:telephone-town-hall-february-29-2012&catid=18:podcasts

and his website:

http://becerra.house.gov/

He is the best.

[Kath1]

22. Mine:

1. Obama
2. Bill Clinton
3. Hillary Clinton
4. Lynn Woolsey
5. All Democratic voters!

[Earth495]

23. These are mine

Not in any particular order:

-Brian Schweitzer
-Dennis Kucinich
-John Lewis
-Huey Long
-Deval Patrick

Honorable mentions: Patrick Leahy, Jon Tester, LBJ, FDR, Barney Frank, Anthony Weiner, and Jimmy Carter.

[ellisonz]

24. Welcome to DU!

[MrYikes]

25. mine

Lee Hamilton
Paul Wellstone
Carter
Truman
Rachel Maddow

[RedG1]

26. my five (from a 71 year old retired lifelong Democrat in Connecticut)

1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 32nd POTUS (1933–1945)

2. William Jefferson Clinton - 42nd POTUS (1993 - 2001)

3. James Earl Carter, Jr, - 39th POTUS (1977–1981)

4. Harry S Truman - 33rd POTUS (1945–1953)

5. Barack Obama - 44th POTUS (2009 - 2017)

[reborndemocrat19766]

27. my top 5

my top 5 are follows
1.Harry truman
2.our current president Barack Obama
3,JFK
4.RFK
5.FDR

[Junior Samples]

28. FDR McGovern, LBJ JFK and Gore

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[charlespercydemocrat]

32. bes tof the litter

1. FDR
2. Humphrey
3. John F. Kennedy
4. Jay Rockefeller
5. Al gore

[ificandream]

30. A tough one to answer.

John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Jimmy Carter

Honorable mention: Jerry Brown

[YoungDemCA]

31. In no particular order:

Franklin Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert F. Kennedy
Paul Wellstone
Elizabeth Warren

[ericson00]

33. here they are:

1. Bill and Hillary Clinton
2. JFK
3. Scoop Jackson
4. Steve Kornacki
5. Chuck Schumer

[Still In Wisconsin]

35. Paul Wellstone, Jimmy Carter, Russ Feingold, FDR, Barack Obama

Honorable mention to John Kerry, RFK, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Al Gore.

[DemonGoddess]

36. only five???

JFK
LBJ
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
Barbara Boxer

[Control-Z]

37. I can't really name my top five.

But when Teddy Kennedy passed it felt like I'd lost a close family member. My heart ached for the longest time.

[DemonGoddess]

38. His passing was a great loss :(

[Hortensis]

39. 1. Thomas Jefferson wouldn't get my vote today,

unless he quick realized a nation of subsistence freehold farmers just wasnt doable, but without him our government would likely have formed on some kind of hierchical European model. The "hamiltonians" wanted an extremely powerful president-for-life and a Senate chosen by electoral college for life, I.e., effectively an aristocracy class. No Bill of Rights, for sure. And, of course, Jefferson was at the head of those who formed the party that after a coupe of name evolutions, including Jeffersonian, Republican, and Democratic-Republican became known as the Democratic Party.

2. James Madison for the same as above, pivotal in the formation of our Consitution, and of course Bill of Rights. He started out a Federalist with Hamilton but joined Jefferson to fight for the nation of, by, and for all men that our soldiers thought they were fighting for, and for their equality in that nation. And, of course, he was also a founder of our party.

3. Francis Perkins, instead of either Roosevelt. I like Eleanor a lot, but Perkins' achievements blew the others out of the water, and FDR's record on European Jews, American Japanese, lynching (vetoed bill making it illegal), etc. is a huge stain.

4. Truman - In his quiet way, he had most of FDR's virtues and few of his faults.

I'm sure virtually all of the true greats aren't coming to mind. Forgotten or, most often never known. But this is a favorites list, so #5 is

5. Lyndon Johnson - Lol, yes, I know. But when he was good he was often great, and he is tremendous fun to read about - one I often felt I was best "knowing" from a distance if I wanted to keep admiring him.

To include Johnson requires a #6.

6. President Obama. History will weigh his many achievements in these difficult times, but I like and admire him a lot.

[jrandom421]

40. Here are mine

1. Daniel Inouye
2. Barak Obama
3. Bill Clinton
4. Daniel Moynihan
5. Jim McDermott

My father volunteered for Dan Inouye when he first ran for Congress when Hawaii was admitted as a state. When I was old enough to vote, having grown up with stories from the internment camps, I asked Dad (who was a Democrat with a big D) why, considering what Roosevelt did to Japanese-Americans with Executive Order 9066? He replied:

"If Dan Inouye had forgiven the Democrats, after all he'd been through, to run as a Democrat, I suppose I could as well."