Recently deceased people you wish were still alive to see today?

[HEyHEY]

Barack's Grandmother, George Carlin, Pierre Trudeau...


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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Paul Newman n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King are two that come to my mind. nt

[Barack_America]

6. Definitely Rosa, especially with that bus in the parade.

[Barack_America]

3. My grandma.

She was a Democrat to the core and would have loved this.

[lpbk2713]

4. Yeah, Carlin.

Studs Terkel too.

[BOSSHOG]

5. My wonderful father in law

who earned a purple heart in WWII who had a deep abiding disdain for republicans (to put it mildly.)

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. Sounds like a wonderful man

My grandfather was the same way. He got married in 1933, the same year FDR took office. Grandpa thought FDR was a god. Grandpa said the worst thing you could call a person back then was a "Hoover Democrat."

[princehal]

7. Molly Ivens

nt

[Cleita]

43. Definitely Molly. She died too young and too soon.

I'm sure if there is a heaven she's beaming up there that Bush is finally gone.

[Cleita]

44. ..n/t

[Sheets of Easter]

9. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, former President Robert F. Kennedy

[lldu]

10. My wife.......She hated GWB N/T

[Tansy_Gold]

14. My husband. . . . . .ditto. . . .. n/t

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[NYC Liberal]

11. Molly Ivins

[wellstone dem]

12. Paul Wellstone.

[Dinger]

13. How About In The Last 10 Years?

Paul Wellstone

Johnny Cash


Toot


Yes, Carlin


JFK Jr.



Stephanie Tubbs Jones


Corretta Scott King



Yes, Paul Newman

[geniph]

15. Molly, Molly, Molly

Dear gods, I wish I could read her article on the inauguration. Man, do I ever miss her.

[ShadesOfGrey]

28. I wish the same. Miss her badly! nt

[XOKCowboy]

79. Don't forget Ann Richards also

I'd love to hear what she said when GWB flew off.

[Up2Late]

16. John Kennedy Jr. and his mother Jackie...

They would be loving today.:cry:

[DCKit]

17. Every racist POS who ever lived....

Just so we could watch their heads explode. :evilgrin:

[Arugula Latte]

18. Obama's grandmother.

:(

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. Jerry Falwell, Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, Ronald Reagan...

Then I wish they would stroke out and die again.

[lpbk2713]

20. Ann Richards

I'm sorry she missed this day. She would be having a wonderful time.

[Mist]

21. My father, who died in '03. He would have been an Obama supporter, and he'd have

been proud and a bit dazed at the Obama Presidency.

[Canuckistanian]

22. Studs Terkel n/t

[Sequoia]

66. I agree with you and Obama's mother for sure.

[peacetalksforall]

23. Odetta and many more. I was so happy with Pete Seeger on Sunday.

Especially, with the origimal words of Guthrie.

[Sal Minella]

34. Odetta yes. I kept thinking about her while watching the concert yesterday. nt

[Tansy_Gold]

60. Nick Reynolds, John Stewart

.

[Up2Late]

24. Osama bin Laden.

He'd be impressed if he hadn't died back in 2001.:evilgrin:

[skeewee08]

25. My Mom and MLK, Rosa Parks, Corretts Scott King....

[malaise]

Most of those that are known are already stated

but my little sister would have loved today.

[MotorCityMan]

26. My late partner, Mike

He listened since the 2000 (s)election to me pontificate on the horrors of * and his evil minions.

Mike passed away in December 2003. He would have been so happy to see Obama take the presidency.

God bless you, Mike. I love and miss you so much.

Also, Molly Ivins.

[8 track mind]

73. A toast to Mike!

Sorry for your loss.

[peacetalksforall]

27. All the Black Americans who died in service during the last eight years and all

the Tuskogee, WW2, Vietnam, and other smaller conflicts.

[the bat]

29. People

Mr. Ray Charles singing "America the Beautiful". The definitive version of this anthem.

the bat

[nc4bo]

30. My daddy - he'd never, in a million years believe that this day would come. NEVER.

I cried a tear in my father's name today- we'd have been burning up the phone lines and cell phone towers talking about this incredibly historic day.

:toast: Dad - we did it. We really, really did it!!

[bullwinkle428]

31. Every soldier whose life was sacrificed for that outgoing miserable POS's

excuse for a war!

[Raine]

32. My father ...

he died this past March, he had listened to the debates and voted in the primary but sadly didn't make it to the election. :-(

[Bigmack]

33. Barbara Jordan.... nt

[Sal Minella]

36. Barbara Jordan should have been President, she would have been one of our greatest if the time

had not been out of joint.

Like Obama, she understood what the Constitution was about, and for, and believed in it.

[Bigmack]

75. ... and the speaking voice....

and the powerful intellect....

Damn. If only she could have seen this.

[Sal Minella]

80. and the deep-rooted, unshakable, belief in the living Constitution.

If she had ever become Chief Justice (letting go of the Presidency for a minute) -- you can just bet she wouldn't have fucked up administering the oath of office to the President ascendant.

I just hope SOMEBODY throws that at him next time he whines about needing a raise. Meeting a minimal level of competence at the job is necessary before one deserves a raise, and he has a long way to go.

[KamaAina]

35. H. Ashley Morris, Ph.D. The best damned blogger there ever was.

http://www.rememberashleymorris.com



His was not simply a life ardently dedicated to New Orleans. His life was inseparable from the city whose fleur de lis symbol he had tattooed upon his arm. He was not just spirited in his love of this city, he was in some sense a spirit of this city, a sort of deva or force of nature, the dedication so many people feel for New Orleans concentrated and made incarnate in living flesh. (from the former DUer who introduced us)

[Taverner]

37. All of the Civil Rights martyrs from Crispus Attucus on down...

[Earth_First]

38. Hunter S. Thompson n/t

[devilgrrl]

39. My 93 year old Uncle Dick who died this passed September.

He so would have voted for Obama!

[EFerrari]

40. My friends Laurie and Marilyn would have loved this. And Andy, of course.

[Cassandra]

52. And nostamj and kephra.

[Blue-Jay]

41. Abe Vigoda

[robertpaulsen]

48. Alright, you got me with that one.

:spray: :rofl:

[demodonkey]

42. Andy. nt

[Odin2005]

45. Rosa Parks, Paul Wellstone.

[Cleita]

46. My husband, all our dearly departed DUers and Molly Ivins

who would have loved to see this day.

[Va Lefty]

47. The +4200 Americans who died in bush's illegal, immoral war!

[annarbor]

63. Best answer yet!

n/t

[Pyrzqxgl]

49. Furry Lewis, Jesse Fuller, Etta Baker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sam Chatmon,

Thomas E. Shaw, Willie Mae Thornton, Sleepy John Estes, Roosevelt Sykes,
John Jackson, Robert Pete Williams, Elizabeth Cotton, John Hurt, Fred MacDowell,
Roy Brown, Lowell Fulson, Floyd Dixon, Gatemouth Brown, Freddie King, Clabe
Hangen, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Walter Horton, Earl Hooker, Albert King,
Rufus Thomas, Joe Tex, & so many more.

[Batgirl]

71. That's a pretty good list nt

[taterguy]

50. Bighouse Gaines

I only met him once, at a 7:00 AM organizing meeting during the Helms-Gantt race.

At the time he was one of the one of winningest college basketball coaches ever but still working to make his community better.

[bluesmail]

51. Paul Wellstone. Definitely.

[annarbor]

53. Barbara Jordan, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers and MLK

my grandmothers would have love to have see it too...

[martymar64]

54. Abbie Hoffman

He would have dug it.

[Sugar Smack]

55. Hunter S. Thompson.

Without a doubt.

[Vinca]

56. Not recent, but Barbara Jordan. nt

[easttexaslefty]

57. that's easy

my son, who went to the MLK Day parade and the giant immigration reform walk in Dallas Texas with me, his proud mom. RIP, Danny boy

[WeDidIt]

58. Kephra n/t

[NikolaC]

59. My Father

and first husband. My first husband was beyond angry at the theft of 2000 and I think that he would have been happy and excited today. My father would have been beside himself because I don't think that he ever thought that this day would come.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

61. Apart from the DU'ers we have lost

Kef, Andy Stephenson, Playhata, OldJunkMail, Nostamj and all the others who deserved to be here

I would have liked my mother to have seen this day. She was clued in to how evil the Bush and Cheney crew were and what a complete disaster they would be long before I was and she detested them She would have been amazed

My maternal grandparents as well. My grandfather was raised in colonial Southeast Asia and had the British as his colonial rulers for half of his life. I think he would have been pleasantly amazed at seeing an African-American in the White House. He was also keenly interested in news and current events -he used to listen to BBC radio news every hour -and he would have loved following all the coverage. My maternal grandmother only missed out on seeing this by a few years but she would have been truly amazed as well

I wish Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks had lived just a few more years. They were so close to seeing history being made. At least they saw Obama get elected to the Senate

[blonndee]

62. My grandma!

The only other Democrat in my entire family. She was such a wonderful woman.

[all.of.me]

64. My staunch Republican parents.

Passed in 2002 & 2006. After the 2004 election, my mother asked who I voted for. I said, 'Not Bush.' And she said, at 91 years old, 'Someday you'll learn.' I would LOVE for them both to see this today. They were stereotypical 'white is right' Americans.

[Book Lover]

65. Odetta n/t

[havocmom]

78. Thought I caught just a glimpse of her, standing just beyond Aretha's shoulder

Could have been something in my eye, but I could have sworn I caught a glimpse of Odetta

:hug:

[Lex]

67. Kurt Vonnegut.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

68. Thurgood Marshall n/t

[asthmaticeog]

69. Mildred Loving.

She was half of the interracial couple whose SCOTUS case stuck down anti-miscegenation laws nationwide. She died in May.

[Kajsa]

70. One of my best friends in high school,

Margaret, who passed away April of last year.

I know she is smiling today.

[8 track mind]

72. Grandma, Granpa, Johnny Carson and Steve McQueen n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

74. My mom and dad.

Not so recently deceased, but I know they would have loved this day.

[Zuiderelle]

76. My mom.

[likesmountains 52]

77. Colleen..