Who is our Barbara Jordan? Where is our Barbara Jordan?

[choie]

"I am not going to sit hear and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the constitution."

What an orator...

[nocoincidences]

1. No one can match Barbara Jordan.

She was an amazing one-of-a-kind.

[kag]

2. She spoke at my commencement

when I graduated from UT Austin. She was truly an amazing orator. I still remember part of her speech.

[cab67]

6. She spoke at a Clinton rally in 1992 at UT.

I was in grad school there at the time.

Her voice boomed.

[mucifer]

8. She was my brother's professor there. I got to meet her at his graduation

[monmouth4]

3. Taken from us much, much too soon. I loved her and respected her so much, she inspired my interest

in politics.

[Honeycombe8]

4. She was something else. Unique.

Like Obama, there won't be another one.

But it's time for another one like her to appear. Maybe before I die, we'll see another sort-of-like Barbara Jordan. Maxine Waters is something else, too, but with a different style. The eloquence is missing; she's more of a fire-spitting dragon. Don't even TRY to use up her time! I love Maxine.

Obama was eloquent, too.

I love eloquence in speeches. It's missing among so many leaders these days. I think Mayor Pete has it.

Anyway, for Jordan to have gotten as far as she did, she had to be special. I can't imagine the sorts of things she must have encountered along the way.

[dalton99a]

5. A Texas treasure

University of Texas at Austin



Austin Airport

[choie]

7. I have yet to hear any member of congress

speak about Trump's degradation of the constitution with the same moral clarity as she spoke about Nixon's. and that's what we need.