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37. Not a problem to me. I took the OP to put together a revisit

Sun Apr 17, 2022, 10:51 PM

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to the founding with contemporaries worthy of the task. I don't personally know more than a handful of intellectually savvy despite my time in education.
I feel I know Thoreau, Dostoevsky et al, from the questions I posed them as I read. Thankfully, they generally anticipated those questions and answered them later on in the books. If that is not conversation, I stand corrected.

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Pick 27 people... [View all] bluecollar2 Apr 2022 OP

Zelensky Irish_Dem Apr 2022 #1

Why...n/t bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #9

Jimmy Carter Lefta Dissenter Apr 2022 #2

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Al Franken Wicked Blue Apr 2022 #4

Why...n/t bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #12

Good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like him Wicked Blue Apr 2022 #48

Several smart intellects in Congress SouthernIrish Apr 2022 #5

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Why...n/t bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #13

Bernie Sanders Meadowoak Apr 2022 #6

Why...n/t bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #14

Barrack Obama Meadowoak Apr 2022 #7

Why...n/t bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #15

lawyer like Lincoln and Jefferson treestar Apr 2022 #51

Excellent reasoning....n/t bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #53

Rachel Maddow would be high on my list. Grown2Hate Apr 2022 #17

Thanks for your input bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #18

Sure thing! Very interesting thought experiment. Grown2Hate Apr 2022 #20

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President Joe Biden. You'd be hard pressed to find a leader that Grown2Hate Apr 2022 #19

You said: 'you could only draw from the people you know and have been alive during your lifetime' Celerity Apr 2022 #21

Good point bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #23

Yeah, I thought I wasn't getting the question MerryBlooms Apr 2022 #24

The founding fathers knew each other mostly by their own cachukis Apr 2022 #26

But they did meet, and they did come to know each MerryBlooms Apr 2022 #29

Not a problem to me. I took the OP to put together a revisit cachukis Apr 2022 #37

We all have intellectually responded to the characters cachukis Apr 2022 #25

public personas often do not match the real person Celerity Apr 2022 #27

No question about that, but you can sense their cachukis Apr 2022 #36

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Neil de Grasse Tyson, science cachukis Apr 2022 #22

I like your list! StarryNite Apr 2022 #42

Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Stacey Abrams, Michelle Obama chowder66 Apr 2022 #28

i'm going to give specific names so much as qualifications Takket Apr 2022 #30

Thanks all for contributing bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #31

27+1, off the top of my head (Edit: only 27, counted Raskin twice) LuckyCharms Apr 2022 #32

I feel lucky to have been alive at the same time as mountain grammy Apr 2022 #33

My choice to head the convention would be Richard Posner... First Speaker Apr 2022 #38

My first two choices are dead Ferrets are Cool Apr 2022 #39

christiane amampour for her perspective on the world nocoincidences Apr 2022 #40

I'd add Steve Schmidt to the pool of talent. summer_in_TX Apr 2022 #41

Zelensky Raine Apr 2022 #43

My list KS Toronado Apr 2022 #44

Willie Nelson, Martha Stewart, Snoop Dog, Matthew McConaughey, Autumn Apr 2022 #45

Martha Stewart? She just let her four vicious fleabags kill her innocent cat. Disgusting. Ziggysmom Apr 2022 #49

Well whatever you do don't put her on your list. Autumn Apr 2022 #50

27 people? Just_Vote_Dem Apr 2022 #46

I'm not sure I'd even pick many of the founding fathers for the job back then Victor_c3 Apr 2022 #47

Being wealthy alone is not a condemnation treestar Apr 2022 #52