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KS Toronado

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44. My list

Mon Apr 18, 2022, 03:23 AM

Apr 2022

Martin Luther King
James Earl Jones
Chris Rock
Patrick Mahomes
Colin Kaepernick
Tony Gonzalez
Michael Strahan
Denzel Washington
Morgan Freeman
Dwayne Johnson
Samuel L. Jackson
Laurence Fishburne
Forest Whitaker
Eddie Murphy
Danny Glover
Sidney Poitier
Jamie Foxx
Michael Jordan
Michael Clarke Duncan
Billy Dee Williams
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Ving Rhames
Wesley Snipes
Chris Tucker
Don Cheadle
Kevin Hart
Chadwick Boseman
Dave Chappelle
Spike Lee
Carl Weathers
Harry Belafonte
Arsenio Hall
LeVar Burton
Mr. T
Barry Sanders

Well, the white males aren't doing that good of a job running this country.
Many on this list rose up out of poverty.

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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

Why...n/t bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #10

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Why...n/t bluecollar2 Apr 2022 #11

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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