Choose your 5 favorite and 5 least favorite American politicians dating back through your parents’ generation. Give a short explanation – about three sentences – for each one. The politicians need not be well-known. If you’re really an incurable political junkie, you can go 10 and 10 with the same limitation on explanation length. I’ll probably go with 5 and 5.
He’s offering to put up links to other folks post who participate.
As for me — I’m actually not unhappy about DOF’s choices, good and bad. I’m not as sanguine (yet) about Obama (and, honestly, it’s too early for him to appear on lists like this), and any list like this that omits Jesse Helms is missing a frisson of ugliness, but I’d agree we could probably use more like his “favorites” and a lot fewer of his “least favorites.” I’m not enough of a political wonk or partisan to much improve on it.
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I feel the same way that it’s hard to improve on DOF’s list, although Jesse Helms is certainly a top candidate for any list of villains. What do you think of including Dick Cheney in the villain crowd, too?
Hmmmm. Yeah. It’s hard to say, because the dude is so utterly, aggressively dislikeable, it’s hard to tell whether he’s just another annoyingly awful member of the Adminstration, or evil robotic taskmaster of the whole megillah. Depends on how conspiracy-minded I’m feeling.
Here’s my list.
BTW, it doesn’t make you a bad person to say Dick Cheney is the source of all evil.
I actually don’t think he’s the source of all evil. But he’s certainly a decent-size supplier. :-)