{"id":11521,"date":"2007-08-08T18:10:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T01:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/08\/politicians-great-and-gall.html"},"modified":"2007-08-08T18:10:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T01:10:46","slug":"politicians_great_and_gal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/politicians_great_and_gal.html","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Great and Gall"},"content":{"rendered":"

DOF offers up a challenge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Choose your 5 favorite and 5 least favorite American politicians dating back through your parents\u2019 generation.  Give a short explanation – about three sentences – for each one.  The politicians need not be well-known.  If you\u2019re really an incurable political junkie, you can go 10 and 10 with the same limitation on explanation length.  I\u2019ll probably go with 5 and 5.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He’s offering to put up links to other folks post who participate.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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