What Was The Last Noble-Act By A Politician That Made You Proud To Be American?

Question

Is there a politician out there that has really stood up for your core beliefs?

Someone who really made you proud and helped to regain some of your faith in the political process?

Answer 1

There was a Representative in Upstate NY many years ago by the name of Louise Slaughter. She was a die-hard defender of the "little guy" and very often responded directly to requests from those in her jursidiction that wrote to or called her for her assistance on a political matter. She was truely a politician for the people which is what many of today's Representatives have forgotten.

Answer 2

I'm not old enough to remember when politicians were noble. But seriously, I don't really think any politician is considered noble during their lifetime. It is only in retrospect that we see the selflessness of their decisions. Lincoln was practically hated while he was President. Kennedy would probably have gone down in history as one of our worst presidents had it not been for his assassination and the accompanying national sorrow. We tend to remember what we wish to remember about certain politicians. Many will remember President Clinton as a great man and many will remember him as nothing more than a whoremonger. The nobility of a politician is directly proportional to our own individual belief in what nobility is.

Answer 3

President John F. Kennedy. I suppose younger people today know more about his sexual escapades than who he really was but I hope you'll read more about him. He stood up to most of his cabinet and his generals during especially the Cuban Missile Crisis. I included a link to many of his great quotes. And of course his brother, Bobby, also assassinated. There have been others over the years but they were really amazing.

I love Jimmy Carter too-a class act.

Answer 4

hmmm..back in 2001 when the Congress waived their own "pay-raises" out of pseudo-respect for 9/11. Or maybe McCain standing up to the other conservatives....his Readers Digest article outlining his strategy on Iraq was DEAD ON, and his anti-toture, anti-corruption campaigns are unique and untouchable.

Answer 5

George W. Bush, who ignores the ridiculous critics and keeps moving forward.

(donning flame-retardant gear)

Answer 6

It was a MP from Britain who testified before the US Senate.
George Galloway

"Now, Senator, I gave my heart and soul to oppose the policy that you promoted. I gave my political life's blood to try to stop the mass killing of Iraqis by the sanctions on Iraq which killed one million Iraqis, most of them children, most of them died before they even knew that they were Iraqis, but they died for no other reason other than that they were Iraqis with the misfortune to born at that time. I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq. And I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies.

“I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.

If the world had listened to Kofi Annan, whose dismissal you demanded, if the world had listened to President Chirac who you want to paint as some kind of corrupt traitor, if the world had listened to me and the anti-war movement in Britain, we would not be in the disaster that we are in today. Senator, this is the mother of all smokescreens. You are trying to divert attention from the crimes that you supported, from the theft of billions of dollars of Iraq's wealth.

"Have a look at the real Oil-for-Food scandal. Have a look at the 14 months you were in charge of Baghdad, the first 14 months when $8.8 billion of Iraq's wealth went missing on your watch. Have a look at Halliburton and other American corporations that stole not only Iraq's money, but the money of the American taxpayer.

"Have a look at the oil that you didn't even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where? Have a look at the $800 million you gave to American military commanders to hand out around the country without even counting it or weighing it.

"Have a look at the real scandal breaking in the newspapers today, revealed in the earlier testimony in this committee. That the biggest sanctions busters were not me or Russian politicians or French politicians. The real sanctions busters were your own companies with the connivance of your own Government."

Answer 7

JIMMY CARTER