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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 10:32 AM
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Profiles In Courage...
Just a reminder that there have in the past been politicians who put principles above their careers, and sometimes even their lives. Isn't it time?


http://www.senate.gov/reference/reference_item/Profiles_In_Courage.htm
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 10:39 AM
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1. Taft challenging the legitimacy of the Nuremberg Trials really
took conviction of principles as I can't imagine anything more politically incorrect or inflammatory than that stance, especially right after World War II. He paid for his position, but I'm sure he didn't regret a word.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 10:39 AM
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2. We don't have any statesmen anymore
just politicians. "A statesman looks ahead to the next generation, a politician can't see past the next election."
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:05 AM
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3. Kucinich lost an election over his principled stance against privitization of his citys utilities
of course, he was proven right, and parlayed that into a being a national political figure.
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