Favorite Founding Father....

070311 | Gman992

[gman992]

Okay, who is everyone favorite founding father??

[definitelynotaliberal]

I can’t pick one founding father, but I can pick one set and that set includes Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and James Madison.

[humblegunner]

I is not.

[SunkenCiv]

• Alexander Hamilton, Modern America's Founding Father

[Riley]

Yup. :-)

Got milk?

[unkus]

George Washington.

[Political Junkie Too]

Quincy followed his father to Europe to be his secretary. He also separated from his father for three years when he was secretary to the diplomat who went to Russia.

So I might put him in the category of late Founder.

Even John Adams was in Europe while the Constitution was being written. Benjamin Franklin was recalled and was able to participate in crafting the Constitution. Jefferson was also in Europe with Adams and missed out on crafting the Constitution.

So the set of Founders is diverse, and spans the time of agitating for the Declaration of Independence through the ratifying of the Constitution. John Quincy Adams did play a part in securing lines of credit and building foreign relationships with the European countries, while the famous Founders were back home finalizing the Constitution.

-PJ

[1rudeboy]

Luther Martin

I jest, in part, because I haven't read Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet, but here's something from the dustjacket:

The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us--if he is known at all--as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who exasperated James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris, and the other giants responsible for the creation of the Constitution in Philadelphia that summer of 1787. Martin is still something of a fitfully charming reprobate, but he is also a prophetic voice, warning his heedless contemporaries and his amnesiac posterity that the Constitution, whatever its devisers' intentions, would come to be used as a blueprint for centralized government and a militaristic foreign policy.

[gorush]

Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Monroe, Polk and Jackson.

[free me]

George Washington. He was the best man to ever be President.

[VA Voter]

The indespensable man: George Washington

[Mr. Silverback]

Washington hands down. A giant among giants.

[unkus]

George Washington is a man I hold in very high esteem. His personal character was really superlative. Courageous, bright, decisive, a leader of men - yet TRULY humble, such a rare quality.

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Very well said.

[smokingfrog]

[nonliberal]

Not just that, Adams was one of the few who would not have been given amnesty had the British won. He would have been hanged.

He endured YEARS away from his family and home for the betterment of America and ran the bureaucracy behind the Revolutionary effort singlehandedly at times.

[GonzoGOP]

Washington. He is the only man who could have made himself a king and been cheered for doing so. His example in peacefully turning over power and retiring from public life made the difference between the great American experiment ending with a free republic rather than a banana republic.

[JDW11235]

Agreed. Washington also prayed for at least an hour everyday (IIRC), a trait not often found these days, especially by politicians.

[gorush]

"Jefferson, Madison, Washington, Monroe, Polk and Jackson....

although Monroe was the last of the founding fathers.

[steelyourfaith]

Sarah likes all the Founding Fathers (me too, the more I read the more I like each one!) in answer to Glenn Beck's question when he interviewed her on his TV program 1/13/10.

Remember when Mika Brzezinski, one of those from the line up of really super-duper smart MSNBC hosts had a chuckle at Sarah's answer On Morning Joe? "Wow !", she exclaimed and then added that Lincoln was her favorite Founding Father.

[StolarStorm]

You can’t beat that. How many could turn down a crown or even another term of office? I wonder..., where are these men today or why can’t they get elected?

[RedMDer]

George Washington