All Time Political Powers Draft

[wTFaMonkey]

He was an inventor and philosopher more than he was a politician. Other than being one of Pennsylvania's delegates in the constitutional convention, did he ever really fulfill a position of public service?

he was one of our founding fathers!


remember this? yeah he drew it

[High Potential]

Picking Ben Franklin is like picking Thomas Paine though. Was he really a political power?

[High Potential]

he was one of our founding fathers!


remember this? yeah he drew it

I know he served as one of the delegates for Pennsylvania in the constitutional convention but is that really enough to qualify him as a political power?

[ForceOfNature]

With my pick, I select...

Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest unifiers and nation builders of all time. He was a tactful politician and an outstanding speaker. Without him, the United States would not be what it is today, and that's saying a lot.



Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, only to be assassinated less than a week after the war's end.[1] Before his election as President, Lincoln was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.

As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States,[2][3] Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln's death and was ratified by the states later in 1865.

Lincoln closely supervised the victorious war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Historians have concluded that he handled the factions of the Republican Party well, bringing leaders of each faction into his cabinet and forcing them to cooperate. Lincoln successfully defused a war scare with the United Kingdom in 1861. Under his leadership, the Union took control of the border slave states at the start of the war. Additionally, he managed his own reelection in the 1864 presidential election.

Opponents of the war (also known as "Copperheads") criticized Lincoln for refusing to compromise on the slavery issue. Conversely, the Radical Republicans, an abolitionist faction of the Republican Party, criticized him for moving too slowly in abolishing slavery. Even with these road blocks, Lincoln successfully rallied public opinion through his rhetoric and speeches; his Gettysburg Address is but one example of this. At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to speedily reunite the nation through a policy of generous reconciliation. His assassination in 1865 was the first presidential assassination in U.S. history and made him a martyr for the ideal of national unity.

[PHP]Round 1

1) LakersDynasty - Joseph Stalin
2) wTFaMonkey - Qin Shi Huang
3) Doomsday Dallas - John F. Kennedy
4) hotsizzle - Napoleon Bonaparte
5) vapid - Caesar Augustus
6) Lebron23 - Emperor Charlemagne
7) ForceOfNature - Genghis Khan
8) DirtBag - Alexander the Great
9) High Potential - King Leonidas I
10) XxNeXusxX - Ivan the Terrible
11) JtotheIzzo - Mahatma Gandhi
12) Dasher - Atilla the Hun

Round 2

1) Dasher - Maximilien Robespierre
2) JtotheIzzo - Dr. Sun Yat Sen
3) XxNeXusxX - Julius Caesar
4) High Potential - Fidel Castro
5) DirtBag - Nelson Mandela
6) wTFaMonkey - Benjamin Franklin
7) ForceOfNature - Abraham Lincoln
8) Lebron23 - On the clock, time expires at 5:42 am EST
9) vapid -
10) hotsizzle -
11) Doomsday Dallas -
12) LakersDynasty -

Round 3

1) LakersDynasty -
2) wTFaMonkey -
3) Doomsday Dallas -
4) hotsizzle -
5) vapid -
6) Lebron23 -
7) ForceOfNature -
8) DirtBag -
9) High Potential -
10) XxNeXusxX -
11) JtotheIzzo -
12) Dasher -

Round 4

1) Dasher -
2) JtotheIzzo -
3) XxNeXusxX -
4) High Potential -
5) DirtBag -
6) ForceOfNature -
7) Lebron23 -
8) vapid -
9) hotsizzle -
10) Doomsday Dallas -
11) wTFaMonkey -
12) LakersDynasty -

Round 5

1) LakersDynasty -
2) wTFaMonkey -
3) Doomsday Dallas -
4) hotsizzle -
5) vapid -
6) Lebron23 -
7) ForceOfNature -
8) DirtBag -
9) High Potential -
10) XxNeXusxX -
11) JtotheIzzo -
12) Dasher -

Round 6

1) Dasher -
2) JtotheIzzo -
3) XxNeXusxX -
4) High Potential -
5) DirtBag -
6) ForceOfNature -
7) Lebron23 -
8) vapid -
9) hotsizzle -
10) Doomsday Dallas -
11) wTFaMonkey -
12) LakersDynasty -

Round 7

1) LakersDynasty -
2) wTFaMonkey -
3) Doomsday Dallas -
4) hotsizzle -
5) vapid -
6) Lebron23 -
7) ForceOfNature -
8) DirtBag -
9) High Potential -
10) XxNeXusxX -
11) JtotheIzzo -
12) Dasher -

Round 8

1) Dasher -
2) JtotheIzzo -
3) XxNeXusxX -
4) High Potential -
5) DirtBag -
6) ForceOfNature -
7) Lebron23 -
8) vapid -
9) hotsizzle -
10) Doomsday Dallas -
11) wTFaMonkey -
12) LakersDynasty -

Round 9

1) LakersDynasty -
2) wTFaMonkey -
3) Doomsday Dallas -
4) hotsizzle -
5) vapid -
6) Lebron23 -
7) ForceOfNature -
8) DirtBag -
9) High Potential -
10) XxNeXusxX -
11) JtotheIzzo -
12) Dasher -

Round 10

1) Dasher -
2) JtotheIzzo -
3) XxNeXusxX -
4) High Potential -
5) DirtBag -
6) ForceOfNature -
7) Lebron23 -
8) vapid -
9) hotsizzle -
10) Doomsday Dallas -
11) wTFaMonkey -
12) LakersDynasty -
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[vapid]

I say ben franklin definitely qualifies.

[High Potential]

I say ben franklin definitely qualifies.

Well Leonidas would shank his fat ass.

[vapid]

Well Leonidas would shank his fat ass.

How old are you?

[ForceOfNature]

Just to clear it up guys - You gotta pick only men or women who have served in politics or were/are politicians. For the record, people like Jesus Christ, Confucious, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X are not allowable for this draft.

[MarloStanfield]

No one has picked that guy from Germany yet?

[ForceOfNature]

No one has picked that guy from Germany yet?

That guy from Germany who lost World War II and killed himself because he lost?

[Bean]

No one has picked that guy from Germany yet?

Still surprised.

[MarloStanfield]

LOL But JFK and Ben Franklin were picked ahead of him?

[LakersDynasty]

I know who I'm going to pick but there's 3 guys ahead of me so I'm sure he'll be taken by the time it's my turn. Let's go Vap.

[vapid]

I know who I'm going to pick but there's 3 guys ahead of me so I'm sure he'll be taken by the time it's my turn. Let's go Vap.

I think its Lebron23's turn right?

[High Potential]

No one wants to be labeled an N-word I'm thinking.