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 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
9) vapid - Franklin D. Roosevelt
10) hotsizzle - Frederick II of Prussia
11) Doomsday Dallas - Ron Paul
12) LakersDynasty - Adolf Hitler
Round 3
1) LakersDynasty - Saddam Hussein
2) wTFaMonkey - Vladimir Lenin
3) Doomsday Dallas - Martin Luther King, Jr.
4) hotsizzle - Constantine the Great
5) vapid - Zhuge Liang
6) Lebron23 - George Washington
7) ForceOfNature - King Louis XIV (Louis the Great)
8) DirtBag - Thomas Jefferson
9) High Potential - Hannibal Barca
10) XxNeXusxX - Hernan Cortes
11) JtotheIzzo - Haile Selassie
12) Dasher - Simon Bolivar
Round 4
1) Dasher - J. Edgar Hoover
2) JtotheIzzo - Joan of Arc
3) XxNeXusxX - Otto van Bismarck
4) High Potential - Winston Churchill
5) DirtBag - Niccolo Machiavelli
6) ForceOfNature - William the Conqueror
7) Lebron23 - Mao Zedong
8) vapid - Suleiman the Magnificent
9) hotsizzle - time expired, still has to pick
10) Doomsday Dallas - On the clock, time expires at 1:26 am EST
11) wTFaMonkey -
12) LakersDynasty -
Alright... enough of the good speakers to motivate and inspire people... I need a General to fight these slave owners.
I select Ulysses S. Grant .... The greatest General of all time.
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At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was working in his father's leather store in Galena, Illinois. He was appointed by the Governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment. Grant whipped it into shape and by September 1861 he had risen to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers.
He sought to win control of the Mississippi Valley. In February 1862 he took Fort Henry and attacked Fort Donelson. When the Confederate commander asked for terms, Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers.
At Shiloh in April, Grant fought one of the bloodiest battles in the West and came out less well. President Lincoln fended off demands for his removal by saying, "I can't spare this man--he fights."
For his next major objective, Grant maneuvered and fought skillfully to win Vicksburg, the key city on the Mississippi, and thus cut the Confederacy in two. Then he broke the Confederate hold on Chattanooga.
Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he himself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Finally, on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant wrote out magnanimous terms of surrender that would prevent treason trials.
As President, Grant presided over the Government much as he had run the Army. Indeed he brought part of his Army staff to the White House.
Although a man of scrupulous honesty, Grant as President accepted handsome presents from admirers. Worse, he allowed himself to be seen with two speculators, Jay Gould and James Fisk. When Grant realized their scheme to corner the market in gold, he authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to sell enough gold to wreck their plans, but the speculation had already wrought havoc with business.
During his campaign for re-election in 1872, Grant was attacked by Liberal Republican reformers. He called them "narrow-headed men," their eyes so close together that "they can look out of the same gimlet hole without winking." The General's friends in the Republican Party came to be known proudly as "the Old Guard."
Grant allowed Radical Reconstruction to run its course in the South, bolstering it at times with military force.
After retiring from the Presidency, Grant became a partner in a financial firm, which went bankrupt. About that time he learned that he had cancer of the throat. He started writing his recollections to pay off his debts and provide for his family, racing against death to produce a memoir that ultimately earned nearly $450,000. Soon after completing the last page, in 1885, he died.
hotsizzle and wTFaMonkey are now both on the clock.
Nice Dooms, the all-American team.
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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 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
9) vapid - Franklin D. Roosevelt
10) hotsizzle - Frederick II of Prussia
11) Doomsday Dallas - Ron Paul
12) LakersDynasty - Adolf Hitler
Round 3
1) LakersDynasty - Saddam Hussein
2) wTFaMonkey - Vladimir Lenin
3) Doomsday Dallas - Martin Luther King, Jr.
4) hotsizzle - Constantine the Great
5) vapid - Zhuge Liang
6) Lebron23 - George Washington
7) ForceOfNature - King Louis XIV (Louis the Great)
8) DirtBag - Thomas Jefferson
9) High Potential - Hannibal Barca
10) XxNeXusxX - Hernan Cortes
11) JtotheIzzo - Haile Selassie
12) Dasher - Simon Bolivar
Round 4
1) Dasher - J. Edgar Hoover
2) JtotheIzzo - Joan of Arc
3) XxNeXusxX - Otto van Bismarck
4) High Potential - Winston Churchill
5) DirtBag - Niccolo Machiavelli
6) ForceOfNature - William the Conqueror
7) Lebron23 - Mao Zedong
8) vapid - Suleiman the Magnificent
9) hotsizzle - time expired, still has to pick
10) Doomsday Dallas - Ulysses S. Grant
11) wTFaMonkey - On the clock, time expires at 8:19 am EST
12) LakersDynasty -
arguably the greatest roman general. most notably beating Hannibal of Carthage. first Roman general to expand Roman territories outside Italy and islands around the Italian mainland.
hotsizzle and LakersDynasty are now both on the clock.
Nice Dooms, the all-American team.
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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 - Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
9) vapid - Franklin D. Roosevelt
10) hotsizzle - Frederick II of Prussia
11) Doomsday Dallas - Ron Paul
12) LakersDynasty - Adolf Hitler
Round 3
1) LakersDynasty - Saddam Hussein
2) wTFaMonkey - Vladimir Lenin
3) Doomsday Dallas - Martin Luther King, Jr.
4) hotsizzle - Constantine the Great
5) vapid - Zhuge Liang
6) Lebron23 - George Washington
7) ForceOfNature - King Louis XIV (Louis the Great)
8) DirtBag - Thomas Jefferson
9) High Potential - Hannibal Barca
10) XxNeXusxX - Hernan Cortes
11) JtotheIzzo - Haile Selassie
12) Dasher - Simon Bolivar
Round 4
1) Dasher - J. Edgar Hoover
2) JtotheIzzo - Joan of Arc
3) XxNeXusxX - Otto van Bismarck
4) High Potential - Winston Churchill
5) DirtBag - Niccolo Machiavelli
6) ForceOfNature - William the Conqueror
7) Lebron23 - Mao Zedong
8) vapid - Suleiman the Magnificent
9) hotsizzle - time expired, still has to pick
10) Doomsday Dallas - Ulysses S. Grant
11) wTFaMonkey - Scipio Africanus
12) LakersDynasty - On the clock, time expires at 8:43 am EST
He is often regarded as Egypt's greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh.[5] His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor." He is traditionally believed to have been the Pharaoh of the Exodus.
Not even top 100 general of all time. Or top 100 general from the past 150 years. And at best be was the 3rd best general in the civil war alone. Epic fail.
Last edited by High Potential : 09-19-2008 at 05:25 AM.
Re: All Time Political Powers Draft
Very good picture.
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