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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho do you look up to?
We need some positivity here.
I look up to Michelle and Barack Obama.
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Who do you look up to? (Original Post)
milestogo
5 hrs ago
OP
Yeah, the Obamas. Also some local activists in the red county where I live
Attilatheblond
5 hrs ago
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MustLoveBeagles
(18,268 posts)1. The Obamas
The Bidens, Marc Carney, and Vladimir Zelinskyy.
WhiskeyGrinder
(27,352 posts)2. no one I don't know personally
Attilatheblond
(9,468 posts)3. Yeah, the Obamas. Also some local activists in the red county where I live
Especially the ones who power on despite bouts of cancer, back surgery, and many other ills of old age. One of my favorites is a tiny woman who works tirelessly to fight corporations who want every drop of our precious fossil ground water in this desert area.
Torchlight
(7,216 posts)4. John Lennon and Pope John Paul II.
(for the benefits of Statler and Waldorf... I, as well as the rational world are fully aware no one is perfect, but thanks anyway)
CTyankee
(68,590 posts)5. The Obamas, now more than ever!
DET
(2,670 posts)6. Jamie Raskin, Vladimir Zelinsky
There are others, but those two stand out as tremendous leaders who have been to hell and back (in different ways) and refuse to be intimidated.
MineralMan
(152,011 posts)7. People Who Go out of Their Way to Help Others.
That's who I look up to.