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To: nigel bates who wrote (57273)6/30/2009 7:10:09 PM
From: Metacomet  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 149317
 
I'll stick with Jefferson.

Franklin cannot be minimized, but the founding genius, as the author of the Declaration of Independence is my pick....

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To: nigel bates who wrote (57273)6/30/2009 7:12:05 PM
From: Metacomet  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 149317
 
Whatever else he was, Goldwater was hardly brilliant - and he certainly lacked Jefferson's way with words.

Of course.

I said he was a Jeffersonian Democrat. That is a philosophical comparison not an intellectual one.