- John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, decorated war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. On February 28, 2007, during a guest appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman", …
- Tony Snow
Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (born June 1, 1955) is the current White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush. He succeeded Scott McClellan, becoming the third individual to serve in that position under Bush. Snow also worked for President George H. W. Bush as chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs. Between his two White House stints, Snow was a broadcaster and newspaper columnist.
- Chris Matthews
Christopher John Matthews (born December 17 1945) is an American journalist, television show host and former political aide. Matthews has worked for four Democratic politicians. He was a presidential speechwriter for four years during the administration of Jimmy Carter. Matthews hosts a nightly, hour-long talk show called "Hardball with Chris Matthews" on the American cable television channel MSNBC, …
- Jeremiah Wright
Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. (born September 22, 1941) is a former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), a largely African-American megachurch in Chicago with 10,000 members. He retired on February 10, 2008, after 36 years as the senior pastor of that congregation.
- George McGovern
George Stanley McGovern, Ph.D (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to incumbent Richard Nixon. McGovern was most noted for his opposition to the Vietnam War. He is currently serving as the United Nations global ambassador on hunger.
- Bill Bradley
William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former U.S. Senator from New Jersey and presidential candidate, who challenged Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.
- James Carville
James Carville (born October 25, 1944), is an American political consultant, commentator, media personality and pundit. Known as the "Ragin' Cajun", Carville gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful 1992 presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Carville was the co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" until its final broadcast in June 2005. Since its cancellation, he has appeared on CNN's new program, …
- Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Hanford "Liddy" Dole (born July 29, 1936) is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidential administrations, and currently serves as a United States senator representing the state of North Carolina. The first woman to represent North Carolina in the Senate, she was elected to the Senate in 2002 for a term ending in 2009.
- Bob Graham
Daniel Robert Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American politician. He was a United States Senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005 and the governor of that state from 1979 to 1987. Following a failed bid for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2004 presidential race, Graham was considered a possible running mate for John Kerry.
- Joe Trippi
Joe Trippi is a long-time American Democratic campaign worker and consultant. A mainstay in presidential politics, Trippi has worked on the presidential campaigns of Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, and Dick Gephardt. Most notably, he served as campaign manager for presidential candidate and former Vermont governor Howard Dean. He is currently working for the presidential campaign of former Senator John Edwards.
- Paul Simon
Paul Martin Simon was an American politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. During the campaign, he briefly captured the national attention and was considered a major candidate.
- Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. (born March 11 1965) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing (map). He is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.
- Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (born April 24, 1941) is an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, Peace Corps official, and investment banker. He is also the only person to have held the Assistant Secretary of State position for two different regions of the world (Asia and Europe). From 1993-1994, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Although long well-known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, …
- William Safire
William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an American author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. He is perhaps best known as a long-time syndicated political columnist for "The New York Times" and a regular contributor to "On Language" in the "New York Times Magazine", a column on popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics.
- Jim Geraghty
Jim Geraghty is a regular contributor to "National Review Online" and "National Review". In addition to writing columns for "National Review", Geraghty also has a weblog on the site named TKS and is a former reporter for States News Service. During the 2004 US Presidential election, Geraghty was often critical of Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry. At the time his weblog used the name "The Kerry Spot".
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan was a United States Senator, Ambassador, and eminent sociologist. He was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected with the Democratic Party three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, …
- Leona Helmsley
Leona Helmsley (born Lena Rosenthol July 4, 1920, in Ulster County, New York) is a New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989 and served 18 months in prison, after receiving an initial sentence of 16 years. United States Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who later became mayor of New York City and United States presidential candidate, was one of the two chief prosecutors.
- Carl Cameron
Carl Cameron is a television personality for Fox News in the United States, and has served as political correspondent following presidential candidates George W. Bush in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004. He served as chief political correspondent during the 2004 United States presidential election. In 2005 Cameron became chief White House Correspondent. In June 2006, he returned to his post as chief political correspondent to cover the 2006 midterm elections.
- Stuart Rothenberg
Stuart Rothenberg is the editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, a Washington-based, biweekly, non-partisan newsletter that reports on and analyzes the United States Presidential, House, Senatorial, and Gubernatorial elections and current political developments. Rothenberg holds a B.A. from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He has taught political science at Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, …
- Wayne Allyn Root
Wayne Allyn Root (b.July 20, 1961 in Mount Vernon, New York) is a business mogul, television celebrity, TV producer, best-selling author, professional sports handicapper, and prospective Libertarian Party presidential candidate based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Cofer Black
J. (Joseph) Cofer Black was the United States Department of State Coordinator for Counterterrorism with the rank of Ambassador at Large from December 2002 to November 2004. The point man for the U.S. government's international counterterrorism policy in the first term of the Bush administration, he resigned shortly after George W. Bush was elected to a second presidential term. Since February 2005, Black has been Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA, …
- Norman Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, member of the social-democrat Socialist Party (PS). A former Finance Minister under Lionel Jospin's Plural left ("gauche plurielle") government, he belongs to the center-left wing of the PS and is deputy of the 8th circonscription of the Val d'Oise. DSK is Professor at the Paris Institute for Political Studies ("Sciences Po") and the HEC School of Management.
- Angelo Reyes
Angelo Tomas Reyes was the Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines under President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2001 to 2003. He is currently the Secretary of the Department of Energy.
- Bill van Auken
Bill Van Auken (born 1950)is a politician and activist for the Socialist Equality Party and was there presidential candidate in the U.S. election of 2004, announcing his candidacy on January 27, 2004. His running mate was Jim Lawrence. He came in 15th for the popular vote, receiving 1,857 votes. In November 2006, Van Auken ran for the United States Senate seat held by Hillary Clinton.
- Gretchen Morgenson
Gretchen Morgenson , Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from The New York Times, is an expert from the world of journalism. She is knowledgeable on the WHOs and the WHATs of Executive Compensation's uses and abuses. Her topic is The Good, The Bad and the Ugly in Executive and Board Compensation.
- John Distaso
John DiStaso is a newspaper journalist who is currently the senior political reporter for the "Union Leader", a daily published in Manchester, New Hampshire.
- Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 - May 1, 1998) was an author and a prominent American civil rights leader who began as a dominant member of the Black Panther Party. Born in Wabbaseka, Arkansas, Cleaver's family moved to Phoenix and then to Los Angeles. As a teenager he was involved in petty crime, and in 1957 was convicted of assault with intent to murder. While in prison, he wrote a book of essays, "Soul on Ice", …
- Carlos Brito
Carlos Alfredo de Brito, <small>GCIH</small>; (born 1933) is a Portuguese politician. He joined the illegal Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) during the fascist New State regime (1932-1974), by whom he was imprisoned. In the presidential election of 1980, he was the Communist Party candidate, but withdrew shortly before the elections in support of the incumbent President, General António Ramalho Eanes, …
- Lenora Fulani
Lenora B. Fulani twice ran for President of the U.S. as an independent, making history in 1988 when she became the first woman and African American to get on the ballot in all fifty states. Dr. Fulani is currently a leading activist in the Reform Party and chairs the Committee for a Unified Independent Party. She can be reached at 800-288-3201 or at http://www.Fulani.org.
- Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.
- Joker Arroyo
Joker Paz Arroyo is a Filipino lawyer, politician and Senator of the Republic of the Philippines. He has no direct relation with current Presidential spouse Jose Miguel Arroyo.
- Edward M. House
Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 - March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, politician and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the honorific title of Colonel House, he had enormous personal influence with President Woodrow Wilson as his foreign policy advisor until Wilson removed him in 1919. Born to a wealthy Texas landholding family, House was educated in New England prep schools and went on to study at Cornell University in 1877, …
- Charles Jay
Charles Jay (born 1960) was the Presidential nominee of the U.S. Personal Choice Party in the 2004 elections. He achieved ballot status in Utah, and received 946 votes in the general election, coming in 3rd from last. A former member of the U.S. Libertarian Party, he stepped down from the race for the Vice Presidential nomination to the 2004 ballot to run as for President under the Personal Choice banner.
- Pierre Salinger
Pierre Emil George Salinger (June 14, 1925 - October 16, 2004) was a White House Press Secretary to U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He later became known for his work as an ABC News correspondent, and in particular for his stories on the American hostage crisis in Iran, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, and his discredited claims as to the cause of the explosion of TWA flight 800.
- Gene Amondson
Gene Amondson, born in 1943 in Morton, Washington, was the 2004 United States presidential candidate for one faction of the Prohibition Party. The other faction had nominated perennial candidate Earl Dodge. Both candidates were on the ballot in Colorado, so the race between the two was seen by some as way of determining which faction will lead the party in the future.
- Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Pontefract and Castleford and is the Minister of State for Housing at the Communities and Local Government government department and attends Gordon Brown's Cabinet with effect from 28 June 2007. Born in Inverness, her father is Tony Cooper, former General Secretary of the Union Prospect, …
- Monica Moorehead
Monica Gail Moorehead (born 1952, Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is a frequent candidate of the Workers World Party, a U.S. left-wing party. An African American, she is a former school teacher, and has been a political activist since high school. She distributed newspapers for the Black Panther Party and subsequently joined the WWP in 1972. She rose to the national leadership in 1979. Her presidential campaign in 1996 received around 29,000 votes.
- Alexandra Kerry
Alexandra Kerry graduated from Brown University in 1997 where she studied Anthropology and Modern Culture and Media. In 2004, she earned an MFA in Directing from The American Film Institute. Her thesis film, ""The Last Full Measure"" debuted at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, won top honors at the Austin Film Festival, and earned her the ""Richard P. Rogers Spirit of Excellence"" award from AFI.
- Frank Borman
Frank Borman retired from the Air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. Borman's retirement from the Air Force in 1970 did not end his aviation career.