Will there ever be a famous/infamous Atlas Forumite?

[Meeker]

I was interviewed on Nick News with Linda Ellerbee once. Does that count?

[Meeker]

I think Muon is the only one with his own Wikipedia page, if that counts for something

Link?

He is the mayor of some small city in Illinois, though I can't remember where off the top of my head.  IIRC its somewhere between Chicago and Rockford.

I thought he was a member of the Illinois State House.

EDIT: Yup, found it. I won't "out" him with a link, but if you do a little digging you can find it.

[Meeker]

I was asked to run for a State Senate seat once.  And for an at-large seat on county council.  I had to laugh both times.  I have good ideas, but no "fire in the belly".  I'm also not sure I want anyone rooting around in my past.  Hell, some of the things I have posted in these forums might be enough to doom a budding political career.

You think Obama's association with Jeremiah Wright was damning?  People would say, "You can't vote for JSojourner.  He's on the same forum as BRTD."  That would about do it.  <grin>

You know, JS, in my incipient senescence, I suspect someone who ran for office and let it all hang out in a calm way, about who we are and why, the good bad and the ugly,  and was that way about public policy issues as well, thoughtful, considered and open, would win office in a landslide, particularly more local ones. The thing is, is that most political types simply don't have a sufficient level of self confident and reflective  and indeed, dare I say it, moral, imagination, to even ponder the possibilities in their innermost fantasies, of just letting it all happen - to just do it!

Am I making any sense at all to anyone?

I've thought this for years but have never really mentioned it or heard anyone else say it. 100% agree.