Catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages on facebook or twitter or email us. You. Y good morning to thank you for joining us on this christmas morning. Talking about your political heroes for 2013. The question is up on the Facebook Page. We will also be reading your tweets this morning. This question posted on the Facebook Page last night. Already over 1200 response to it. Allen writes in on the Facebook Page, Elizabeth Warren is the best senator we have up there. Taking on the big tanks and Student Loan Debt crisis. Sayslow that tony a few other heroes being pointed says ted cruzle or rand paul is her hero. The phone lines are open. We will be taking your calls on the subject. Edward snowden, the subject of plenty of news of late. Here is the piece by amy goodman in the Albuquerque Journal this morning. Calling snowden an amendment hero. Also, some news on edward. Nowden, and im the ap yesterday Edward Snowden will speak directly to britain and the televised christmas message today stressing the importance of privacy and urging an end to government surveillance. The Television Channel said tuesday the prerecorded would be the First Television broadcast since he arrived in moscow. We will be talking about this with you in the first 45 minutes. Your pick for your political hero of 2014. Tell us who it is and why. Starting with bill in cleveland, ohio. Caller good morning. I am picking joe delisle sheol. I think he is the brush of fresh air. I think we need a different focus. A little bit more inclusive, not only economy but society. Is goinge direction he in. At least what he wants to go in. Host did you know more about him before 2013 . Caller no, i did not. Host what specifically did you like about him . Is populism. I think it is the way the country should go. For the callou from cleveland, ohio. Jessica up next from misery on the line for republicans. Good morning. I have two heroes. I chose rand paul because of the emphasis on civil liberty. I love all the 9 11 conspiracy callers on your show. Either and whyt you are electing them as your hero. Caller both because of the Civil Liberties act. I feel like the 9 11 guys are drying drawing attention to you. That is why i am such a strong republican. Thank you for calling in this christmas morning. Taking your comments in the first 45 minutes on the subject. Talking about political heroes. This call from rasmussen. Thought was your most influential person in 2013. Edward snowden getting eight percent. Hope frances leading with 23 . The president below the pope at 21 . David from sarasota. Morning. Ood my political hero would be very sanders. Sanders. The second choice would be Elizabeth Warren. Hopefully more people both democratic in the next election. Talk about very Sanders Barry sanders. How did he first come to your attention . Caller i has been a lot about him in the news and have read about him in the paper. Always seems to be protecting American Workers and Social Security, which i think is important. Host what would you like to see in 2014 . What theyeep on doing are doing. I would like for him to run for Higher Office but i did not think there is an equal like or house ofsenate representatives to really get things done. Vote for more democrats. Higheralking about office. Elizabeth warren, you do not think she would run . She would help Hillary Clinton leaned more left and get some more policies going that way. You for calling him this morning. Appreciate it. Twitter post coming in on this subject. Carroll writes in Phil Robertson for speaking truth. Vivian writes in that Bernie Sanders is my political hero because everything he does is for the people. Looking at the twitter pages as we talk about this. Phone lines are open. Back on our Facebook Page, Christopher Green right in Benjamin Carson is his political hero for speaking truth to left this racism. Benjamin carson this morning. He wrote a piece in todays wa shington times. Then carson has a frontpage piece in the commentary section on the feeling behind Merry Christmas. I wish of good cheer is not is his piece. D nick in fairview, tennessee. Caller the man who stood out to me was ted cruz. He substantiated the tea party people. The status republicans are for big government. Me. Gentleman tobe a stand up to all but destroyed that romney. He was a good man. Whatderstands politics, should is just a form of marxism. I call it the antiamerican corruption act. Various other aspects. Carson is a good one. These men are for freedom and cannotleft thesies understand that. They are people that create wealth by their own principles and abilities. Host we just showed a bit of filibuster. M his we are also interested in your thoughts on your political heroes and what you think the future will be. Culpeper virginia on the line for democrats. Good morning. Good morning. Why, he pushed this healthcare law through for people that do not have health care in the country. Republicans do not mind if you lived or died. He pushed health care through for people who do not have health care. It is all about the heart. This man did things for the American People who did not have health care. Job, and you go to the hospital and die, it is what you get. You have a choice. You can apply for health care for life and no one can take it from you. Have a good holiday. A lot of assessments of the president past year coming out in reports this past week. T obamas approved mel Approval Rating matches alltime low that he fell to last month. Does this Approval Rating remains unchanged at 56 , an alltime high. Theou want to read more on survey, it is from cnn politic or blog. A lot of assessments of the president in the paper. Here is the new Zealand Herald from earlier this week. A column, the land of the free end state of change. Despite a resounding 2012 reelection victory, obama had a guy your year. That is a piece in the new Zealand Herald from december 21 if you want to read that. We are talking political heroes this morning. Getting your thoughts and comments. James on the line for democrats. Good morning. I am a democrat. I think they should try to do what they can do. People need the insurance. The republicans do not want to do nothing about it. They could have done better than they have done. They do not let nothing go through. The democrats are trying to do what they can do. Host look ahead to 2014. What do you want to see out of the president . Caller i am retired. People. For the without the poor, you cannot make the rich. That is what president kennedy always said. Are the onesns that have messed things up in the country. Continue on doing what they have to do. I wish you all the best. A call from delaware this morning. A few other comments from the Facebook Page. Moeller. Of justin lunday writes in any who kisses off the republican party. We will look at your tweets and Facebook Post this morning. Taking your calls. Kathleen is up next. Good morning. People have said so many great things about Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Saying a Elizabeth Warren runs, was pushing Hillary Clinton ibly into apologizing just want to call the political decision to vote for the iraq war resolution. Maybe we will still get an apology out of or her. My two favorite heroes are Hillary Mann Leverett in flint leverett. Both in the Bush Administration. A both stood against the invasion of iraq. Hillary has negotiated directly with a ron iran. Former middle east analyst. They have a website. Best ate tried their reforming the American Public of the facts. Are they both here now . Caller i think he teaches at the university of pennsylvania. Their website, they stand against any kind of military action based on facts. Informing the American Public about the fact that they have a right to enrich uranium. Think they have done so much work on trying to let the American Public know about the facts. Hearings euros to me. They are republicans or were republicans. They are standing up against another unnecessary action. You brought Hillary Clinton up. What her prospects might be in 2014 and beyond. Here is the iowa democrats. 55 point eight Percentage Points according to real clear politics. Our stations with them a credit officials in iowa reveal not all takeem hope she will another shot at the white house, just as eager to explore whether the options reveal themselves. What do you think the other options are out there besides Hillary Clinton . Warren i think elizabeth , the fact that she will i and will bed up economically supported by wall street. I think she gives us a real option on pushing hillary a little bit more to the left. More towards being right. Standing up on special interest. Issues, hillary is a real humanitarian without giving away things for free. Findreignpolicy issues, i a very serious war monger. Very aggressive. I do not think we will get much much difference between her and cheney. Foreign policy i think she is far too aggressive. I think if Chris Christie runs, i think there would be democrats that would go in that way. Host Richard Rogers again on twitter taking your comments all morning. Aubrey in to concorde, new hampshire. Good morning. Caller my political hero for 2013 is barack obama for bringing us health care. I am 62, and i am telling you it is a great thing. He inherited a mess and stuck to principles. He said he would try to make changes. Political climate, economic climate. He has been fighting that principle. When you talk about 15 of the population, back in the 30s living under poverty versus the same number today, three times as many People Living poorly. It is even higher than that now. , one ofthe health care the gentlemen called and said it will take away the freedom. Accident inortunate canada. I was in the canadian hospital for over a month. I did a lot of business in canada and can tell you from experience that the health care enjoy helps their them their system. There you have it. Thank you very much. Fish and sam writes in facebook, Melvin Campbell writes 0 that is Melvin Campbell on the Facebook Page this morning. I want to point out a few other headlines as we continue to take your calls on the subject of political heroes. One of the stories leading the toers today is the u. N. Set boost force in south sudan. The situation in south sudan and have the community is reacting. The u. N. Security Council Voted unanimously tuesday to nearly double the number of these keepers to more than 1400. Thatng swift action threatens to become a fullblown civil war. That is the Washington Post take on it. Here is the New York Times on the same subject. We will keep an eye on that situation for you. For about the next 25 minutes or so we are asking you about your political hero of 20. Phone lines are open. Waiting. Evans caller thank you for taking my call. It is political stretching it a little bit, but basically the king of the vatican and the head bishop. I would have to say the new pope has a new philosophy of things. I have great expert patients if the mafia does not knock him off. R someone else i am not even roman catholic. In a sense i am catholic but have a lot of comments on the negative side. Shortd like to make a comment of almost the reverse. A lot of promise. ,n new jersey we had a man here a lady just a few collars back made a comment about christie. Some of the things he says and does i shake my head. In many ways we could have Chris Christie as the new president. Then we could have a obama being the Vice President. Then we could sell off america. The 13 colonies could go back to england. New york city going back to amsterdam. Florida, puerto rico back to spain. California, nevada. Basically Chris Christie some people think he is the star. Some of the things, i am kind of wondering is that the way we really want to go jacob do you consider that a political position, where would that be more of a religious position . In my office base by saying the pope . Interested in who your political figure could be and how you define it. Here is the story from usa today. A shift create a template for u. S. Politics. Hope transit since the election in march. Has made quite the . Unfunded unfettered capitalism and saying that his place to pass judgment on on gays. The story if you want to read more of it. Thecent piece from Huffington Post. That is by nancy codding. That is in the Huffington Post if you want to read more of her piece. We have about the even if left to take your thoughts on your political hero. Harold on the line for democrats. Good morning. Good morning. I wanted to Say Something about the poll numbers. President obama is my hero. He holds his temper. When i was in the army, i was taught to respect the uniform. Have shown so little respect and regard for this man that people all over the world are starting to have no confidence and respect in him. What about the hypocrisy of that . The man is under attack 24 hours a day. Sunday Morning Program are filled no one black ever on the programs to speak up for him. The rest of the people always find ways to find fault with him. How is that fair . Host what do you think the president could in can accomplish in his last year in office . He should stop trying to be nice to these guys who do not respect him. They are not going to help him, they are going to undermine him. He will be the last black president. This country is on the road to failure. If this guy does not step forward and up for the poor and stop trying to kowtow to these people, he is not the guy i voted for. Host harold from st. Louis, missouri, this morning as we talk about your thoughts on your political hero of 2014 ash 2013. We will go to the republican slime now. George waiting from florida. Good morning to you. Good morning. My hero was a state legislature here in lord of. He is the one that wrote stand your ground. When people say that was a racial bill, it has nothing to do with that. So many black people voted for it also. They also want to be protect did. I would like to say one thing, butlease dont cut me off it seems to me from watching c span over the past 20 years, and especially over the past five, i. Ee adulations from color i am really scared of that. There is so much power in the inner cities. If you took away that part of the poll, i think obama would be down in the 20s. I do not see people voting with sensibled or creating decisions. I see them voting for color. To turn it around now and do the same thing by using discrimination of color, to me, it seems frustrating. I know him, a good man, responsible man. That is all i have to say. Florida. Rge from on the twitter feed today, gary wright in my heroes are the syrians willing to be free of tyranny as we creep to more andrnment and control intrusion, they fight for freedom. Gary on the twitter page this morning. Living with no limits rigwrites we have about 10 minutes left in this segment to talk about your heroes the morning. The Postal Service has been cleared to raise state prices to offset the recession. The Washington Post. The cost available right at three cents. The largest rate hike in 11 years. The stamp price increase of . 49 will be in effect for two years, agency ae struggling temporary infusion of extra revenue intended to recoup losses suffered during the economic downturn the between 20082011. Much more on that in the days, we, and months. Were are talking about your political hero of 2013. Todd from davenport, iowa. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for being on life. Bradley manning has to be on the list for 2013. Thomas drake, the whistleblower from the nsa should also be on the list for 2013. I first started watching season in when he made a phenomenal i encourageh everyone to search for thomas drake at the National Press club. A very gripping, chilling survey of what the situation is. Before snowden, there was drake. Snowden. Pired drake exposed the nsa trailblazer program. Going through additional challenge channels. He did. He did try to report it through official channels to no avail. Chelsea manning. I am hopeful manning will see the light of day of freedom. One other comment i would like to make the woman who approached the topic of the conspiracy theorists who call in, i applaud her bringing that up. I know many of your folks that post the shows are sensitive about that topic. I would encourage producers to think a