Posted on 11/22/2014 4:04:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The “Smithsonian” magazine compiled a list of the “100 most significant Americans,” and to the dismay of his fan base President Obama failed to make the cut.
Adding insult to injury, former President George W. Bush made the list. But it gets even better, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was also included.
The liberal website Raw Story bemoaned the very idea that the Smithsonian Institution “decided that George W. Bush is a more ‘significant’ figure in U.S. history” than the exalted one.
Curiously, the only redeeming qualification Raw Story named when mentioning Obama is that he was the country’s first black president — former President Bill Clinton notwithstanding.
According to the website, there were eleven former presidents included, with Bush listed seventh. The others in the “Presidents” category include: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald W. Reagan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, James Madison, and Andrew Jackson.
But no Obama.
The “100 most significant Americans” list was determined by the magazine by using data compiled by Google engineer Charles B. Ward and Steven Skiena, a professor of computer science at Stony Brook University.
The magazine took the data and broke it down into categories of ten, making its own determination of who would be included.
But no Obama.
Raw Story commented on the limited reaction to the list before duly dismissing it as “yet another pointless ranking.”
Then there’s this:
Mafia Hit Man Confesses to Killing President Kennedy
http://www.Newsmax.com/Newsfront/john-kennedy-assassination-confession-mafia/2014/11/20/id/608736/#ixzz3JrGzeiX2
Good point!
I suppose that’s true. Although it still would’ve been disgraceful if either had made it on this list.
It may be a pointless rating, but it certainly deflated the liberals’ balloons, didn’t it? For that is was worth the time and effort to read it.
It would be nice if he were in any of the photos from Dealey Plaza for that day, like the tramps.
One theory is that George H.W. Bush led a team from the Dal-Tex building and a teenage Dubya was on the sidewalk outside. No, I’m not kidding. LOL
I disagree with everything Obama has done but to say he hasn’t been more significant than Bush is simply incorrect.
Obamacare changed the nature of state / governed by inventing the governments power to tax inaction. That alone is more significant than anything Bush did. Significantly worse, but significant just the same.
I’m pretty well convinced that George H.W. Bush was in the CIA at the time. Beyond that, I don’t know.
Neither John or Samuel adams
No James dean Humphrey bogart or buddy holly
Actually Obola is proving to be very significant, but Raw Story wouldn’t like the reason why. He is definitely “fundamentally transforming” American into something dystopian.
Unless we want to count the way they significantly laid the groundwork for America’s loss of freedom and liberty. Can’t say that I’m very fond of Lincoln either, though that’s more a personal matter at this late date in history.
In a survey done by ExCTCitizen...Obama is rated worst president compared to Jimmy Carter, Millard Fillmore, WH Harrison and Richard Nixon.
You can also be significant by your contributions to evil. Mohammad makes such a list quite easily. Obama is certainly quite significant in this way as well. He is in many ways like FDR except he’s black and hates America.
Did the list have inventors? Philo T. Farnsworth invented electronic TV. The effect of that one invention alone can be seen be by whatever your reading this on. He got it all started.
If obie had class, even a little, he might have made the outlaw list. ;)
...former President George W. Bush made the list... former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was also included... others in the “Presidents” category include: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald W. Reagan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, James Madison, and Andrew Jackson... using data compiled by Google engineer Charles B. Ward and Steven Skiena, a professor of computer science at Stony Brook University.
Read the comments on the comment section of Smithsonian. Conservatives & Palinista’s are in full blown defense mode educating these stupid PDS libtards. They think she’s down & dead and she keeps on living just to piss them off! She is the Abe Vigoda on politics.
You mean Al Gore didn’t make it for inventing the internet?
Gov Palin should be at the top of the list.
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