Posted on 11/23/2014 9:09:39 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
How much does Thomas Paine matter? More than Harriet Beecher Stowe? Less than Elvis? On a par with Dwight Eisenhower? Would you have answered these questions differently ten years ago? Will you answer them differently ten years from now? In a culture so saturated with information and so fragmented by the search possibilities of the Internet, how do we measure historical significance?
AWWWWWW... Fearless Reader didn’t make the cut.
We like our list.
We are keeping our list.
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Smithsonian? Wow - they are pretty far left these days....think they’ll come out with a “mistakes were made” correction?
Secretariat made the list!
This is strange. The Smithsonian’s board of directors and it’s biggest donors are most certainly liberals. The list was probably compiled by a group of historians selected by the Smithsonian, and we know most historians, as most academics, are by and large liberal. I can see some people getting their NYC/Boston/DC lefty cocktail circuit invitations being revoked.
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald W. Reagan
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
James Madison
Andrew Jackson
Even Clinton didn't make it... His wife did though. LOL
Barry's problem is, well, first you gotta be an American to even be considered.
Hillary made the list and I did not.
There will be hell to pay.
Bill Clinton didn’t make it either...but Hillary! did.
Yeah. But it’s nonsense.
Liberal propaganda.
There is no reason Muhammad Ali or Georgia O’Keefe should be on that list.
Right now Obama’s “fundamental transformation” is ongoing and succeeding. They like it to fly under the radar as much as possible.
A whole horse made the list, but the horse’s a$$ didn’t...
It sure is. Billy the Kid is on the list. So I'm guessing that when the Smithsonian says "significant", they really mean something more like "interesting".
Lincoln first?? Since when??
My favorite picture. The true face of these imposters.
I was shocked it wasn’t JFK myself considering the liberals idolatry of him.
Obama should have been listed with the outlaws. He stole more from the treasury that all the others stole together.
This is really the story of two authors getting some face time. Wonder if they had a big, fat grant to do this.
Raysisum!
But is he AMERICAN? Maybe the Smithsonian knows something we only suspect...
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