Posted on 09/01/2014 1:30:18 PM PDT by freepertoo
I work about a mile from the Smithsonian museums and like every good Washingtonian, I never visit the famous sites. Today, being Labor Day, and having nothing else to do, I decided to go the Smithsonian Museum of American History. In one area they had a poll, taken by the museum visitors (how many thousands would that be?), voting for the greatest president in history. George Washington came in first, Abraham Lincoln second, Barak Obama third. I always thought "my jaw dropped" was just a fanciful expression, but my jaw DID drop. Reagan, by the way was 4th.
Those po folks don’t count.
I was talking about those who rule us and those who serve them.
You’re right, then!
Honestly, people in (and around) D.C. rarely visit the sites. I went today because I was bored. The sites are great, the museums really wonderful, but they’re familiar to the residents and people who work there. I visit the museums once very 10 years or so. I jog around the Washington Monument every few days and don’t even “see” it anymore (it’s just part of the scenery). So, people voting in this poll are probably from all around the country.
And some staffer has to stand there every night clicking in the Obama votes...
My cousin lives in DC (Georgetown) so we visit occasionally.
Her husband, a prominent attorney, (now retired) was affiliated with the Clinton Crime Family.
We don’t talk about politics, LOL.
Does anyone believe for a second that if he came in 37th, that the employees wouldn’t put him at third, regardless? Let’s face it, we all know how diligent federal employees are at paying their taxes, so the last thing anyone that works at the Smithsonian needs is a nice tax audit.
Georgetown is beautiful. Probably because Metro doesn’t go out there!
I bet he does. Or paid some agency to get the number up there... remember those thousands of fake twitter followers politicians had a few years ago?
That’s a stretch, I think. I doubt anyone is “fixing” the poll. Of course, what do I know?! Just seems a stretch to me.
“The Smithsonian propagandizing...”
Nothing new there. Remember when they had their asses handed to them when they got all wee-weed up about the Enola Gay mission?
Who casts votes doesn’t matter. Who counts votes matters. Dems know this fundamentally well.
LOL keep the riff-raff out.
On my last trip I saw a flash mob of black youts strip a beverage truck clean in 60 seconds. Just down the street from the Verizon Center.
Lots of contrast in DC.
Government employees and their union members, school field trips of brainwashed students from local educational institutions where the parents are the first category, similar field trips from more distant schools of the surrounding communities of other first category dependents, all select their patron Obambi. The rest of the votes for Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan come from the tourists and other visitors. . .
The contrast is amazing. Embassies can be on one street, the slums just a block or two over. It’s really quite an amazing city. Breathtakingly beautiful, yet go a little further and you get real heartbreaking ugliness and crime. Totally mixed up city, in more ways than one. But the parts that are pretty are VERY pretty.
That makes great sense.
All of the Presidents, I think. I didn’t get close enough to see the names, just the result.
I see you’re in Maryland. If you’re curious to see it, it is right next to the exhibit on Presidential deaths (I THINK it’s the second floor, if I remember correctly).
I can see him maybe FOURTH, but not third.
1. Reagan
2. All others but
3. Clinton/Carter
4. Obama
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