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Most Overrated Historic Figure(s)

Posted on 04/20/2013 7:55:55 PM PDT by MNDude

There are probably many people in history who have received more credit than they deserved. Excluding any US Presidents in the past century (that would be too easy), what three historic figures do you think are the most overrated?


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1 posted on 04/20/2013 7:55:55 PM PDT by MNDude
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MLK


2 posted on 04/20/2013 7:59:31 PM PDT by proudpapa (A school is supposed to be a safe place!' Yeah well so is a womb!)
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FDR. The Doofus on the Dime!


3 posted on 04/20/2013 8:00:07 PM PDT by cynwoody
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Karl Marx


4 posted on 04/20/2013 8:00:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Abraham Lincoln.


5 posted on 04/20/2013 8:00:52 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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Einstein is one.


6 posted on 04/20/2013 8:00:57 PM PDT by Paradox (Unexpected things coming for the next few years.)
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Che. Another idol to border jumpers.


7 posted on 04/20/2013 8:01:23 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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Amelia Earhart


8 posted on 04/20/2013 8:02:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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JFK - A mediocre President


9 posted on 04/20/2013 8:02:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Excluding any US Presidents in the past century

Mohammed
Napoleon
Andrew Jackson

10 posted on 04/20/2013 8:04:44 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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Overrated: the list is endless.

Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Bill AND Hillary Clinton
Obama
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Earl Warren
Lindsey Graham
John McPain
Abraham Lincoln
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Bob Casey, Jr.
Sandra Day O’Connor
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Adlai Stevenson, II
Susan Collins
Olympia Snowe
Chris Christie

Really, it can be a long list, too numerous to read.


11 posted on 04/20/2013 8:04:53 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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Woodrow Wilson, loved by liberals but...
1. Racist
2. Big government
3. Ran as the peace candidate in 1916 knowing that we were going to go in; the delay cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
4. The “great peacemaker” couldn’t make peace with Henry Cabot Lodge and compromise to get the treaty past.


12 posted on 04/20/2013 8:05:20 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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Jackie Kennedy.


13 posted on 04/20/2013 8:05:48 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton


14 posted on 04/20/2013 8:06:16 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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He had his finer points and was not “bad” per se, but James Madison, “Father Of The Bill Of Rights.”

He was no such thing, he was a mere go-between. Madison gets the acclaim due a man who actually did the work and who paid a great price personally and in historical regard for his dogged insistence.


15 posted on 04/20/2013 8:06:41 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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Romulus and Remus


16 posted on 04/20/2013 8:07:47 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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Mitt Romney.


17 posted on 04/20/2013 8:08:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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Pope Hilarius.


18 posted on 04/20/2013 8:09:08 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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+1


19 posted on 04/20/2013 8:09:10 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: Huskrrrr

Probably could add any Kennedy to the list.


20 posted on 04/20/2013 8:09:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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