A president worthy of Mount Rushmore

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 06/07/04 | Leader

[The Great RJ]

There a lot of us in the Mt. Rushmore state that agree Reagan's image should be added to the Shrine of Democracy. P

[The Great RJ]

There a lot of us in the Mt. Rushmore state that agree Reagan's image should be added to the Shrine of Democracy.

[ScottFromSpokane]

I hesitate to post this, but here goes anyway:

Mount Rushmore is not simply a national monument, it's also a work or art, by Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln. It would no more be appropriate to add Reagan to Mount Rushmore than it would be to, say, paint Linda Vester into the Mona Lisa.

I say we find Reagan his own mountain. If it'll bring the Dems in on the deal, we can put FDR up there too--the American Presidents who defeated the great homicidal ideologies of the 20th Century.

[VaBthang4]

There it is, I say we do both. Put FDR & Reagan up on Rushmore.

[texasflower]

I agree with you Scott.

[Bommer]

If it'll bring the Dems in on the deal, we can put FDR up there too--the American Presidents who defeated the great homicidal ideologies of the 20th Century.

FDR Teamed with the man who helped create the mess that it took Reagan to end; lovingly referring to Stalin as "Uncle Joe!" HE thought more of Stalin then he did of Churchill. Screw FDR! Its a miracle that this country survived with him in office.

[ClearCase_guy]

perhaps the greatest of the post-war epoch

My God! No one else even comes close!!! "Perhaps" indeed!!

[jonascord]

Wilson made the mess, FDR had to clean it up by propping up and feeding Stalin and allowed the USSR to create the Iron Curtain. Why should either be be honored for having screwed up? We are still paying for DNC vote buying schemes.

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[alloysteel]

I would settle for the portrait of Ronaldus Magnus on the next edition of the $20 bill, replacing Andrew Jackson.

Those of us who were not fans had to tolerate FDR on dimes, and Ben Franklin was bumped from the fifty cent piece for JFK.

[GSlob]

I would object to FDR - we still have to live with his toxic legacy, like Ponzi Social Security.

[kittymyrib]

You really want to honor a president who tried to pack the Supreme Court with his cronies, who didn't see WWII coming, and who after the war, gave half of Europe to the tender mercies of Stalin? No thanks. FDR had no vision for the future and should never be spoken of in the same breath as Ronald Reagan. Pres. Reagan deserves his own mountain. That would just KILL the lefties!

[Eastbound]

"..we can put FDR up there too.."

Great idea! A contrast between the one who traded our Republic for a democracy, and the other who attempted to change it back.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"If it'll bring the Dems in on the deal, we can put FDR up there too..."

...shriek...!

I take it you haven't read Ann Coulter's "Treason"...

[I-ambush]

I believe he should go on the $1 coin the government has been trying to get us to use for several years. One reason that the coin never caught on was that the average American thought that either Susan B. Anthony or Sacagawea deserved the honor (not to mention that no one really wanted to look at SBA's sour puss every time he went to buy a newspaper). With Reagan on the coin, it would be a hit, and Reagan would be in good company with George Washington.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I'm with you.

FDR did more to bugger up post-war internal and external politics for America that just about anyone I can recall. Our bloated federal mess is but one example. The expansion of the Soviet state was another. I could go on.

Carve up a mountain for the Gipper, but name the public restrooms there in honor of FDR.

[Eastbound]

Well, I'd say something, but I have an urgent need to go to the FDR at the moment.

[Denver Ditdat]

Is there enough suitable granite left on the mountain to carve President Reagan into Rushmore? I seem to remember reading years ago that Borglum's original vision for the four presidential busts had to be altered to accommodate faults discovered when his sculpting began, and that the existing monument looks the way it does because of those faults. If so, it would seem that adding anyone to Rushmore would be impossible.

[Nucluside]

Right you are!! Coulter's Treason places FDR squarely where he belongs: On the dung heap of history. It's too bad we can't bring him back to TRY him for treason...and shoot him!!