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Ronald Reagan Named 'Greatest American' Ever
UK Today ^
| jun 27 2005
| Allison Harris
Posted on 06/27/2005 6:42:03 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
"Matt Lauer looked like his dog had just died when he announced the results!"
I was just going to ask. LOL! What a weenie.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:54:39 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Hatteras
Typical BBC! Reagan is just 'most popular' (those stupid voters, they couldn't possibly know whats good for them!)
To: gopwinsin04
Yes, he was a great general.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:55:39 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(AMERICAN WARS SET MEN FREE)
To: mikeus_maximus
George Washington was in a class of his own.Yes!!
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:55:56 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(George Felos and the Three Schiavoteers --at your service to provide death-dealing testimony)
To: gopwinsin04
I voted for Reagan. Not that I think he was better than Washington, but if Washington had won everyone would have shrugged. Reagan winning makes news.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:55:57 AM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: dfwgator
Agreed. He just let us breathe in peace.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:56:14 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(AMERICAN WARS SET MEN FREE)
To: OldFriend
Actually Eisenhower was known as a do nothing president Turns out that he cultivated that impression very assiduously. More recent scholarship has shown that Ike was in fact very engaged, especially (and naturally) on the foreign policy side of things. And very wily, too.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:56:18 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: gopwinsin04
Considering that Elvis and Oprah were higher in the list than Thomas Jefferson, this has to be the dumbest popularity contest ever.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:56:26 AM PDT
by
Blzbba
(Let them hate us as long as they fear us - Caligula)
To: Mr. K
To: gopwinsin04
Should have been Washington. Then Jefferson (since he wrote the Dec. of Ind.)Sad that people don't know history.
To: mikeus_maximus
Shows the state of American education. George Washingotn was in a class of his own. Ronaldus Maximus is right up there, though, after Lincoln perhaps. Agree. Any such contest, even lame ones like this one, should only be about who's the 2nd greatest.
Washington is Number 1 by a mile for anyone the least bit familiar with our history.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:58:38 AM PDT
by
Ditto
( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
To: gopwinsin04
Ooohhhhhhhhhh. I can just FEEL the communists from Pyongyang to Cambridge, MA, writhing in agony.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:59:17 AM PDT
by
TimeLord
(A whale fetus is a whale; a human fetus is a blob.)
To: Poser
"Ditto. Without Washinton, Reagan would have been a British subject." Without Franklin we would all have been British Subjects as well. Without his diplomatic efforts with France and England during the fight for Independence the Colonies would never have survived the war.
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posted on
06/27/2005 6:59:55 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
To: Rodney King
"I voted for Reagan. Not that I think he was better than Washington, but if Washington had won everyone would have shrugged. Reagan winning makes news."
Which just goes to illustrate just one of the reasons why these type things are so useless.
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posted on
06/27/2005 7:00:28 AM PDT
by
Gone GF
To: kipita
Ronaldus Maximus lives on in eternity!
To: antiRepublicrat
Agreed. While I like W he has yet to finish his debt to his country. Reagen paid his in full. Madison, Jefferson, and TR should be listed up there.
To: gopwinsin04
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posted on
06/27/2005 7:01:14 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
To: zarf
Why is that? RWR WAS among the greatest Americans, IMHO...
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posted on
06/27/2005 7:01:56 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
To: Poser
Without Washinton, Reagan would have been a British subject. OTOH, Reagan changed the history of the world in facing-down communism (along with John Paul II and Thatcher).
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posted on
06/27/2005 7:02:06 AM PDT
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: biblewonk
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posted on
06/27/2005 7:02:46 AM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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