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Right Wing Bloggers Choose '25 Worst Figures In American History'
Gawker ^ | 8/14/10

Posted on 08/15/2010 12:08:21 AM PDT by Libloather

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To: Libloather

Barney Frank


21 posted on 08/15/2010 1:24:45 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Chump Obama promised "Change" and we got chump change.)
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To: onona

I agree with you. She’s killed as many people as Hitler or Stalin.


22 posted on 08/15/2010 1:44:20 AM PDT by wolfpat (Moderate=Clueless)
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To: wolfpat

There could easily be 200 names on the list of the 25 worst...


23 posted on 08/15/2010 2:00:19 AM PDT by Pusterfuss (Psalm 109:8)
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings, Katie Couric, The rest ot the far left Journolist Cabal.


24 posted on 08/15/2010 2:00:43 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (m)
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To: GATOR NAVY

I think Chomsky has done a lot of damage, warping college kids.


25 posted on 08/15/2010 2:14:56 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (I can see November from my house.)
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To: Libloather

Abraham Lincoln , not Booth


26 posted on 08/15/2010 2:21:12 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Maelstorm

We need a bigger list.

John Maynard Keynes
Harry Hamilton Laughlin


27 posted on 08/15/2010 2:31:23 AM PDT by NamVet71MP
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To: Pylon

Not if you’re a Mets fan


28 posted on 08/15/2010 2:34:07 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Nachum
Huey Long, Boss Tweed, Al Capone, LBJ, the Rosenbergs?

Criminals like Capone are debatable when you're talking about essentially political figures (and yes, Capone was a political figure, too, with his bribes, etc.); but if you start including common criminals like Capone and Hinckley, they get shoved aside pretty quickly by Lecter-esque figures like Ed Hein, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Gacy. And let's not forget monster-woman Carolyn Wuornos, the first female serial killer ever identified and captured.

But if you're just talking about political people, you'll see LBJ and the Rosenbergs are already on the list. Huey Long is a good suggestion. And I'd add Henry Wallace, Stalin's man in the 1948 election, and Ayers and Dohrn, James Earl Ray, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown, Stokeley Carmichael, Wm. Kunstler, Mario Savio, Tom Hayden, Donald "Cinque" DeFreeze of the SLA, Jim Jones, Alfred Kinsey, the dynamic duo of Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, Aaron Burr, Alan Greenspan, the Walker family, John Brown, Tokyo Rose, and David Koresh.

And while I'd disagree that Woodrow Wilson, Al Gore, and Harry Reid are significant enough to remain on the list (they tend to drop off from insignificance), I'd argue for Tom Daschle replacing all three of them, for having invented both the Obama campaign (he was its architect) and the government shutdown in 1995 that enslaved so many government check-cashers to the Clintons.

There are plenty of other candidates.

29 posted on 08/15/2010 2:47:20 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Libloather
One surprising omission is John Hinckley, Jr., the man who shot The Greatest Conservative of All Time, Ronald Reagan

Really had to fish for that one.

30 posted on 08/15/2010 3:03:24 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 ("Fanaticism is described as redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."-G. Santayana)
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To: Libloather

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31 posted on 08/15/2010 3:09:07 AM PDT by FrankR (It doesn't matter what they call us, only what we answer to....)
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To: Libloather

Walter Duranty


32 posted on 08/15/2010 3:33:26 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: Libloather

9) Timothy McVeigh (11)

He shouldn’t be on the list. In the grand scheme of history he did very little and it didn’t have a lasting national effect.


33 posted on 08/15/2010 3:40:46 AM PDT by Dayman
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To: lentulusgracchus

Woodrow Wilson should be where he is or closer to the top.

Federal Income Tax, Federal Reserve.

And a whole lot more. Wilson and FDR, neck and neck for worst President.


34 posted on 08/15/2010 4:01:37 AM PDT by truthfreedom
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To: wintertime

“I would have added John Dewey to the list.”

Yes, and Colonel House


35 posted on 08/15/2010 4:02:10 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: A_perfect_lady
I think Chomsky has done a lot of damage, warping college kids.

Ditto Howard Zinn. These people are poison.

36 posted on 08/15/2010 4:39:01 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Libloather

Actually not a bad list....and I can tell that with some of the names that this were some conservatives....and not some GOP Liberal Globlaists, who put this together

Nixon not a surprise....when you figure he pandered to Communist China...and signed all those environmental bills. Watergate was nothing compared to the Liberal Globalist nonsense Nixon got America involved in

Woodrow Wilson was obvious....Income Tax replacing tariffs....our first Liberal Globalist president


37 posted on 08/15/2010 4:47:48 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com. You either voting for JD, or voting for the Liberal...)
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To: Libloather

Tired of seeing Nixon on everybody’s bad guy list. The break-in was a minor incident. The cover-up would not brought down his Presidency if he was a democrap in the current news environment.

Overall, wasn’t that bad of a President. At least, not enough to make an all-time list.


38 posted on 08/15/2010 4:53:03 AM PDT by BushCountry (I spoken many wise words in jest, but no comparison to the number of stupid words spoken in earnest)
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To: truthfreedom

I think Sears should be on the list. If I am not mistaken Sears gave us withholding income tax from the pay check. Things would not have got so bad if people had to wright the check for tax every quarter.


39 posted on 08/15/2010 5:02:02 AM PDT by Total Package (TOLEDO, OHIO THE MRSA INFECTION IN THE STATE and the death of freedom)
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To: Libloather

I nominate William Taft. He pushed for the Income Tax. That cancerous amendment made the explosive growth of the federal government inevitable. It passed under his watch.


40 posted on 08/15/2010 5:17:31 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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