Posted on 11/22/2014 4:04:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The “Smithsonian” magazine compiled a list of the “100 most significant Americans,” and to the dismay of his fan base President Obama failed to make the cut.
Adding insult to injury, former President George W. Bush made the list. But it gets even better, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was also included.
The liberal website Raw Story bemoaned the very idea that the Smithsonian Institution “decided that George W. Bush is a more ‘significant’ figure in U.S. history” than the exalted one.
Curiously, the only redeeming qualification Raw Story named when mentioning Obama is that he was the country’s first black president — former President Bill Clinton notwithstanding.
According to the website, there were eleven former presidents included, with Bush listed seventh. The others in the “Presidents” category include: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald W. Reagan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, James Madison, and Andrew Jackson.
But no Obama.
The “100 most significant Americans” list was determined by the magazine by using data compiled by Google engineer Charles B. Ward and Steven Skiena, a professor of computer science at Stony Brook University.
The magazine took the data and broke it down into categories of ten, making its own determination of who would be included.
But no Obama.
Raw Story commented on the limited reaction to the list before duly dismissing it as “yet another pointless ranking.”
If CONgress doesn’t start taking control pretty damned soon he will definitely make the LIST and he will be at the TOP of The LIST for DESTROYING AMERICA
was this just living people?
guess not
lol
Meet the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time
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Hillary, Sarah Palin, Bush 43 make the list and Zer0 doesn’t.
This makes my weekend......
Speaking of Lee Harvey Oswald, you just reminded me that today is November 22, the anniversary of the JFK shooting.
No Clinton, no Carter, no LBJ, no Truman, no Ike.
I disagree with the Smithsonian.
Obama is a significant figure in history, just like Gunga Din and Adolph Hitler. Significant can be one who is so evil that, he leaves his mark on history in a very negative way.
Perhaps there needs to be two lists.
One for the “good” significant people, and one for the evil and dangerous and big negative impacts.
The obvious exceptions for artists/outlaws aside, does everyone notice that there seem to be more people that could be considered ‘right of center’ than left? And that those on the left were highly damaging rather than contributing?
I heard the author on a radio talk show.
This first bullet missed, but they found a dent or something in Dealey Plaza that indicated its existence.
Do a google search on third bullet newsweek and you get the link, but it must be behind a firewall, because it doesn't come up for me.
(I was surprised there still was a Newsweek!)
Only because Deputy Barney Fife and PVT Pyle came out ahead of O’
Now everybody say it with your best over the top queer impersonation "He's not Black, he's more of a mocha!"
Almost neapolitan - brown, white and strawberry red. I say almost, because the commie red is kind of hidden inside.
Here is the list:
Trailblazers
Christopher Columbus
Henry Hudson
Amerigo Vespucci
John Smith
Giovanni da Verrazzano
John Muir
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Sacagawea
Kit Carson
Neil Armstrong
John Wesley Powell
Rebels & resisters
Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert E. Lee
Thomas Paine
John Brown
Frederick Douglass
Susan B. Anthony
W.E.B. Du Bois
Tecumseh
Sitting Bull
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Malcolm X
Presidents
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses S. Grant
Ronald W. Reagan
George W. Bush
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
James Madison
Andrew Jackson
First Women
Pocahontas
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hillary Clinton
Sarah Palin
Martha Washington
Hellen Keller
Sojourner Truth
Jane Addams
Edith Wharton
Bette Davis
Oprah Winfrey
Outlaws
Benedict Arnold
Jesse James
John Wilkes Booth
Al Capone
Billy the Kid
William M. “Boss” Tweed
Charles Manson
Wild Bill Hickok
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Dillinger
Lucky Luciano
Artists
Frank Lloyd Wright
Andy Warhol
Frederick Law Olmsted
James Abbott MacNeill Whistler
Jackson Pollock
John James Audubon
Georgia O’Keeffe
Thomas Eakins
Thomas Nast
Alfred Stieglitz
Ansel Adams
Religious figures
Joseph Smith Jr.
William Penn
Brigham Young
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Jonathan Edwards
L. Ron Hubbard
Ellen G. White
Cotton Mather
Mary Baker Eddy
Billy Graham
Pop icons
Mark Twain
Elvis Presley
Madonna
Bob Dylan
Michael Jackson
Charlie Chaplin
Jimi Hendrix
Marilyn Monroe
Frank Sinatra
Louis Armstrong
Mary Pickford
Empire-builders
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Walt Disney
Thomas Alva Edison
William Randolph Hearst
Howard Hughes
Bill Gates
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Steve Jobs
Athletes
Babe Ruth
Muhammad Ali
Jackie Robinson
James Naismith
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ty Cobb
Michael Jordan
Hulk Hogan
Jim Thorpe
Secretariat
Billie Jean King
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/meet-100-most-significant-americans-all-time-180953341/#XKhtAAKHMso1iWBZ.99
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I agree with you. I guess they don’t considerer him American.
Unless it makes it to a major news source, he'll never hear of it, like everything else.
contributing...
Contributions to the Smithsonian may have been a deciding factor in the selections.
Grant?
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