Eleanor Roosevelt is the current front-runner in the race to earn a spot on the soon-to-be redesigned $10 bill, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released Wednesday. Posted on 08/05/2015 11:49:36 AM PDT by Zakeet
Eleanor Roosevelt is the current front-runner in the race to earn a spot on the soon-to-be redesigned $10 bill, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released Wednesday.
The poll showed that more than one in four Americans (27%) are hoping that when the U.S. Treasury Department unveils the new design, the former first lady will be the woman featured.
African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman is the second most popular choice with 17% of the vote, followed by Native American explorer Sacagawea with 13%.
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An unattractive Socialist on the $10 bill is a natural choice for the present government. Bales of unused Eleanors will join tons of Sacagewea dollar coins in storage.
Alexander Hamilton on the $10 is still fine with me.
Everything else about Tubman is great, but siding with Brown was awful, and should disqualify Tubman, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
What about Sacagawea or Betsy Ross?
I have a huge objection with just about any politically active woman of the late 19th and early 20th Century, since they were pretty much all prohibitionists.
Or, why not Maria Goeppert Mayer, who worked on the Manhattan Project and was the first (and I think only) American woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics?
How about Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Probably. At least Wikipedia doesn’t mention her support of either John Brown or Prohibition, and she probably did as much as anyone to end slavery in the US. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a powerful indictment of the US for its institution of chattel slavery.
And she certainly did more good than Eleanor Roosevelt, who was just the lesbian wife of a liberal, narcissistic President and a meddling socialist.
Harriet Tubman is even uglier than Eleanor Roosevelt.
That was one cool woman! Really cute and a dead-eye with any firearm. She's get my vote on this.
I would much prefer Dolly Madison, wife of President James Madison.
When the British were marching on Washington, Mrs Madison refused to leave the famous Landsdowne painting of George Washington.
She was noted for her social skills and thereby greatly contributed to her husbands popularity.
Dolly practically invented the duties of the First Lady. All First Ladies, with the exception of Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama would follow her lead.
And she was North Carolinian by birth.
Lets give the Tar Heels some recognition!
Oh, HELL NO!
Good choice, I’m for Margaret Thatcher.
Ha ha—as if *that’s* gonna happen.
How about a female porn star to stimulate the economy with hard currency.
Excellent choice too. The whole idea of replacing the man who established a national currency and saved the republic from financial collapse for passing political correctness is ludicrous. But they should at least select someone other than a first lady who cuckolded her husband with another woman and had a face that could stop clocks. And no Hillary, I’m not referring to you.
What, a vote, or Oakley on the bill?
I suspect THEY will choose the ugliest woman they can find on the far left. Maybe even Madam Mao.
Oakley!
Would be a hoot, of course...
Mother Bickerdyke would have been alright. She did a lot to help soldiers.
Abigail Adams would be good too. Nice picture of her.
I just read a number of biographical sketches about her. She was wonderful in many ways. Anne was true to her family and her husband, soft and well-spoken, intensely patriotic, modest, and a "way over the top" marksman. She was also rather rather pretty. Those leftest hags couldn't hold a candle to her.
Just who decided Eleanor Roosevelt? Who’s making this decision?
Once Hamilton is gone, no matter who they put on it, I will never accept another $10 bill as long as I live.
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