Posted on 06/19/2005 6:40:18 PM PDT by mwfsu84
George W. Bush just missed the top five - he placed at #6.
They've got an interesting panel: Ann Coulter, Dennis Miller, Randy Jackson.
Top Five, not in ranked order...
Reagan, Washington Lincoln King Franklin.
He was also the basis for Mel Gibsons' character in The Patriot.
I'd pin THAT one on LBJ.
My Dad did work for the Government, often spending several years away. Didn't mean he wasn't still an American citizen.
It was an irreverent point.
A means of taking a stab at Clinton finishing beneath G.W. even in a television ranking. I certainly wasn't arguing he is deserved of the ranking. I believe I stated exactly that later.
Is that right? I have to watch that again.
I only heard the promos on this, and it included names like Oprah and Ali.
Influential Americans, yes, most certainly, and I will give credit where it is due...but I was groaning at the promos, wondering where the GREAT Americans where.
Glad to see this might actually be a real summary of Great Americans, not just a popularity contest after all!
That's not a bad list of finalists at all. They've really got to give it to G. Washington, the father of our country.
Maybe Southerners will vote as a bloc.
Hands down George Washington....First in war, first in peace and still first in the hearts of his countrymen 225 years later (let's hope). All the libs will split between King and Lincoln. I'm not bashing them two per se, but that's how it'll be.
Loved Washington ever since I played him in the 4th grade for a school report after visiting Yorktown.
I live in York County (home to a certain Washington victory), Virginia. You can't go wrong with a Virginian.
There were and are many great Americans but only one who if he didn't live would mean there would be no America in the first place.
You don't put talk show hosts on the dollar bill.
The worst of the top 25 was Lance Armstrong, not because he isn't a decent guy, but because he is sponsored by the Discovery Channel and I smelled a shameless plug...ie "Lance Armstrong Week on the Discovery Channel".
YH
Thanks for those numbers, voted and got through right away.
Without his involvement with the French and the English we wouldn't have got this country off the ground.
It's okay.
I didn't put a sarcasm tag so it's easy to take it differently without tone to decipher the intended meaning.
Agreed.
King started plagiarizing as an undergraduate. When Boston University founded a commission to look into it, they found that that 45 percent of the first part and 21 percent of the second part of his dissertation was stolen, but they insisted that "no thought should be given to revocation of Dr. King’s doctoral degree." In addition to his dissertation many of his major speeches, such as "I Have a Dream," were plagiarized, as were many of his books and writings.
I invite you to Google the many sources for these and other facts and contentions.
If they skewed it, they did so in typical liberal fashion, because they messed up.
They probably thought they had a balanced set of people, but in fact they had so few conservatives that half the country only had a few choices while the other half had most of the rest. So their vote was spread out while the conservative vote was more concentrated.
yes--very smart... and basically self-taught... ever hear of how he taught himself to write? personally, i don't want to choose between Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson as smartest American...
i don't think that's what he was about at all...
of all that Washington contributed, his greatest contribution was his rejection of being crowned king of the new nation... he would not hear of it... i believe that no one in history had ever turned down such an honor after winning a revolution... his accepting the title would have taken America in a totally different direction... only a great, principled person could have resisted...
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