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 countrys 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.
How could they miss all that Obama has done for the world.
Today we have many things we can attribute to him.
but I’ m coming up blank on anything positive.
If Obama is even a legitimate occupant of our White House, he accomplished the "first black" milestone in the first three seconds after he took the Oath of Office (when he finally made it through that correctly). Has Obama done anything else positive (pretending for the moment that being 'first black' is relevant to doing a job) since those first three seconds? Anything?
0bama was beat out by a horse! Hah!
With a stroke of his infamous pen Obama will assure himself of a #1 position on that list.
Wow, you’re so right. All of a sudden it all comes back to me. I had just finished a P.Chem exam and was getting ready for the Thanksgiving holidays.
The next day I was driving in Mobile, AL (it was raining) and heard on the car radio that Oswald had been shot. At that time we were still thinking that the Russians had something to do with JFK’s death.
:)
I’d agree with maybe 60-70% of the names. I’d drop most of the criminals and several of the “first ladies” and several of the athletes. For example, Ty Cobb was a great player, but how “influential” was he?
Er...Christopher Columbus, who never set foot on American soil, and Henry Hudson are on the list.
The point of the list is:
100 most significant Americans
Palin and Bush=> place of birth: USA
Bozo's place of birth: Kenya, Africa
Is there a town named "Kenya" in USA?
duh.
Must be the horns.
He was a terrible public speaker.
Apparently the committee overlooked Mr. Ed. He was quite fluent in speech and in intelligence.
Carter deserves it way more than Obama.
Then where is E. Howard Hunt and the Cubans?
That’s my favorite theory — anti-Castro Cubans run by E. Howard Hunt were the shooters.
Needless to say I was shocked.
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