Wait a minute - Raygun won the Greatest American poll??

[SmileyBoy]

OK, I am living in a nation full of fucking MORONS. I feel like Fry in that episode of Futurama where he's the only smart person left on Earth, because the giant brain aliens sucked all the intelligence out of all the other humans.

I am living with a bunch of motherfucking idiots. Is ignorance REALLY that bliss??

[xray s]

1. Doesn't surprise me

After all, even Saddam Hussein said he liked Reagan...

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I'm thinking the same people in charge of this "election"

were running the one in November. To think that Reagan won out over Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Ben Franklin, FDR ... any one of millions of others more deserving ... is just some kind of blasphemy, in my mind.

[realFedUp]

3. too many people concerned

with which side the fork goes on....

Reagan was a tool, a despot, more concerned with
thank you notes than who died on his watch.

[UdoKier]

4. There was obviously an orchestrated campaign on his behalf

by the Limboids and their lemmings.

Getting a bunch of libs to go vote for FDR or JFK? Why bother?

But they have been desperately trying to rehabilitate that failed president's legacy for over a decade now.

[Devlzown]

5. I think it's just an ignorance of history.

If something didn't happen during the Kennedy administration or later, then they really don't know much about it (and frankly, don't care).

[jobycom]

6. Reagan, who

So the Greatest American was the man who launched his presidential bid from the small town known only for murderous racism in a fight against desegregation. A man who sold weapons to a nation that had declared war on us, and gave the money from those sales to terrorists in our back yard who were killing Americans and smuggling drugs into our country. A man who lied under oath about it at least once, since he gave two completely opposite explanations. A man who propped up the Soviet Union financially so he would have an enemy to justify his outrageous defense spending. A man who saw wages plummet during his administration to levels not seen since the Great Depression. A man who holds the record for the most investigations, indictments and convictions of his cabinet members of any president, including Nixon, Harding and Grant. A man who gave weapons to both sides of a war so that they could continue killing each other long after their normal ability to wage war would have run out. A man who created both Usama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.

If he's the Greatest American, then I'm sure George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King would be glad to be left off that list. Maybe number two should be Christopher Columbus, and three could be Charles Manson.

[oasis]

8. "Laying a wreath on nazi grave is no big deal, I'm President" said

the lovable world leader to himself.

[nicholieeee]

7. i believe their reasoning was

"well he just died, i can't very well not vote for him." take that and handful of pure dumbness and u got urself a recipe for reagan being the greatest american

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. It was rigged by the REPUBLICAN CORORATE MEDIA.

:hi: I never expected anyone else to win.

[DemonFighterLives]

10. That is incredible

Ole Dense Pack Ronnie. Poor guy was just a tool of BFEE though I'm afraid. I know my life changed during the depression of the 80's. I was thinking of farming- duh until I was told that there were too many mouths to feed there already.
That getting the hostages released trick was really something -not.

[Old and In the Way]

11. I think he won on the strength of his WW2 service.

Oooops, didn't serve. Let's try, "Mr. Gorbechav, tear down that wall". Ask any ignorant fan of Reagan what they remember about his terms in office...that's all they can regurgitate.

Oh, and let's not forget his Guns-for-Hostages and how he slept through Iran-Contra....

[ToeBot]

12. I'll assume he won because the vote count was divided between...

...the other GOOD candidates and he was the only choice for the right wing freaks.

[kurtyboy]

13. Hell, I voted for the Republican three times!!!

But his name was Abraham Lincoln!

Ronald Reagan wouldn't rate in my top forty, even if the list was restricted to politicians...well, I take that back--he was one helluva a Head of State (another name for national cheerleader), perhaps the best ever. But as Commander in Chief (lotsa dead in Lebanon), Chief Executive (a debt so deep we'll be living with it for years), and Lead Diplomat---ehhh, not so good...

I mean, his administration was the most corrupt since Nixon (also in the top 100--please tell me I'm dreaming!), with the likes of Poindexter, North, and Watt. On top of them there was un-indicted co-conspirator George H.W. Bush, who also made the sweet 90.

But what can you say about a poll that had Michael Jackson, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Cruise, and Clint Eastwood in the top 100? Did I mention Mel Gibson, Brett Favre, Michael Jordan, or Hugh Hefner? What about Dr. Phil, Steven Spielberg, Tiger Woods, and Pat Tillman? Can anyone truly understand the phenominal shallowness of the methodology and judging? I don't think so.

The name of the survey is misleading--it ain't the "Greatest American", its the "Most popular American among people who cared about logging onto AOL and casting three votes in a confusing format"

[kimchi]

14. It was on AOL.

No disrespect intended, but AOL has a lot of um..."moran" conservatives. They probably don't even WATCH the discovery channel. People who watch the discovery or history channels regularly tend to actually know history. And anyone who actually knows history would never vote for Reagan.

Ergo, the results should not be trusted.

[gatorboy]

17. Well that makes sense...

Because AOL completely sucks :)

[burrowowl]

15. How many Murikans

suffer from precocious Alzheimer's?

[progressivebydesign]

16. God.. people are stupid and easily led.

Reagan the GREATEST AMerican?? No shit? No way. The guy hadn't a fucking clue what he was doing. He killed so many through his ignorant and hateful view of AIDS. Most of his pals were fucking sent to prison (only to be pardoned later) for crimes that he should have been impeached for!! Greatest American? I can name, without a poll, the stupidest Americans.. they are the ones that chose him.

[moondust]

18. Raygun

O’ beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They’re beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king.

-Don Henley- The End of the Innocence