Ronald Reagan voted as "The Greatest American?"

[glarius]

America's choice was a personality boy......We had this vote in Canada a few months ago and our choice for "The Greatest Canadian" was Tommy Douglas.....the man who was responsible for bringing in our universal health care system in the 1960's....I'm not sure what this says, but it is an interesting difference don't you think?....:shrug:

P.S.....I hope this doesn't sound smug...I don't mean it that way.

[fasttense]

1. Raygun over Abraham Lincoln? No wonder

so many idiots buy into the brush regime. They think Raygun was a good president???? Let's see freed the slaves or spent so much money the USSR couldn't keep up. Raygun was just in the right place at the right time, nothing more.

[thinkingwoman]

2. what can we expect

when our public schools don't actually teach history?

We're an instant culture. If it happened more than a year ago we don't know anything about it.

[mopaul]

3. ronald reagan was the greatest human being to ever draw a breath

everybody knows it too

[Imalittleteapot]

4. Just another American Idol show. That Reagan beat Lincoln and

MLK is absurd. That GWB was even on the list is even more rediculous.

[enough already]

5. Bush ahead of Clinton?

It must have been a requirement to be on crack to take this poll.

[fryguy]

19. were people with brains polled?

or just republicans to come up with that result?

:puke:

[jmcon007]

6. Shit, where does that put the rest of us?

I smell Diebold.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. "Greatest American" was really a combo of "American Idol" literally and

figuratively and "The People's Choice Awards". Obviously a majority of voters did not consult their American history textbooks before they voted. They went on warm fuzzy memories of an avuncular leader who stood down the Soviet Union, make it "Morning in America" again, and made a lot of Americans rich by redistributing the wealth. I'm afraid to opine that most voters are ignorant or apathetic about the contributions of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and/or Benjamin Franklin. To my way of thinking, I'm glad that the ultimate vote wasn't for Oprah.

[deutsey]

8. Was he really? Not that I'm surprised

I knew he'd be "voted" in.

[peace frog]

9. *cough* Bullshit *cough*

[acmavm]

10. Sorry but all the smart people had something to do last night. Food

Network had its final for new great American cooking star.

When Reagan ended up in the final five I just had to laugh. That was all it took for me.

[JHB]

31. The idiot site wouldn't let me vote.

When I tried, the page came up blank, and said I had to update my software. Screw that.

[GOPFighter]

11. Reagan? Greatest American?

You have every reason to be smug.

[lynettebro440]

12. That's Interesting

I thought Ronald Reagan was the worst president ever (worse then even Nixon)until George W came along.

[htuttle]

13. A two-bit actor who couldn't remember what happened three hours ago?

Seems like an appropriate choice to me.

:shrug:

[koopie57]

21. what surprises me

is that Arnoooold didn't get any votes. Actually, I don't believe there was an actual poll done. Maybe people voted, but I think the decisions were made as the showed was formed.

[newportdadde]

14. I'm not surprised he won.

5 choices and only one RW type means all the freepers are going to vote in RR, its their only choice. Democrats however had really 4 choices so their votes were split.

[WePurrsevere]

17. That thought occured to me when I saw the results as well n/t

[earthside]

22. The Others Were Too Liberal?!

Indeed, only in Dick Cheney's America would George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin be considered too liberal to be the "greatest" American.

If you want to see some proof that the 'dumbing down of America' is part of the conservative, corporate agenda ... this is it.

[BurtWorm]

30. The greatest American president wasn't even a choice.

FDR vs. Reagan? No comparison.

[Toots]

15. I can name ten things right off the top of my head that Ben Franklin did

I can not think of a single thing Reagan ever did except for giving arms to a country that had declared war on America. America Home of the Brave.....

[fryguy]

16. broke the air traffic controller union

and then the named an airport after him??? oh the irony of it.....

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. He taxed service worker's tips.

Take that you Death Tax lovers.

[Auntie Bush]

18. Well I take offence!

Dont git me rong, but are you implyin that Connadions are smerter than us Amerikans...jist besuse we voted fer an idiot for hour leeder
and we inpeached the brilyent presedent who gav us hour best economie ever an hate tha womin who tryed to giv us helth care an loove the presedint whoo had Alzshimers an cudent remimber given arms to the contras an sterted the trikel down method witch maid alott of rich pepoles richer an created alott of homless peoples? Are yer implin wer stupid?

[rasputin1952]

20. Just off the top of my head, I can run a list of Americans, into the

hundreds, that beat Reagan.

FDR, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jefferson, Smedley Butler, Walter Cronkite, Martin Luther King, Woodrow Wilson, Wm. Clarke, Susan B. Anthony, Ben Franklin, Eisenhower, Dolly Madison, Truman, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Elizabeth Stady Canton, Edison....

The list could go on, why type it all out?

In fact, Reagan was not a particularly 'bad' president, but his faults were glaring. One ridiculous, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall", did not stop the Cold War. We outspent the Soviets and sent their economy into a tailspin...this goes back to the Truman legacy.
Reagan did nothing of any great importance. He was like a giant Valium for the nation, he slept, we slept, big deal...:shrug:

The mere implication that Reagan was "the greatest American", is revolting. Virtually everyone who goes out to work on a daily basis is more the hero than Reagan. Damn, Nixon was a better president as far as domestic situations are concerned, and T.Roosevelt was the antithesis of all that Reagan stood for. TR was no shining Liberal, but he was Progressive, and fought for the Common People. Reagan was a
bad actor, and a poor president. Give him a script, and he could deliver...but thinking that he had an original thought is absurd.

[cmd]

23. Really? I hadn't noticed.

I had to go back to work when he was president because my family could no longer make ends meet on one income.

[Vickers]

25. I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but we have some voting issues here

:spank:

[jmcon007]

26. Who took second? John Wayne?

[Toots]

29. I think it was Pee Wee Hermin

And it was really really close.

[Ronnie]

27. Well, I'm sure he got

Saddam Hussein's vote.

[Lowell]

28. Greatest American . . . asshole

He is still dead isn't he? I've been waiting for them to dig him up and run him again in 2008. He might have better luck than Asscrack, who couldn't even bead a deadman.