The 100 Greatest Americans revealed

[Buck Birdseed]

I'm surprised how many current politicians made that list.

[MikeH]

That aspect is very un-European.

[Jaguar]

I like how, nestled in between Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln, is Rush Limbaugh.


I also like how Einstein, Edison, and Eisenhower share a page with Tom Cruise and Ellen Degeneres.

[Laertes]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
I'm surprised how many current politicians made that list.

Given the presence of Rush Limbaugh, the Mrses Bushes (is that a Hedge of first ladies?) etc how come that Lieutenant-General of Florida did not make it, who "helped" with the "count" in 2000.

[Dis]

these lists just make you want to pull all your hair out. I refuse to look at it.

[Drogue]

They have both Bush's, Clinton's, Kennedy's and Roosevelt's wives in, but not the majority of people who were actually president. That's a bit messed up. Not to mention having Michael Moore and Rush Limbaugh. Political commentary now makes you great?

[Dis]

I have a lot of mixed feelings about FDR. He wasn't a very compassionate president. But perhaps he was a realist. He knew that he had no chance of stopping the lynchings in the south. And then the jews...

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Dracon II

72 : ROBESPIERRE

.... beats Sartre, Monet and Baudelaire?

The Pimpernel must be rolling in his grave

Actually, I'd probably agree. What Robespierre accomplished was very difficult, incurred a lot of personal danger, including his death, and it's affect in the modern age leaves France as a democratic and free nation. Yes, about a thousand people died by guillotine to enforce it, but that wasn't largely due to Robespierre - many of the executions happened after he lost control of the committees and led to him being executed. He wasn't as much of the extremist as people believe. I'd have put him higher.

[Drake Tungsten]

I also like how Einstein, Edison, and Eisenhower share a page with Tom Cruise and Ellen Degeneres.

And Eastwood...

But where the **** is Jack Nicklaus?!

[Drake Tungsten]

Muhammad Ali -
Maya Angelou -
Susan B. Anthony -
Neil Armstrong -
Lance Armstrong -
Lucille Ball -
Alexander Graham Bell - (if he's actually American and not Scottish or Canadian or something)
Barabara Bush - WTF?
George H.W. Bush -
George W. Bush -
Laura Bush - WTF?
Andrew Carnegie -
Johnny Carson -
Jimmy Carter -
George Washington Carver -
Ray Charles -
Cesar Chavez -
Hillary Clinton - WTF?
Bill Clinton -
Bill Cosby -
Tom Cruise -
Ellen DeGeneres - WTF?
Walt Disney -
Frederick Douglass -
Amelia Earhart -

[Drake Tungsten]

Clint Eastwood -
Thomas Edison -
John Edwards - WTF?
Albert Einstein - not that American, but
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Brett Favre - WTF Wisconsin?
Henry Ford -
Benjamin Franklin -
Bill Gates -
Mel Gibson - is Australian
Rudy Giuliani -
John Glenn -
Billy Graham -
Alexander Hamilton -
Tom Hanks -
Hugh Hefner - WTF?
Katherine Hepburn -
Bob Hope -
Howard Hughes -
Michael Jackson -
Thomas Jefferson -
Steve Jobs -
Lyndon Johnson -
Michael Jordan -
Helen Keller - WTF?
Jonh F. Kennedy -
Robert Kennedy -
Jacqueline Onassis -
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Rush Limbaugh - WTF?

[Drake Tungsten]

Abraham Lincoln -
Charles Lindbergh -
George Lucas - WTF?
Madonna -
Malcolm X -
Dr. Phil - WTF?
Marilyn Monroe -
Michael Moore - WTF?
Audie Murphy -
Richard Nixon -
Barrack Obama - WTF?
Jesse Owens -
Rosa Parks -
George Patton -
Colin Powell -
Elvis Presley -
Ronald Reagan -
Christopher Reeve - WTF?
Condeleeza Rice -
Jackie Robinson -

[Drake Tungsten]

Eleanor Roosevelt -
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Theodore Roosevelt -
Babe Ruth -
Carl Sagan -
Jonas Salk -
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Austrian and
Frank Sinatra -
Joseph Smith Jr. - WTF Utah?
Steven Spielberg -
Jimmy Stewart -
Martha Stewart - WTF?
Nikola Tesla - wasn't he Russian
Pat Tillman - WTF?
Harry Truman -
Donald Trump - WTF?
Harriet Tubman -
Mark Twain -
Sam Walton -
George Washington -
The Duke -
Oprah Winfrey -
Tiger Woods -
The Wright Brothers -
Chuck Yeager -

[Jon Miller]

who came up with this list?

JM

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by Laertes
Quite a few non-Americans (Gibson? Why not Rupert Murdoch? Einstein? Tesla? Schwarzenegger? Why not Greg Norman? he lives in America. John Cleese lives in America, put him in.

Just wondering when the rest of the world (and a good portion of America) are going to understand that this country was built by immigration. Not born here does not mean not American.


...Original topic --> by and large this list sucks!!! Where the Bleepity bleeping bleep bleep is Bob Dylan?!!!!!!