About that whole "Greatest American" poll

[mrmitchell]

Well, that's what you get when AOL runs an election.

[Zkribbler]

[KrazyHorse]

Why? Who won?

[mrmitchell]

http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican

They'll probably post the result online in a few minutes.

Has everyone with a computer or a phone gone f*cking crazy?

[KrazyHorse]

Stop being an ass and tell me who won.

[KrazyHorse]

I'm going to guess it was the Gipper, from your reaction

[mrmitchell]

Well come on geniuses, out of Franklin, Washington, King, Lincoln, and Reagan, which one would I be pissed off about?

Spoiler:

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

[JohnT]

[GePap]

That's why a poll of the Plebes is not actually worth anything.

Historians will know what to do with the Gipper.

[JohnT]

<-- sits back, grabs popcorn...

[GePap]

My God, what a moronic list, and what a moronic set of priorities....

[Commy]

Where's Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky? I don't see them on this list? What the ******* bloody **** is ******* wrong with theses people?

On another note, I don't see any Latinos or African-Americans, so I guess blacks, hispanics, and commies are all on the same level in the eyes of D.C...

[mrmitchell]

JohnT, you cannot laugh. OPRAH WINFREY beat out Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I know you may not like ol' FDR because he did so much for the conditions of all the workers under your iron capitalist fist, but it pretty much makes the list lose all worthwhile value that him nor Bill Clinton nor any artist at all are in the top 5.

[GePap]

Ah, given that Lenin and Trotsky were Russians and Stalin Georgian, they would hardly be on the "100 Greatest Americans" list, now wouldn;t they?

Hmm, and Marthin Luther King is African American...did you even look at the list?

My question is, why is Einstein on that list? his greatest ideas came to him in Europe and did not immigrate to the US until an older man in the '30s. Certainly great American physicists could have made the list, though I greatly doubt your normal AOL user has a clue who they are.

[GePap]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
JohnT, you cannot laugh. OPRAH WINFREY beat out Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I know you may not like ol' FDR because he did so much for the conditions of all the workers under your iron capitalist fist, but it pretty much makes the list lose all worthwhile value that him nor Bill Clinton nor any artist at all are in the top 5.

Why would Clinton be in the Top 5??

FDR certainly a valid contender- take out Reagan and put FDR in and you have a very valid list, but CLINTON? He shouldn't be in the top 5 anymore than Reagan.