Discovery Channels "Greatest American". Who would you vote for?

Roxy66

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:30 AM
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Discovery Channels "Greatest American". Who would you vote for?

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/greatestamerican/top100/top100.html

I know I would vote for John Edwards!!!

http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican?page=nominees&subpage=edwards

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Roxy66

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:35 AM
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1. Between the nominees....I could also vote for Michael Moore

The list also includes Rush.......:puke:

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:38 AM
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2. Damn, I don't know - there are so many good ones

Ali, Edwards, Ray Charles, all the Kennedy's and so many more I admire on that list...

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Pachamama

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:58 AM
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13. Don't forget Martin Luther King...n/t

:patriot:

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Fri Jun-03-05 02:14 AM
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15. Yes, and Clintons and I'm related to John Adams

so I should include him...just too many...

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tinrobot

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:38 AM
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3. Abe Lincoln

He literally saved the country.

I wish all Republicans were like him.

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roguevalley

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:38 AM
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4. FDR and Eleanor

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KT2000

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Fri Jun-03-05 03:43 AM
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17. Good choice

I am gaining a new appreciation for FDR and Eleanor.
Having watched Bushco push fear on this country and then use it to exclude so many and further enrich the wealthy, I realize that his is really a simple manipulation. A selfish response to fear is really to be expected.

FDR and Eleanor refused to exploit the fear that was rampant in the country then. They led the way out of the fear by fighting the whole idea of selfishness. They founght for inclusions. They really were extraordinary people.

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Warren DeMontague

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Fri Jun-03-05 03:47 AM
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18. Yep. Second that. nt

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jayctravis

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:40 AM
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5. John Adams.

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Sgent

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:48 AM
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9. A bunch of idiots

are on that list....

The one's I happen to like are:

Einstien
Jefferson
Lincoln
Henry Ford
T. Roosevelt
Edison

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stopbush

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:42 AM
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6. I'll bet ya right now that Reagan wins it.

Something about Matt Lauer being involved tells me the fix is in.

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Roxy66

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:50 AM
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11. He won't if we make sure he doesnt......

I say we start spreading this across our vast network of blogs......power in numbers.....:patriot: :headbang:

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blue northern

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:46 AM
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7. Hope you don't mind a Canadian piping in, eh?

Muhammed Ali gets my vote.
He was such a great athlete.
He was a provacative & eloquent speaker.
He was fearless.
He touched people worldwide.
I wish he was able to take part in the current political climate with all the skills he once had.
He'd kick so much neo-con ass.

Ali Boombaye.

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katamaran

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:48 AM
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8. 4 Bushes.....

Betcha Jeb is pissed about being left off. And no Kerry? And what the HELL is Mel Gibson doing on there?!? Glad to see Hugh Hefner on there though...not sure why, but it makes me smile.

And for my vote...hmmm....Jefferson, Lincoln, FDR, Carter, Eisenhower, MLK, Carter, Bob Hope, Ali. And Helen Keller and Mark Twain because they're my distant cousins.

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:49 AM
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10. Who cares?

Most Americans have little or no notion of history and probably the greatest American is long since diseased. After all, there are far more dead Americans than live ones.

A 225 year popularity poll is not only useless but also doomed to be subjectively misguided. For irony's sake I hope John Kerry is on the list and gets 51% of the votes.

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Roxy66

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Fri Jun-03-05 01:52 AM
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12. Gee...cheer up. :(

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queeg

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Fri Jun-03-05 02:14 AM
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14. heres a few not on the list that ought to be

Edited on Fri Jun-03-05 02:23 AM by queeg

Alfred Thayer Mahan
Linus Pauling
Larry Flynt
Ernesto Miranda
Margaret Sanger
Robert E. Lee
Jonas Salk
Richard Feynman
Juan Trippe
Bart Simpson

These are people that made leaps of imagination from what was, to what could be

Man that list really sucks. in fifty years is anyone going to remember martha stewart---no---and Laura Bush? WTF---if you want a first lady try Lou Hoover --at least she was smart.--its got every pres for the last 30 years, but who cares?---and five or six movie directors without Orson Wells or John Ford---yeah, right. --and Condi Rice? ---if ya need a Sec of state, how bout William Henry Seward---dude bought Alaska for chump change.

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HornBuckler

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Fri Jun-03-05 02:42 AM
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16. Wait Wait

Tom Cruise?!?!?! But No Bob Dylan
Obviously Lame

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Warren DeMontague

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Fri Jun-03-05 03:48 AM
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19. Jerry Garcia nt

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GeorgeGist

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Fri Jun-03-05 04:13 AM
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20. I didn't see any Native Americans on that list

eom

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6000eliot

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Fri Jun-03-05 04:29 AM
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21. I'll vote for Cesar Chavez

But man that list is loaded down with RW idiots, isn't it? Condi fucking Rice? Are they kidding?

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BlueIris

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Fri Jun-03-05 04:35 AM
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22. That list kind of sucked. A lot.

Edited on Fri Jun-03-05 04:37 AM by BlueIris

Quite a few notables missing. I looked and looked and couldn't find my favorites. Am I blind, or did they leave out Harry S. Truman? 'Cause that's asking for trouble.

Edited to add: Yes, apparently, Iris is going mad. HST was there.

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Fri Jun-03-05 04:35 AM
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23. Emma Goldman

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Fri Jun-03-05 04:44 AM
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24. I'd have to go for MLK Jr.

And :wtf: Michael Jackson? Dr. Phil? Sam Walton? Give me a break!

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