Thursday, June 12, 2003, 7:44:33 PM, you wrote: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/wtwta/2959462.stm >> >> Please vote...Homer Simpson is winning :( >> Homer Simpson, and Mr. T may be a sad commentary, but Lincoln and >> MLK were NOT more important than Thomas Jefferson (my vote)...pfft. >> >> The people who voted for Washington and Clinton are just idiots >> because they probably weren't joking.
LCL> Why? Clinton did a lot for the nation, while Washington's role is LCL> painfully obvious. Franklin D Roosevelt probably saved the nation LCL> from another revolution, this time a communist one, while Jefferson, LCL> with all his very obvious flaws wrote one of the most important LCL> documents at the core of the ideals of the nation. At least Ronnie LCL> Raygun, Bush nor Shrub were on the list. LCL> larry Clinton in retrospect was a decent president, not bad, not excellent. The greatest American though? He isn't even in that ballpark. There has been a lot of decent presidents. Henry Ford would rank higher on my list than either of those presidents, or Ben Franklin. Washington was a buffoon who only got to the the Constitutional Congress because he married a rich mans daughter, and was a terrible unqualified general who got a lot of soldiers killed. He wasn't good at anything but dressing in that stupid fancy coat. They picked the most harmless guy they could find, and made him president. Perfect for the job imo. Definitely not the greatest American. I could understand why someone would pick FDR...he just wouldn't be my choice. Definitely Top 10 though. Jefferson has always been by far my favorite, and he had very few faults as far as I'm concerned. One example...while president he examined every single patent application personally. Probably the last president to even step into the patent office, let alone intelligent enough to understand every invention. He was the President that told American citizens that the second amendment was their protection against the tyranny of their own government. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
