Reagan named ‘Greatest American’ ever
Former United States President Ronald Reagan has been nominated the ‘Greatest American’ ever in an interactive poll.
Reagan received 24 per cent of the vote beating fellow Republican Abraham Lincoln, who received 23.56 percent and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr, with 19.7 percent of the vote.
Former President George Washington was voted the fourth most popular American with 17.7 percent of the nominations.
Benjamin Franklin came in fifth receiving 14.9 percent of the votes.
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey and Franklin Roosevelt made up the top ten.
He was truly a great American – - but then I think there are many who are and don’t have a well known name. For instance those who serve our nation in the military – - police officers, fireman, nurses, doctors, teachers and so many others. Who is to say who is #1? As I recall it is “One nation…”, right?
I agree with your assessment. It should be “Greates Famous American”.
Ronald Reagan came above Bill clinton and thats important:grin:
don’t ever say Ronald Reagan and Bill blowjob in the same sentence again….it’s sacreligious.
Reagan, greatest American ever? Perhaps in my lifetime, but not “ever”.
Ted
wasn’t Martin Luther King a serial adulterer too?????
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I think so, but you have to admit that King was a great man. There’s a load of difference between a man like King who used passive resistance to advance the civil rights movement and a man like Jesse Jackson who uses the civil rights movement to evoke bribery.
Ted
I don’t have to admit that King was a great man….he was a flawed man, like anyone else, and attempts to deify him, quite frankly, disgust me.
That being said, I agree with you that his calling for non-violent struggle to redress wrongs was commendable, particularly when you compare it to the race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Watters, et al.
I think he would probably be ashamed at what the civil rights movement has become….a naked shakedown.
I also think he’d recognize black allegiance to the dumbocrat party as the modern day slavery that it is.
While I agree Mr. Reagan had a certain “down home” American Pie sort of “I tells ‘em like I sees ‘em” appeal, I don’t think he even belongs in the category.
If we’re limiting this to ex American Presidents Jimmy Carter’s humanitarian efforts alone far surpass those of his predecessors of any who’ve followed.
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Jimmy Carter? He may have been good intentioned, but the road to hell is paved with that. He absolutely stunk as a President.
It was only in the 2004 campaign that the Democrats even allowed Carter in the Convention. He was unwelcomed because of the negative stigma associated with his presidency. Later, he sold his soul to Terry McAuliffe and got a seat next to Michael Moore for his troubles.
9- You caught that too Ted:wink:
I think I was pretty clear Ted about his humanitarian efforts.
I’d prefer the man in the street promoting international goodwill and rolling his sleeves us (Ã la Jimmy Carter) any day rather than some B actor grand-standing as a politician and sugar-coating global ills (Reagan) while the A.I.D.S. epidemic never got mentioned and took its toll on millions.
Reagan had a chance to do something as a humanitarian yet chose to bury his rather overly-made-up head in the sand while people of real substance were in the trenches do THE WORK.
Great President? …not by my standard.
11-Many of us weigh his work with Habitat For Humanity against other things that make up Jimmy Carter.
I would not put him near this list.
That, to me, seems unfortunate peejz.
Both he and his wife put their “money where their mouths are”. They’ve given of themselves selflessly and endlessly and in a hands-on way to commit to the cause of ending global poverty. They embody that which makes mankind basically good in my opinion.
Beyond that they are God-fearing and have been role models to the institution of marriage and family. How anyone can minimize their quiet (emphasize quiet) role in the common good is simply beyond me. They seek no glory. They seek no acolades.
I’ll wager that when Jimmy dies we won’t be tortured by three endless days of television coverage of his dead carcas paraded through the rotunda at the Capitol in Washington and then flown to rest at his peanut plantation in Georgia. He’s just not that type of President.
Perhaps it’s a primal difference in what the two of us consider worthy of the term “greatness” peejz. But I prefer to stay with my candidate.
Oh hell.
Greatest Famous American??
My vote: Benjamin Franklin.
He was the embodiment of the Renaissance Man.
13- Well if I am not mistaken, Jimmy Carter has earned the right to and accepted the offer for a State Funeral. He will receive the coverage, just like the other Presidents have been given. As of last year, Clinton was the only POTUS that has not confirmed his funeral.
14- DING DING DING.. you finally got it! Good choice.
in the 1960s and early ’70s, when Ronald Reagan was governor, in a drive to cut costs and diminish the role of government, mental institutions were closed across the state, leaving thousands of psychotic people struggling to get by in urban neighborhoods.
he softened the decision by publicizing his plan to open ‘community-based clinics’ that would provide for those shut out by the closings.
it never happened and this was the birth of the ‘homeless’ in California. many people were hurt & that is Reagan’s California legacy for many
they weren’t the kind of people who had a powerful lobby for their cause, in fact they were the weakest among us. the voices that were raised in protest were easily ignored.
As a friend of logging, he said, famously, “If you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all.”
he was not known as a friend of the enviornment.
Great Americans do not skirt/break the law by selling guns in violation of federal laws. To say he didn’t “recall/remember”having anything to do with Iran-Contra, and smashing the Boland Amendment to bitsy pieces is a tough sell, for me.
I’ve heard others defend it, stipulating that he did it but was justified. Justification is poor or a great defense depending on which side of the aisle one stands on & how much benefit of the doubt one is willing to give.
he may be a symbol of the American Conservative movement, but the title “greatest American…” well, that just seems silly to me.
The greatest American? Nope. I’ll give it to anyone of the men who died in uniform fighting for me & you.
Glad you like my “antiquated” choice. Franklin was a Statesman, a Bon Vivante, and born perhaps centuries before his time.
With respect to Carter’s funeral … agreed.
I suspect he’ll opt out given his decided disinclination for the limelight. Just a hunch mind you.
Also- shiloh? GREAT POST… I mean great
“finally”? Peejz.
Come on man. It’s all opinion after all no?
I’ve “had it” all along.