... according to this poll of conservative bloggers that included me.
I think this group list of greatests came out much better than the group list of worsts. I was especially glad to see Norman Borlaug receive enough votes to appear.
This is the list I sent to RWN:
Norman Borlaug
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Franklin
Madison
John Quincy Adams
Reagan
Edison
MLK
Frederick Douglas
Noah Webster
Henry Knox
Lewis & Clark (That's two, so I suppose I cheated there.)
George Mason
John Adams
Eisenhower
Phyllis Schlafly
Davy Crockett
Neil Armstrong (Representing all those who helped to build the space program during its infancy.)
I had a very hard time narrowing down to twenty. (At least one of the ones I didn't cut is purposely controversial. Have to have at least one like that in any list.) I had to cut a lot who I would have just as easily left on the list. Others I'd like to have included are Patrick Henry, Daniel Boone, Calvin Coolidge, George Patton, Henry Ford, Thomas Paine, the Wright Brothers, Ethan Allen, Andrew Carnegie, Sam Walton, and Bob Hope.
Who would be on your list?
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
25 Worst Figures in American History...
... according to this poll of conservative bloggers that included me.
I did not vote for these:
23) Saul Alinsky (7)
23) Bill Clinton (7)
23) Hillary Clinton (7)
19) Michael Moore (7)
19) George Soros (8)
19) Al Sharpton (8)
13) Al Gore (9)
13) Noam Chomsky (9)
13) Richard Nixon (9)
13) Jane Fonda (9)
13) Harry Reid (9)
13) Nancy Pelosi (9)
2) Barack Obama (23)
1) Jimmy Carter (25)
Apart from Carter and Obama, there aren't a lot of votes backing those candidates. I'm guessing that the votes for other historical figures were split, and that led to current, better-known figures winning the vote. Forty-three bloggers responded, so while seven of them did vote for, say, Bill Clinton, thirty-six of them did not. I would be interested to see a full list of every figure that received votes.
People I voted for who did not make the list:
Robert Hanssen
John Marshall
Boss Tweed
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Bull Connor
Roger B. Taney
Huey Long
George Wallace
Suge Knight
Some of those are purposely provocative choices. You can also probably tell that I especially dislike machine-style politics. I failed to cover criminals. Major figures in organized crime could be on a list like this. There were also, sadly, many more Presidents who could have been on it.
Who would be on your list?
I did not vote for these:
23) Saul Alinsky (7)
23) Bill Clinton (7)
23) Hillary Clinton (7)
19) Michael Moore (7)
19) George Soros (8)
19) Al Sharpton (8)
13) Al Gore (9)
13) Noam Chomsky (9)
13) Richard Nixon (9)
13) Jane Fonda (9)
13) Harry Reid (9)
13) Nancy Pelosi (9)
2) Barack Obama (23)
1) Jimmy Carter (25)
Apart from Carter and Obama, there aren't a lot of votes backing those candidates. I'm guessing that the votes for other historical figures were split, and that led to current, better-known figures winning the vote. Forty-three bloggers responded, so while seven of them did vote for, say, Bill Clinton, thirty-six of them did not. I would be interested to see a full list of every figure that received votes.
People I voted for who did not make the list:
Robert Hanssen
John Marshall
Boss Tweed
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Bull Connor
Roger B. Taney
Huey Long
George Wallace
Suge Knight
Some of those are purposely provocative choices. You can also probably tell that I especially dislike machine-style politics. I failed to cover criminals. Major figures in organized crime could be on a list like this. There were also, sadly, many more Presidents who could have been on it.
Who would be on your list?
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