A Midget Among Giants
Normally I don't pay much attention to "beauty contests", but when I saw the list of finalists for The Greatest American, I felt something had to be done. There is a midget amongst giants on the list.
The finalists are: Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and...(drumroll) ... RONALD REAGAN. The same Ronald Reagan who sent Donald Rumsfield to Iraq to sell Weapons of Mass Destruction to Saddam Hussein.
Please go to the Greatest American website at
http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican
and cast your vote for who YOU think ought to get this honor. You may vote three times (!) for your favorite, or you can spread your vote around. It's probably best, though, to concentrate on one person.
You probably figured that my favorite is NOT Ronald Reagan. Weapons to Saddam Hussein, Iran-Contra, burgeoning deficits, clueless leadership, more corruption than any other administration except the current one and possibly that of Ulysses S. Grant ... the list goes on and on.
I know and you know that the radical right wingnuts are going to try to stuff the ballot boxes for their hero. Let's counter that. Tell everyone you can to cast their vote and dilute the presence of the wingnuts.
Cast your vote for who you think is "The Greatest American" at
http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican -- time is short and the voting will end in just a few days.
Don't let them stuff the ballot boxes AGAIN!!!
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Posted by Farnsworth68 at 7:54 PM
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Spot on OPOV,
I suppose the same folks who are elevating Reagan to the same stature of the Country's greatest heroes are the same ones that bought the bone about WMD and the reasons for the Iraq mess.
Heyyyyy Farnsworth, it is time for you to learn some manners.
I think I like the term CHIMP better.
Did you know that since da Chimp has been dictator the US oil supply has droped? Yet the world supply had stayed several millions of barrels a day more than the demand. And the price has risen as if we had a short fall. Also, where the heck are the billions of barrels of oil they have been over producing for the past 5 years?
Da Chimp has caused the US to produce less oil and the world still has excess oil. I think we should skip over poor Ronnie and sign Bush up as the greates RIP OFF of all times.
I got my info here: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/ipsr/balance.html
Anonymous said...
Heyyyyy Farnsworth, it is time for you to learn some manners.
--Skip, is that you?
WTF revisionist history is written so fast these days. Reagan singlehandedly torn down the Wall of a imploding government. He defended the Western Hemisphere/Grenada (the nutmeg capital of the world) from communism. Trickle down economics never amounted to anything more than pissing in the wind.
Franklin gets my vote.
Unfortunately, Reagan won the popularity contest.
God damn it. Not that it fucking surprises me.
I guess it is true: Irony is Dead.
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