I hope you're all suitable embarrassed

“What a crock.”

“Suitably - even”

“Dang!

Where'd you learn English?”

“he is proper

sounds sexy”

“Focus on the matter in hand Vio ;op”

“Just so you know Y2, my parents named their previous dog (English Airedale terrier) "Margaret Thatcher." Someone else in the family had already used "Ronnie."”

“She certainly was a b-itch Treebait :o)
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“How did Reagan, Bush, and Clinton beat out FDR?”

“Quote (maybe unfairly) attributed to then Governor of Cailfornia Ronald Reagan:

"Well, if ya' seen one redwood, ya seen 'em all. So, let us cut them all but one."”

“This is indeed one of the saddest commentaries on American culture (or lack therof) I've heard in a long while. Not that Ronnie won necessarily, but that Oprah & Elvis were even in the top 100? Wow, what in te he!! were the voters thinking?

Top 10 greatest Americans
1 Ronald Reagan
2 Abraham Lincoln
3 Martin Luther King
4 George Washington
5 Benjamin Franklin
6 George W Bush
7 Bill Clinton
8 Elvis Presley
9 Oprah Winfrey
10 Franklin D Roosevelt”

“Kids these daze wont larn nuthin!”

“No Jefferson?”

“Oh come on HPM, he was just Archie Bunker's neighbor. Why would he be most admired?”

“lol”

“Reagan was a Great American.”

“Sure he was SS, but the greatest?”

“Y2, who did you vote for, Oprah?”

“WTF?

You mean John Glenn isn't the Greatest American?

I read his book, and I thought he was.”

“I agree with Wanderer. Given all the folks on the list, Elvis and Oprah in the top ten makes it a joke (I like Oprah and listen to my elvis CD's - but...)”

“In typical American fashion if it didn't happen five minutes ago no one remembers what happened. I would say that this century Ronnie and FDR should probably be neck and neck, with MLK in the mix, but of all time, it is tough to say. FDR and Reagan had alot in common each had an evil to conquer and both persevered.”

“Holey crap!!

Somehow, I'm not surprised.

What about Brehznev, he and Ronzo were both great union-busters?

FDR had to fight a real war and Ronnie had to fight a pretend war.”

“FDR didn't have to fight liberals who wanted to destroy the presidency. That's a pretty serious enemy.”

“I like President Reagan a lot. I think as time goes by his legacy will grow even greater as history bears out his choices. But I do not think him the greatest American. I certainly have to question this list when, as others have pointed out, Oprah Winfrey and Elvis Presley are in the top ten. It certainly makes me wonder how they defined "greatest". I mean, Elvis was a great entertainer, but all he really did was make rock and roll accessible to white suburbia when it gets down to it. Oprah is certainly a rich and famous and powerful woman in the entertainement industry, but all she has really done is proven that you can have shows about left handed lesbian midget albino Inuits and the men who love them and make enough money to become a "legitimate" TV show host with A-list stars on her couch. Also, let us not forget, we have no idea who the polled or how.”

“That's correct NOProb, FDR had to contend with right-wingers who wanted to destroy his presidency.

A cabal of corporatists/fascists tried to get Smedley Butler to head a coup against FDR in 1933.

"It's a sordid tale of fascist intrigue by some of America's most famous corporate and political families (including members of FDR's own party) which was deliberately covered up by both the only Congressional Committee to investigate the plot, and also by the leading media outlets of the day including the New York Times. And the truly scary part is that the plot might very well have succeeded if not for the bravery of a single, progressive leader: Marine General, Smedley Butler."”

“"I spent 33 years...being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism....
"I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1916. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City [Bank] boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street....

"In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested....I had...a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, promotions....I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three cities. The Marines operated on three continents..."”

“...corporatists/fascists ...

Interesting term. Actually sounds like a contridiction to me, but what the hey. You liberal freaks like to blame every thing on one or the other so I guess I'll add it to my lexicon.”

“"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is a merging of state and corporate power."

Benito Mussolini”

““"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is a merging of state and corporate power."

Benito Mussolini”
MarkO
10:16:20 AM
6/29/05
So you're going to trust a fascist (and one of the least intelligent ones at that) and his Spin on making fascism more palatable? Wow.”

“"So you're going to trust a fascist (and one of the least intelligent ones at that) and his Spin on making fascism more palatable? Wow.”
Harlock
10:21:09 AM
6/29/05

The answer to your weird question is NO !!!
I am anti-fascist.

You are tryin' to make a dollar outta fifteen cents, my friend.

Butler refused, he too was anti-fascist and loved the Declaration Of Independence and Constitution.”