Who's the Greatest American? — Page 2

Wow the Republican smear of FDR has worked really quickly if he didn't nail #1 by a mile. Absolutely positively the greatest President, he (and his wife Eleanor, who really was a sort of co-president) did so much it's almost impossible to understand it all.

Equal rights, educational reforms, nutritional guidelines, caring for the elderly, the national highways, rural electrification, women in the workforce (and government)...gosh it looks silly to even try to list all that and I didn't even scratch the surface.

A rich man who cared about the poor, a sick man who radiated health & confidence, FDR was truly a remarkable man, someone who in many ways created the world we live in today.

Sadly, he was a Democrat, so the Republicans won't rest until his reputation and accomplishments are dragged through the mud.

Updated On: 6/20/05 at 04:46 PM

JFK?????

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"Sadly, he was a Democrat, so the Republicans won't rest until his reputation and accomplishments are dragged through the mud."

I certainly don't believe that is true. I think people just don't know all that was done in those years.... they know he did "stuff" but what exactly? So, they aren't going to rank him first. Washington and Lincoln are who people are familiar with (and with just reason because they absolutely rock, as well)
A smear campaign? I must have missed that.
Plus, most people should know there has been quite the political re-alignment since the 30s.

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Definitely a smear campaign, Millie. FDR was the antithesis of everything today's Republican Party advocates, and it absolutely drives them up the wall that he was such a blazing success.

Oh Barbie.,.....I like that idea

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They had to put someone in there that represented the last 40 years. That would be Reagan.

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With all the wonderful individuals one that list who have contributed to the world, Jonas Salk, Abe Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, JFK, Einstein, the choice is very difficult. I can't decide between Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson. Maybe I'll just go with Tom Hanks. Such great Americans, each and every one.

Wait, John Adams is not on there at ALL?

LORETTA SWIT

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Well, I am a foreigner, so maybe I am missing something, but I am REALLY surprised that JFK is not on this list ! I always thought he was very important and very beloved in the USA !!!

JFK was top 25. But then so was Lance Armstrong(????).
The list has some truly stunning inclusions:

Mel Gibson?
Tom Hanks?
John Wayne?
Tom Cruise?
Brett Favre?

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6 through 25 (alphabetical):

Muhammed Ali
Lance Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Walt Disney
Thomas Alva Edison
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Bill Graham
Bob Hope
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
Rosa Parks
Elvis Presley
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oprah Winfrey
The Wright Brothers

Top 5:
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ronald Reagan
George Washington

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Updated On: 6/21/05 at 08:56 PM

Come now, Einstein may have been one of the greatest minds in history and Salk may have created a vaccine that eradicated polio and saved billions of people over the decades since, but could either them look good dancing around in white briefs and Ray Bans? There is just no comparing.