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I can't believe it. This thread actually survived 23 posts before the Obama bashing cartel constantly crawling the forums for new threads to try to hijack found it.
Let me explain my choices. Since when is the loser celebrated in the case of the confederate general. He lost. Do Germans go around celebrating Adolf Hitler?
Chistopher Columbus de scovered something already here. He thought it was India,and besides the Vikings dicovered it first,but they get no credit for it.
Mlk,I explained it before. We have mlk day,fine. But what about Malcolm X and Medgar Evans?How about civil rights leaders Day?
Marilyn Monroe..I know she was an actress who had an affair with a president,why is she still pop in pop culture ?
Albert Einstien invented a terrible bomb that could wipe out mankind. Oh what about giving Enrica Fermi credit?
And ill add another. In psych 101 I hated Sigmund Freud's theories and stages of development, seemed a little to sex crazed to me and why are his ideas even in a college book?
Ronald Reagan. The Cold War would have ended favorably regardless of what he did or didn't do. The die was cast by the time he took office in 1981. His other "achievement" of cutting taxes was a joke. The only people who really benefitted were the wealthy. The poor saw their social security taxes go up while their income taxes went down. It was a wash for them. I suppose he did project a "sunny image", but that's about his only accomplishment in eight years. Oh yeah, by the time he left office its documented he was suffering from early stage Alzheimer's Disease. It was a literal crime for him to serve more than one term in office.John F. Kennedy. Is constantly cited as one of the top ten Presidents in office. His legislative program had fallen on hard times. Southerners blocked all his attempts to get civil rights passed. He was a fine speaker, but in terms of substantive accomplishments--there are very few. He benefitted from a good economy. His assassination in office turned a rather ineffective President into an immortal hero.Bobby Kennedy. I often hear people claim he would have been elected President if he hadn't been assassinated. In reality, there was little chance of this. He was a very liberal, leftwing candidate at a time when the country was becoming sick of liberal causes and the civil rights movement. In fact, its even questionable if he would have won his own party's nomination for the presidency.Henry Kissinger. Is regarded as one of the greatest diplomats in the world. In reality, his biggest claim to fame were the Paris Accords which "ended" the war in Vietnam. In reality, two years after these accords were signed, North Vietnam invaded the South and took over the whole country in just a few weeks. Kissinger took approximately 4 years to negotiate this worthless treaty while approximately 25,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam Conflict. If this man is a "great diplomat" than I pity we never have a bad one in office.Alan Greenspan. Was treated as an economic superman because of his tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Greenspan did some good, but presided over deregulation that made the banking and financial crisis possible. Greenspan knew better, but raised no objection when George W. Bush set out to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in this country in 2001. In one step, Bush blew a pattern where the USA had been running budget surpluses for 6 years and converted those into deficits every year afterwards.I'll stop here. However, the USA has seen its share of inept and incompetent people in public office. What is sad is when they are not recognized for what they are.
Gandhi. He only succeeded because the Brits because Britain wasn't as Barbaric as Belgium or Spain was in their colonies.
That plus India had a population of 350 million so how was a few hundred thousand or even a few million Brits going to control India without it being seen as colonial dictatorship, which owing to WW2 was unpalatable and unjustifiable.
Christopher Columbus
What did he discover? The natives of the Americas already knew about these lands. Leif Ericsson had already preceded Columbus to the Western Hemisphere.
Ronald Regan
He is spoken of as a Saint by Republicans, and every Republican tries to paint themselves as a Regan Republican.
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