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View Poll Results: Your vote for greatest american
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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George Washington
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12.35% |
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Thomas Jefferson
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3.70% |
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Abraham Lincoln
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11.11% |
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Benjamin Franklin
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Theodore Roosevelt
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3.70% |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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3.70% |
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Woodrow Wilson
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0% |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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2.47% |
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John F. Kennedy
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1.23% |
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Ronald Reagan
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6.17% |
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Bill Clinton
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6.17% |
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Harry S. Truman
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1.23% |
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Andrew Jackson
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1.23% |
Bill Gates 
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1.23% |
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Rockerfeller
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1.23% |
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Malcom X
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Thomas Edison
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6.17% |
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Alexander Graham Bell
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The Wright Brothers (orville and that other guy)
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3.70% |
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Steven Spielberg
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Marylin Monroe
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2.47% |
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Hilary Clinton
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3.70% |
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Charles Lindburgh
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June 15, 2003, 14:34
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Settler
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 dissident at least get a flower in your gun 
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June 15, 2003, 14:34
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We should just be glad nobody has voted for Andrew Jackson so far. I haven't voted yet, I'm undecided.
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June 15, 2003, 15:51
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martin luther beating george washington and benjamin franklin? what a horrible circumstance. self loathing liberals need to stop voting w/ their affirmative action ballot.
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June 15, 2003, 16:22
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Man, they sure got our number.  
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June 15, 2003, 16:37
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People... it's Martin Luther King, OK?
Uhm, out of the list*, the easy winner is Thomas Edison. But the greatest American, the one who impacted the way we live our lives more than any other single man (other than perhaps Edison) is Henry Ford... whom, shockingly, didn't even make the list.
I mean... Marilyn Monroe?  Steven Spielberg? Hilary Clinton?
*And since "greatest" wasn't defined, I assume this is left up to the individual poster to define greatness?
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June 15, 2003, 16:48
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Prince
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Hulk Hogan is missing.
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June 15, 2003, 16:54
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so is Bush
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June 15, 2003, 16:57
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Where's Duffman?
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June 15, 2003, 18:44
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Prince
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Mr. T, far and away.
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June 15, 2003, 21:31
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
No American tops George Washington.
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He got my vote as well.
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June 15, 2003, 21:33
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Originally posted by Elok
We should just be glad nobody has voted for Andrew Jackson so far. I haven't voted yet, I'm undecided.
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I thought about it, as we are related. But he was president back in the days when the country was so wierd that I couldn't really follow the historical narrative, so I voted for Washington.
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June 15, 2003, 21:37
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God Damn Euros are taking a dump in this poll as well. How else can one explain Bill Clinton getting more votes than Jefferson, Lincoln and both of the Roosevelts. He is only behind MLK jr., Franklin, Washington (thanks to my vote!). The man is scum, and his administration will be known as "the wasted years".
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June 15, 2003, 21:46
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Andrew Jackson was a good president, but in my mind there was no better American than Thomas Jefferson.
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June 15, 2003, 23:03
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Why do Marilyn Monroe and Hillary each have one vote, and Abraham Lincoln have only 2???? 
Time to change that.
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June 15, 2003, 23:18
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Thomas Edison! How can you compare a politition or an activist to an inventor?
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June 15, 2003, 23:31
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Thomas Edison was a complete scumbag who set science back decades.
Lincoln
Lincoln didn't do anything important outside the US (that I know of).
both of the Roosevelts.
The only thing I know about the first Roosevelt is that he liked saying "Bully" as a synonym for "Cool".
I think our Richard Bennett copied FDR's Depression-fighting strategy, but didn't get to implement it because William Lyon Mackenzie King got elected in 1935.
Seriously, you can't expect foreigners to know your presidents who specialized in internal affairs.
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June 16, 2003, 01:02
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Franklin was an inventor and scientist...
and a statesman...
and a philosopher...
and an entreprenuer...
He combined the best qualities of all of us.
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June 16, 2003, 01:04
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Basically people just didn't give an f about the poll so they voted for the funniest candidate.
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June 16, 2003, 01:05
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St. Leo, Teddy Roosevelt is not best known for his "internal affairs" (even if he did set up our national park system).
He brought Realpolitic to the United States.
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June 16, 2003, 01:08
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Come to think of it -- are you saying FDR, who was president during WWII, specialized in "interal affairs"?
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June 16, 2003, 01:10
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Where's the Thomas Paine option??? 
In his absence, I voted for MLKJr.
Runners up: Jefferson, FDR, Lincoln.
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June 16, 2003, 01:16
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As much as I like Thomas Paine, I wouldn't put him in a poll like this. He was a little too good with a poison pen.
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June 16, 2003, 01:30
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But Paine was such a crabby bastard, without being too evil (like Ford), which is what makes him so damn likeable. (CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT ALERT) And I mean, arguably, America wouldn't even exist without Paine. Washington's all well and good, but you don't get anywhere with the peasants without 'Common Sense'.
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."- Thomas Paine
"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours." -Bob Dylan
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June 16, 2003, 01:32
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Andrew Jackson was a good president, but in my mind there was no better American than Thomas Jefferson.
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I agree Jefferson was the best, but, since I'm related to Andrew I'm going to have to vote with the family.
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June 16, 2003, 01:35
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i think mrt meant feynman.
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June 16, 2003, 01:44
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T.Jefferson, since Homer is not an option.
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June 16, 2003, 02:00
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No Richard Simmons? 
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June 16, 2003, 02:00
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i think mrt meant feynman.
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... who?
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June 16, 2003, 02:06
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I think Franklin was the Da Vinci of America
Cept for all that drinking and womanizing...
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June 16, 2003, 02:09
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Behold Feynman!
He's a scientist, writer, thinker, linguist, and most importantly, a friend of Tuva!
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."- Thomas Paine
"I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours." -Bob Dylan
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