Well until you remove washington and show that we still would have won without him then he's the reasonthat you're you and not walking around calling cigarettes fags etc etc ;)
Of course its too hard to lol "When I came back from Korea, I had no money, no skills. Sure, I was good with a bayonet, but you can't put that on a resume - it puts people off!" Frank Barone, "Everybody Loves Raymond" ----- Original Message ----- From: "jon hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:14 PM Subject: Re: Your greatest American > Thursday, June 12, 2003, 7:44:33 PM, you wrote: > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/wtwta/2959462.stm > >> > >> Please vote...Homer Simpson is winning :( > >> Homer Simpson, and Mr. T may be a sad commentary, but Lincoln and > >> MLK were NOT more important than Thomas Jefferson (my vote)...pfft. > >> > >> The people who voted for Washington and Clinton are just idiots > >> because they probably weren't joking. > > LCL> Why? Clinton did a lot for the nation, while Washington's role is > LCL> painfully obvious. Franklin D Roosevelt probably saved the nation > LCL> from another revolution, this time a communist one, while Jefferson, > LCL> with all his very obvious flaws wrote one of the most important > LCL> documents at the core of the ideals of the nation. At least Ronnie > LCL> Raygun, Bush nor Shrub were on the list. > > LCL> larry > > > Clinton in retrospect was a decent president, not bad, not > excellent. The greatest American though? He isn't even in that > ballpark. There has been a lot of decent presidents. > Henry Ford would rank higher on my list than either of those > presidents, or Ben Franklin. > > Washington was a buffoon who only got to the the Constitutional > Congress because he married a rich mans daughter, and was a terrible > unqualified general who got a lot of soldiers killed. He wasn't good > at anything but dressing in that stupid fancy coat. They picked the > most harmless guy they could find, and made him president. Perfect for > the job imo. Definitely not the greatest American. > > I could understand why someone would pick FDR...he just wouldn't be my > choice. Definitely Top 10 though. > > Jefferson has always been by far my favorite, and he had very few > faults as far as I'm concerned. One example...while president he > examined every single patent application personally. Probably the last > president to even step into the patent office, let alone intelligent > enough to understand every invention. > He was the President that told American citizens that the second > amendment was their protection against the tyranny of their own > government. > > -- > jon > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
