(10-21-2013 11:53 PM)Claw Wrote:  Best: Churchill

Worst: Mao, Lenin, Stalin

I never knew any of them were Americans...

(10-21-2013 08:35 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  Calvin is a bit of an odd choice, not saying I disagree. I'm curious as to what your rationale for it is.

I would've said something like this, though Reason does Cal better justice.

http://reason.com/archives/1998/12/01/re...f-cool-cal

Best:
Ken Hendricks
Richard Feynman
Jonas Salk
Norman Borlaug
Neil Armstrong
Billy Graham
Dwight Eisenhower

Worst:
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
Coleman Young
Saul Alinsky
Kermit Gosnell

(10-22-2013 07:54 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(10-21-2013 11:35 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  Worst. Absolute worst:

Barack Hussein Obama

So what did he do as a state representative, professor and community organizer to be worthy of that tribute?

Every president before him fought for democracy...Obama broke that streak.

(10-22-2013 01:36 AM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 01:19 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  

(10-22-2013 12:35 AM)dmacfour Wrote:  

(10-21-2013 08:43 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  Worst

Lee Harvey Oswald
Bernie Madoff
Aldridge Ames
Deep Throat

No sure if serious.

A random and curious list, to be sure.

If "Deep Throat" is meant to signify William Mark Felt (1913-2008), the FBI official who was J. Edgar Hoover's most devoted and loyal disciple among all of the Bureau's upper-level executives, it is really weird to include him on the list. He was an obscure bureaucrat for almost his entire life. At age 92 and suffering from dementia, his daughter announced that Felt was "Deep Throat" of Watergate fame, the anonymous source who gave a series of unrecorded, off-the-record interviews to a Washington Post reporter in 1972-73. The daughter candidly admitted that she was making the announcement in hopes of gaining money for her children's college and other family expenses. The reporter (Bob Woodward) then stated this was true, even though Felt himself had denied it, repeatedly and publicly (and -- on one occasion -- while under oath, testifying to a federal grand jury) in the 1970s and 1980s.

That's just great. Another graduate of my alma mater who is famous for the wrong reasons. The other is Sarah Palin.

What's wrong with Sarah Palin?

Worst: Jim Jones, Charles Manson, Columbine Shooters.

Best: Good thing is, there are way too many to name.

I can't rank a President amongst the best. If we had a list of their classified daily activities, we wouldn't think too highly of the office.

I'd have to add Barry Goldwater to the list of 'Best.'