Who should be the Greatest American?

The Greatest American. What a title. When you hear those words, what names come to mind?

...George Washington...
...Abraham Lincoln...
...Martin Luther King, Jr...
...Neil Armstrong...

Tell me something, would you immediately think of Bill Clinton? Or George W. Bush? Or even Ronald Reagan?

I sure as hell wouldn't. But apparently the majority of Americans who watch the Discovery Channel would.

They voted Ronald Reagan the Greatest American. George W. was number six and Clinton was seven. You want to know what this tells me? People don't know enough about history. We're locked into our modern lives and can't see beyond the years in which we've lived.

Thomas Edison and Thomas Jefferson were both ranked lower than Bush and Clinton. Poor John Adams, one of the most influential of our Founding Fathers isn't even in the top 100. But don't worry, Tom Cruise made it. So did Ellen Degeneres.

Read your American History, people. This is embarrassing. The Discovery Channel ought to be ashamed for holding this farce of a contest.

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