# Reagan the greatest American??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978 "2005-06-27T01:41:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/21 "2005-06-27T02:43:57Z")
Elvis was #8. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/22 "2005-06-27T02:47:57Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > …Jesus wasn’t American… Of course you know, this means war. How dare you post this!? Why do you hate America and Jesus? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/23 "2005-06-27T02:50:20Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > [Here’s](http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/greatestamerican/top100/top100.html) an alphabetical list of the 100 you could vote for. Way too many entertainers on that list. I don’t think [Audie Murphy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy) is that bad a choice as part of the top 100. Barack Obama? He hasn’t even been around long enough to be one of the top 100 Illinoisians… Illinoisites… people from Illinois! And no John Madden. ☹ We can’t even keep up with the Canadians. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/24 "2005-06-27T02:52:26Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Jesus wasn’t American. Like _hell_ you say! ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/25 "2005-06-27T02:53:06Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Actually, I think Lefty is right. This is very much a what have you done for me lately culture. And what, exactly has Reagan done for the voters lately? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/26 "2005-06-27T02:54:49Z")
So Jesus was, what, British? Or did he learn English from Christian missionaries? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/27 "2005-06-27T02:55:10Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > And what, exactly has Reagan done for the voters lately? Died. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/28 "2005-06-27T02:56:18Z")
Well, I wouldn’t put Reagan at number 1 or GWB at number 6; add eight or ten zeros to each number and that might be more like it. But no “Earnhardt, Dale” on the list? It’s rigged, rigged, I tells ya! > [@](#): > > One position above where Don Cherry finished on the Canadian list. A couple weeks ago I was in St. John’s, NF and took some colleagues out to lunch at Don Cherry’s. I’d never been in the place before. I took a look around at all the giant portraits of some bullet-headed guy in flashy suits and said, “I take it this is someone other than the jazz musician, then?” They fell about laughing. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/29 "2005-06-27T02:59:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Jesus wasn’t American. A mere accident of birth. And bad timing. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/30 "2005-06-27T03:18:27Z")
I accidentally watched about 10 seconds of this nonsense a week or so ago and was aghast to see Dennis Miller and Anne Coulter discussing their choices for greatest American. I changed the channel before Anne could anoint Joseph McCarthy or Roy Cohn. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/31 "2005-06-27T03:22:15Z")
Is [Mel Gibson](http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican?page=nominees&subpage=mgibson) an American? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/32 "2005-06-27T03:24:42Z")
This isn’t a rant. The OP was barely an outline, for that matter, just a link and tossed-off comment. **Reeder** , apply some common sense already. If you’re going to go the trouble to start a thread, then at least give some reasons for it. Cool it with the links and a tossed-off comment. It’s gotten very old. A popularity poll of “great” Americans? Pure MPSIMS. Outta here… Veb ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/33 "2005-06-27T03:25:59Z")
Reagan the greatest American? Dubya Number 6? Was this the Crack-Addled Free Republic Discovery Channel? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/34 "2005-06-27T03:26:26Z")
A quick check of the Anagram Server clarifies the importance of Ronald Reagan to America. His name morphs to “A GLAND ON REAR.” ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/35 "2005-06-27T03:26:41Z")
On rechecking, this sucker didn’t even include the freakin’ _link_. Sheesh, this is pitiful. ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/36 "2005-06-27T03:26:49Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Lincoln was #2 > Jesus wasn’t American. Please. :rolleyes: He spoke English and had blue eyes. How could he NOT be? I bet he was a Baptist too. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/37 "2005-06-27T03:30:15Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > On rechecking, this sucker didn’t even include the freakin’ _link_. Sheesh, this is pitiful. Did I or did I not say there was no link yet? I posted just after he was named. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/38 "2005-06-27T03:41:39Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > Did I or did I not say there was no link yet? I posted just after he was named. If you couldn’t wait until a link was available, you could still make that huge leap of effort and actually explain 1. what you were referring to and 2. why you disagreed with the choice. Two sentences aren’t a springboard for a thread, much less a rant. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/39 "2005-06-27T03:41:49Z")
> [@Reeder](#): > > I voted for him. He finished 4th. You must be pretty damn old. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978/40 "2005-06-27T04:49:36Z")
Forgeting about Reagan or Bush for a moment, can we at least all agree that Oprah being in the top ten is the stupidest of all? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reagan-the-greatest-american/309978.md?page=3)