You're a Great American!John Hawkins polled center-right bloggers on the subject of the greatest Americans of all time. The
results are here.
Here's my (unranked) list:
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
James Madison
Ronald Reagan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bud Day
Abraham Lincoln
Wilbur & Orville Wright
Thomas Edison
J. Edgar Hoover
Todd Beamer
Audie Murphy
Jimmy Stewart
John Adams
Sam Adams
George W. Bush
The ones who didn't make the list are probably idiosynchratic choices of mine--Audie Murphy, the most decorated WWII soldier; Jimmy Stewart the actor and war hero; Todd Beamer, one of the heroes of Flight 93; and Bud Day, the most decorated soldier alive. J. Edgar Hoover and Sam Adams deserve to be on the list. Looking at the list, the only one that I blew completely was Martin Luther King, Jr. The only one I would disagree with completely is Bill Gates.