Is there some constitutional requirement that it be a president?

If not, Frank Zappa.

If so, then Lincoln again.

TAYLOR

mostly because no one knows there was a Pres named Taylor.

Jesse Jackson actually suggested we replaced the slave owners that are up there with civil rights leaders.

#3, Dale Earnhardt?

ComicBookGuy: ComicBookGuy: Sleeping Monkey: Jerry Garcia

Why not Brent Mydland? He was also not President, and was the Dead's best vocalist, easily.

Also best keyboardist, for what it's worth

I agree. Just listened to "Without a Net" for the first time in years earlier tonight.

My choice. . ..

Adolf Hitler, just to Godwin the whole thing.

I don't even think Lincoln deserves to up up there. I certainly don't have a fifth to add.

I vote for Cthulu.

Considering that FDR is consistently ranked among the best Presidents and Reagan is certainly not, the choice is pretty clear.

Patrick Tribett.

Now, I couldn't find Reagan doing anything awesome, but I did find Mecha-FDR. So, I guess that means FDR wins.

SilentStrider: Truman or Eisenhower. End of discussion.

Truman? No way. With you on Eisenhower. I'd vote for FDR or Eisenhower.

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ClintonKun: Now, I couldn't find Reagan doing anything awesome, but I did find Mecha-FDR. So, I guess that means FDR wins.

Holy shiat those are awesome

ComicBookGuy: Hobodeluxe: reagan?

let's see...

he tripled the national debt
he raised taxes (on everyone but the rich)
he negotiated with terrorists
he armed terrorists
he sold drugs for arms to give to terrorists
he lied under oath
he set the precedent of "too big to fail" and bank bailouts
he started the highly unsuccessful and costly "war on drugs"
he started the deregulation of the financial sector.
he cut and ran like a chicken in Lebanon

I'm sure there's more but that's off the top of my head

Actually, I think it was Nixon who started the "War on Drugs" He also founded the DEA in 1972, if I recall correctly.

I believe you are correct. The Regan administration did have a hardon for the 'war on drugs' though.

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I always knew Washington had a sweet, sweet ass.

slimfast: HellRaisingHoosier: Assassinated like Lincoln .... and made it his mission to get mankind to the Moon.

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"...made it his mission to get mankind to the Moon..." for purely political reasons as we had to best the Soviets in the "high ground" of space.

You say that as if it is a bad thing. We both rushed into Germany to get their best and brightest. History tells us the United States got betters and threw more money at them to 'win' the race. It also says without the Germans, technology doesn't advance as quickly in the USA.

Time, place, and opportunity is what makes historical figures great.

Shostie: PC LOAD LETTER: Obama. Just to piss off the right.

Who better than our only Nobel Prize winning president?


Okay, I'll bite, just in case you aren't trolling and are actually just ignorant.

Besides Obama, both Jimmy Carter and Teddy Roosevelt (who is already depicted on Mt. Rushmore, second from the right) won Nobel Prizes.

Grover Norquist should drown in his OWN bathtub. Moron.

Sgygus: How about we wait until we have a president who has the stature of the four already up there?

Professional historians consistently rank FDR as one of the top 3 presidents of all time, while Reagan isn't even consistently in the top 10. Roosevelt belongs on Rushmore. Reagan does not. It isn't even a comparison.

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Kozmopoliskepticalopsis: Shostie: PC LOAD LETTER: Obama. Just to piss off the right.

Who better than our only Nobel Prize winning president?


Okay, I'll bite, just in case you aren't trolling and are actually just ignorant.

Besides Obama, both Jimmy Carter and Teddy Roosevelt (who is already depicted on Mt. Rushmore, second from the right) won Nobel Prizes.

Oh, and I forgot Woodrow Wilson too.

Teddy Roosevelt was such a big man, we need another Teddy up there.

And as God is my witness, no man who traded arms for hostages, dealt drugs in Central America, tore solar panels off the White House, and all the other bullshiat things he did, deserves to be anywhere near Mount Rushmore.

/although I could see a bullet hole sculpted into the side of the mountain in honor of his being shot in the lung but then you'd have to have a tree carved in the shape of Hinckley and a shrub trimmed in the profile of a young Jody Foster.

Éamon de Valera?

/I don't recall there being a specified requirement for it to be a President of the United States of America.
//Probably just my memory.
///That or Éamon is a really neat guy.

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The time for stupid talk is over.

bugontherug: Sgygus: How about we wait until we have a president who has the stature of the four already up there?

Professional historians consistently rank FDR as one of the top 3 presidents of all time, while Reagan isn't even consistently in the top 10. Roosevelt belongs on Rushmore. Reagan does not. It isn't even a comparison.

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If by "professional historians" you really mean "extreme left statist propagandists," then you're right.

This Guy.

malaktaus: How about we leave it blank and use the money to finish the Crazy Horse monument instead?

This! What could be a more fitting recognition of the historical relationship between the US and the Lakota than for the federal government to fund the white family that has made millions by co-opting Crazy Horse's image and dynamiting traditional Lakota land?

FDR, he won four terms, pushed America through WWII, key in forming the UN, brought us back from the brink of economic demise, created Social Security, the SEC, formed the Bretton Woods system, forced concessions from Stalin, and so on.

He was also paralyzed from the waist down; but even that couldn't stop him from walking,or at least pretending to so America would not appear weak.

In short; the reason we are the World's Super-:Power is because of him.

ComicBookGuy: It could be argued that JFK prevented World War III

It could be argued that he almost caused WW3.

Just do it already.

aselene: bugontherug: Sgygus: How about we wait until we have a president who has the stature of the four already up there?

Professional historians consistently rank FDR as one of the top 3 presidents of all time, while Reagan isn't even consistently in the top 10. Roosevelt belongs on Rushmore. Reagan does not. It isn't even a comparison.

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If by "professional historians" you really mean "extreme left statist propagandists," then you're right.

No, by "professional historians" I mean "professional historians." Even the Wall Street Journal 2005 poll ranked FDR 3rd, and Reagan 8th. Reagan doesn't even amount to a zit on FDR's ass.

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Ford. First Unelected giant bust on the side of a canyon!

I thought the purpose of Mt Rushmore was the celebrate and commemorate the presidents who contributed more to the westward expansion and preservation than any other purpose. So, yeah. Putting the face up of a guy who supported and made projects that built up a bunch of dams, and infrastructure is good. Eisenhower is a good one what with the interstates. I can't think of anyone else who'd be worthy though.

ComicBookGuy: simplicimus: ComicBookGuy: It could be argued that JFK prevented World War III

It could be argued he almost started it.

No, not really. That's a retarded right wing talking point.

It's one of the few Right wing talking points that isn't retarded.

Yeoman: If I had the option, I'd vote for Benjamin Franklin, even though he wasn't a president. If I had to choose between Reagan and FDR, it'd have to be FDR.

Franklin gets my vote

First, let's chisel the slave holding (and fornicating), miscreant, atheist off there and replace him with one of our great and pious presidents like Jimmy Carter.

Wilson? World War I, League of Nations... he's a Democrat, but as a shout out to the Republicans, he was racist as fark.

I think that Zod, Ursa, and Non did enough damage.

aselene: bugontherug: Sgygus: How about we wait until we have a president who has the stature of the four already up there?

Professional historians consistently rank FDR as one of the top 3 presidents of all time, while Reagan isn't even consistently in the top 10. Roosevelt belongs on Rushmore. Reagan does not. It isn't even a comparison.

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If by "professional historians" you really mean "extreme left statist propagandists," then you're right.

Yeah, the Wall Street Journal is a well-known communist rag.

bugontherug: aselene: bugontherug: Sgygus: How about we wait until we have a president who has the stature of the four already up there?

Professional historians consistently rank FDR as one of the top 3 presidents of all time, while Reagan isn't even consistently in the top 10. Roosevelt belongs on Rushmore. Reagan does not. It isn't even a comparison.

Link (new window)

If by "professional historians" you really mean "extreme left statist propagandists," then you're right.

No, by "professional historians" I mean "professional historians." Even the Wall Street Journal 2005 poll ranked FDR 3rd, and Reagan 8th. Reagan doesn't even amount to a zit on FDR's ass.

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How dare you bring "facts" into a discussion which should just amount to a flame war between liberals and conservatives. People like you just ruin perfectly good threads.