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I'm not normally one to blog on political, racial or religious issues, but some things are just too incredible to resist. I refer of course to this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4631421.stm. Ronald Regan was voted the Greatest American of all time. The rest of the list of top 10 also looks decidedly dodgy.
This survey polled over 2 million citizens so you would like to think it's pretty representative - at least amongst Discovery Channel viewers and AOL users - so this is a huge worry. Surely the intelligence level has not dropped so far? Now I'm certainly no expert on American history but off the top of my head, I can think of one or two American's who I think are greater. e.g. Henry Ford.
I wonder if New Zealand could come up with a better list or would it look something like this:
