The Greatest American?!?!?
The page is in irritating flash but wade through it and you'll see it: the winner of the Discovery Channel's "Greatest American" Poll is none other than...
Ronald Reagan.
My initial gut feeling of invalidation, of having "great" and "American" defined in opposition of everything I stand for, of having greatness personified in the man I joined politics to fight against, is beginning to subside. That's only because the realist in me knows that the Republican Party probably had phonebanks of interns war-dialing the program for the bragging rights, like it was a glorified "American Idol" episode. And the cynic in me knows that the American public has an incredibly short memory.
Still. It sucks.
Politics
The worst.
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