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Most Overrated Historic Figure(s)

Posted on 04/20/2013 7:55:55 PM PDT by MNDude

There are probably many people in history who have received more credit than they deserved. Excluding any US Presidents in the past century (that would be too easy), what three historic figures do you think are the most overrated?


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To: MNDude

Bill Clinton, Overated by media who didn’t understand basic economics and gave him credit for all of Reagans work in the 80s. And never blamed him for the financial crash in the 2000s. Also, FDR was not only overated but also one of the biggest traitors in US history. He sold out Eastern Europe to his commie friends. And we paid for 60 years. With Blood of good men, and trillions of dollars. He was a traitor period.


21 posted on 04/20/2013 8:09:41 PM PDT by crazydad (Obamamohamed is a traitor)
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To: MNDude

FDR
Helen Keller
margaret sanger
jessie jackson


22 posted on 04/20/2013 8:10:16 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: MNDude

Mohammed.


23 posted on 04/20/2013 8:11:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MNDude
Robert Kennedy

Cesar Chavez

Hillary Clinton

24 posted on 04/20/2013 8:11:06 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died.)
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To: MNDude

Colin Powell


25 posted on 04/20/2013 8:11:12 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: MNDude; a fool in paradise

Elvis Priestley.


26 posted on 04/20/2013 8:11:58 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!
Elvis Priestley.

Wasn't that the dude on 90210?

27 posted on 04/20/2013 8:12:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MNDude
Excluding any US Presidents in the past century

idiots

28 posted on 04/20/2013 8:12:57 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died.)
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To: dfwgator

True that.


29 posted on 04/20/2013 8:13:52 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: MNDude

Barry Manilow?


30 posted on 04/20/2013 8:14:08 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Pan_Yan

Napoleon was not overrated. I read his biography. He may have been the most competent man on the planet, ever.

MLK is definitely overrated. Many universities no longer observe President’s day, but the all observe MLK day.


31 posted on 04/20/2013 8:14:21 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: MNDude

In no particular order:

Henry VIII
Pythagoras
Kublai Khan


32 posted on 04/20/2013 8:17:50 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: BenLurkin

33 posted on 04/20/2013 8:18:49 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: proudpapa

Caesar Chavez.


34 posted on 04/20/2013 8:18:51 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Wiser now

My top 3 as well.


35 posted on 04/20/2013 8:18:53 PM PDT by ryan71 (The republican party is dead to me. Dead. Don't bother trying to revive it.)
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To: MNDude
I think John Lennon was overrated. He's the guy that played in The Beatles, a rock band from the mid to late 1960s.

After The Beatles, he put out some pretty awful music like that "Imagine" song and the one song where he screams "Mother" at the top of his lungs. Horrible stuff. He did have a couple of catchy songs on that last album of his ("Double Fantasy") but then he got shot.

36 posted on 04/20/2013 8:18:54 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Michael Jackson


(Pedophile Dirtbag)

37 posted on 04/20/2013 8:21:08 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
William Hung

Okay, I'll stop now.. LOL

38 posted on 04/20/2013 8:22:49 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: MNDude

Sigmund Freud

Hillary Clinton

Walter Cronkite


39 posted on 04/20/2013 8:23:10 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: MNDude

Carl Sagan
John Maynard Keynes
Picasso


40 posted on 04/20/2013 8:23:20 PM PDT by razorback-bert (I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
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