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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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KEYWORDS: chat; history; overrated; vanity
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To: al baby

Not guilty!

I mean.....not overrated.


41 posted on 04/20/2013 8:23:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: MNDude

I’ll add Princess Diana to the names above


42 posted on 04/20/2013 8:24:25 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Michael.SF.
Americans test badly because They don't read the bloody instructions!
43 posted on 04/20/2013 8:25:23 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (A week when a Elvis impersonator sends a rucin laced letter to the White House and noöne cares)
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To: MNDude

You guys totally reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOyw6Q8qWpM


44 posted on 04/20/2013 8:26:32 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Pan_Yan

Andrew Jackson gave the British the most lop sided defeat they ever suffered. They lost more men in several battles and lost nearly all in others but they also inflicted lots of casualties in all those.

At New Orleans Jackson suffered less than 50 casualties while the British suffered thousands.


45 posted on 04/20/2013 8:26:36 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: MNDude

Arthur Nielsen


46 posted on 04/20/2013 8:27:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: dinoparty

Agreed. Certainly the most overrated non-President political figure of the last twenty years. What exactly is so great about him? If he was white, would any of us know who he is?


47 posted on 04/20/2013 8:31:26 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: razorback-bert

Your list might be the closest to what I would have. I’d take out Sagan and put in Nietzsche. Art has been terrible since Picasso for the most part.


48 posted on 04/20/2013 8:32:20 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: MNDude

Definitely FDR. Then I would add Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama.


49 posted on 04/20/2013 8:33:11 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: rbg81
Napoleon was not overrated. I read his biography. He may have been the most competent man on the planet, ever.

He had an Obama complex.

Eygpt, Russia, Waterloo. Three times he expected to win because it was his destiny, and didn't take into account local factors - supply lines, weather, competant opponents.

50 posted on 04/20/2013 8:33:35 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (A week when a Elvis impersonator sends a rucin laced letter to the White House and noöne cares)
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To: MNDude

Martha Raye.


51 posted on 04/20/2013 8:33:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Beowulf9

I might change one of mine to Woody Allen after that clip:-)


52 posted on 04/20/2013 8:34:11 PM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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To: MNDude

1. Karl Marx

2. Gandhi

3. Mao


53 posted on 04/20/2013 8:34:19 PM PDT by nkronos
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To: dinoparty

Bernard Law Montgomery
MLK
Che
Bill Gates
Fidel Castro
Any Soviet / Chi-com Leader - all same to me
Yassir (nossir) Arafat
Charles DeGaulle
Most current pro and college athletes


54 posted on 04/20/2013 8:34:25 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: fungoking

Don’t forget largely responsible for WWII.


55 posted on 04/20/2013 8:34:52 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: MNDude

Ryan Howard.

LOL Phillies fans suffer.


56 posted on 04/20/2013 8:35:11 PM PDT by this_ol_patriot
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Ethel Merman also.


57 posted on 04/20/2013 8:36:33 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: yarddog
Andrew Jackson gave the British the most lop sided defeat they ever suffered.

He followed that up with the Indian Removal Act and instituting the spoilage system for federal appointments. I'll give him credit for being the last president to pay off our debt but he certainly is not the icon portrayed in text books.

58 posted on 04/20/2013 8:38:18 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
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59 posted on 04/20/2013 8:38:48 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: wally_bert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmZdqsCW8vM


60 posted on 04/20/2013 8:39:10 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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