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« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2014, 07:10:01 PM »

Jesus Christ is the only man, God, or otherwise who deserves the honor.
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« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2014, 07:44:56 PM »

FDR.
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« Reply #27 on: June 24, 2014, 09:37:23 AM »

FDR

And after him, Lyndon Johnson would be on my list. Vietnam was terrible, but I feel that his domestic achievements outweigh the war.
Oh sure, his domestic achievements were great:

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>implying that the other four faces on Mt. Rushmore aren't racist
For the most part, they weren't.  Maybe by today's standards, but most of them were very progressive on racial issues by the standards of their own times.

Lincoln gets knocked a lot for supporting colonization, but such a position was very common among abolitionists who felt that former slaves had been victimized for so long in America that the obstacles to their success would be too great to remain. 

Jefferson owned slaves and may have even held some racist views toward blacks, but the evidence shows he struggled over the issue of slavery much more than a simple glance suggests.  His main internal conflict was with his own status as a slaveholder and his recognition of slaves as human (even if they were inferior.)  This page is a good one on the subject of Jefferson and race.

Washington, like Jefferson, was a slave owner, but he personally held some anti-slavery sentiments and even added manumission of all his slaves into his will.

Teddy Roosevelt, on the other hand, was an outspoken supporter of black civil rights and even invited Booker T. Washington to the White House, a move that prompted Democrats to attack him for "painting the White House black."
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« Reply #28 on: June 24, 2014, 09:39:00 AM »

Booker T. Washington was the epitome of an Uncle Tom.
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« Reply #29 on: June 24, 2014, 11:51:34 AM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...
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« Reply #30 on: June 24, 2014, 12:13:14 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...
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« Reply #31 on: June 24, 2014, 12:18:07 PM »

Booker T. Washington was the epitome of an Uncle Tom.

No, he wasn't. He recognized the times and understood that it would be nearly impossible to change the popular opinion of racial issues. Washington wanted blacks to work hard in everything for their own benefit, and let that take them as far as it could in the racist society of his lifetime.
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« Reply #32 on: June 24, 2014, 12:53:17 PM »

Booker T. Washington was the epitome of an Uncle Tom.
I was unaware a second generation Cuban-American has a right to make decisions for the black community on who is and who isn't an "Uncle Tom."

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« Reply #33 on: June 24, 2014, 01:28:33 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...

Please leave the Party of LINCOLN now.  Please and thanks.
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« Reply #34 on: June 24, 2014, 01:45:38 PM »

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« Reply #35 on: June 24, 2014, 02:04:20 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...

Please leave the Party of LINCOLN now.  Please and thanks.

States of the Confederacy provided Romney with 118 of his 206 electoral votes. Sorry bud, but this ain't the party of Lincoln anymore.
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« Reply #36 on: June 24, 2014, 02:11:57 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...

Please leave the Party of LINCOLN now.  Please and thanks.

States of the Confederacy provided Romney with 118 of his 206 electoral votes. Sorry bud, but this ain't the party of Lincoln anymore.

We know how much that helped Romney.
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« Reply #37 on: June 24, 2014, 04:35:34 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...

Please leave the Party of LINCOLN now.  Please and thanks.

States of the Confederacy provided Romney with 118 of his 206 electoral votes. Sorry bud, but this ain't the party of Lincoln anymore.

You say that as if it is somehow, in any way fathomable, historically or politically, a good thing.
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« Reply #38 on: June 24, 2014, 04:36:24 PM »

FDR.
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« Reply #39 on: June 24, 2014, 04:47:48 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...
Why would you want to honor Jeff Davis? Even if you like the Confederacy, he was pretty clearly a terrible executive.
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« Reply #40 on: June 25, 2014, 06:17:01 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...

Please leave the Party of LINCOLN now.  Please and thanks.

States of the Confederacy provided Romney with 118 of his 206 electoral votes. Sorry bud, but this ain't the party of Lincoln anymore.

You say that as if it is somehow, in any way fathomable, historically or politically, a good thing.

Seriously...  Look at how the fellow Republicans have responded to this Confederate hack...  Go be a Democrat like your racist ancestors.
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« Reply #41 on: June 25, 2014, 06:18:36 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...

Please leave the Party of LINCOLN now.  Please and thanks.

States of the Confederacy provided Romney with 118 of his 206 electoral votes. Sorry bud, but this ain't the party of Lincoln anymore.

You say that as if it is somehow, in any way fathomable, historically or politically, a good thing.

Seriously...  Look at how the fellow Republicans have responded to this Confederate hack...  Go be a Democrat like your racist ancestors.

As a Democrat, we'd rather not have him either.
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« Reply #42 on: June 25, 2014, 06:57:09 PM »

Probably Polk.

Also, maybe take Lincoln off and put Jefferson Davis up there? Hey, Davis was a president...

Please leave the Party of LINCOLN now.  Please and thanks.

States of the Confederacy provided Romney with 118 of his 206 electoral votes. Sorry bud, but this ain't the party of Lincoln anymore.

You say that as if it is somehow, in any way fathomable, historically or politically, a good thing.

Seriously...  Look at how the fellow Republicans have responded to this Confederate hack...  Go be a Democrat like your racist ancestors.

As a Democrat, we'd rather not have him either.
The Libertarians, on the other hand, might be accommodating...
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« Reply #43 on: June 25, 2014, 06:57:35 PM »

I think the monument is a rather silly, New Deal era relic that isn't very interesting.

Except that it was started before the Depression or the New Deal.

Clearly the only logical choice for addition to Mount Rushmore is the one and only Great Communicator and Eternal Spiritual Leader of the Nation Ronald Wilson Reagan.
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« Reply #44 on: June 25, 2014, 07:31:16 PM »

 James K. Polk.
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« Reply #45 on: June 25, 2014, 07:51:11 PM »

Polk.

Most of the notable post Teddy Roosevelt Presidents, such as LBJ and Reagan, shouldn't be on Mt. Rushmore because, at least IMO, they are too polarizing. I think FDR and Eisenhower are the only ones that could work.
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