Ronald Reagan votest Greatest American
 

After collecting over 2 million votes on AOL.com and by text message and call-in vote here are the top ten Americans:

10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
9. Oprah Winfrey
8. Elvis Presley
7. William Jefferson Clinton
6. George Walker Bush
5. Benjamin Franklin
4. George Washington
3. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Abraham Lincoln
1. Ronald Reagan

http://tv.channel.aol.com/greatestamerican

snark bait
 

from aol tv, no less. no doubt, a crowd of heavy thinkers weighed in on this one....

i can see why Reagan would make the top ten...but Clinton? and Bush? and Elvis Presley , as the 8th Greatest American?

when i think of greatest Americans, i think of people like Thomas Jefferson or Thomas Edison or Albert Einsten or even Bill Gates - great minds ahead of their times, who's ideas changed everything.

Jefferson, Edison, Einstein, and Gates are all in the top 25.

all somewhere lower on the list than a dead druggie rock icon (who arguably owes his fame and fortune to Edison's inventions) - go figure.