The folks over at rightwingnews.com took a poll of selected bloggers (i.e., they asked people to respond - no, I wasn't asked), asking them to select The 20 Worst Figures in American History. I could discuss the whole list, but it's probably easier just to reprint it:
1. | Julius Rosenberg and The Rosenbergs | 15+5 |
2. | Benedict Arnold | 19 |
3. | Bill Clinton | 15 |
4. | Jimmy Carter | 14 |
4. | Jesse Jackson | 14 |
6. | Noam Chomsky | 13 |
7. | Alger Hiss | 12 |
8. | John Wilkes Booth | 10 |
8. | Hillary Clinton | 10 |
8. | Lyndon Johnson | 10 |
8. | Timothy McVeigh | 10 |
12. | Charles Manson | 9 |
12. | Al Sharpton | 9 |
14. | Aaron Burr | 8 |
14. | Richard Nixon | 8 |
16. | Aldrich Ames | 7 |
17. | Robert Byrd | 6 |
17. | Lee Harvey Oswald | 6 |
17. | John Walker | 6 |
17. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 6 |
No Spiro Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover, William Tecumseh Sherman, John Dillinger, Clyde Barton, Al Capone, Billy the Kid, Orval Faubus, Lester Maddox, Bernard Law...apparently there's nothing worse to the right wing blognoscenti than being a political opponent.