Top Ten Worst Americans

All things beautiful - a website I've not seen before, asks, "who are the ten worst Americans?"

Not an easy list....  Are we talking about the status of one's soul?  Or that one mistake that creates lots and lots of other mistakes? 

It's all comparative, and sometimes good appears accidentally....  A few of these people have done just one or two things that are so awful, God have mercy on their souls.  And others barely deserve mercy, I think.  Fortunately, it is not me making this decision.

Harry J. Anslinger: Our current prohibition.
Alfred P. Sloan: destroyed trolley system and enslaved us to the car.
Henry Kissinger: Biafra, anyone?
Chief Justice Roger Taney;
Allen Welsh Dulles;
Edward Teller;
Irenee du Pont, [Nazi sympathizer, and anti-Roosevelt Conspirator]
Captain John Mason, who led the massacre of 600-700 Pequots.
Wayne B. Wheeler, [anti-Saloon league]
J.C. Bancroft Davis [corporations are people, too}

And J. Edgar Hoover.  Of course.
I'm sure there are people personally nastier.  Except, perhaps, for Kissinger.

Comments

[Gigantic Hound]

Bush. Ayn Rand. George Wallace.

[Alexandra]

All Things Beautiful TrackBack A Challenge To The Blogosphere: 'The Ten Worst Americans' List

"As a post Christmas/Hannukah Challenge, I invited the Blogosphere to name 'The Ten Worst Americans' in the last, well it will have to be 230 odd years.....Salt or Salty Vicar to his friends has posted his list here.

[John Wilkins]

Ayn Rand. That's a good one. Might have to adjust my list. Although I think Dubya is awful, I wonder if Cheney is worse. I need a little bit more time on that one. Wallace seemed to be more the product of his times.

[Jay]

Cheney is easily worse. One of the most black-hearted people I can think of. Think of it this way... although it took me some years to really believe it, 'W' has a geniune faith rooted in the redemption Christ offers. Cheney and his unheavenly host (Rove, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al) sit on both his shoulders, twisting the Gospel. No one has done a better job of perverting the teachings of Christ and of the Bible in the mind of the world's most powerful man. Lucifer must be proud beyond words.

[Jay]

Addendum: I almost make 'W' sound like an innocent victim... my bad! He is not that nave. He has embraced the Cheney-Wolfowitz world view, in fact he seems to glory in it since it is he the one who at the seat of power in the center of that universe. But clearly Cheney is the master. Bush's personal Sith Lord.