Michael Moore is gotterdamerung hilarious. I was watching him give a speech on CSPAN, after his introductory thundering applause, he proceeded to go into this psychological multiple personality disorder act. And it was so real, I had thought Moore had really really lost it once and for all. But alas, it was a fake, but woah was it convincing. He went on for a full minute and a half when speaking in two, or three, or four different tongues. And double that number of personalities for sure.

I have a very high regard for your opinions, and I realize you did not research your list, but I find it very disappointing coming from you.

I swear Neo, do these people know what they are giving out when they open their mouths to pantomine their typing? Having a high regard for unresearched opinions indeed.

Just call me “we’ll be greated as liberators” and “the insurgency’s in its last throes” aqualung…

Jesus, the world you nut-jobs inhabit is so…oh, I dunno, …dishonest???

I have a very high regard for your opinions, and I realize you did not research your list, but I find it very disappointing coming from you.

To be included on a list of Worst Americans, shouldn’t there be some long lasting and unfavorable consequence on American culture, economics or politics?

Benedict Arnold may have been a traitor, but his message to the British was intercepted and the mission foiled.

Timothy McVeigh was an American terrorist for sure, and what he did was despicable, but the consequences were better security at government buildings.

Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssesn were traitors, but in the end we still won the Cold War.

Michael Moore is pathetic, but his goal to influence a presidential election failed.

Booth assassinated a president, and there is an argument that the country took a different and harmful direction because Lincoln was no longer in charge, but that is an indirect consequence of his actions.

Jim Jones??? Lynch mobs??? Evil yes, but not culture/history -changing personalities.

I am not familiar with Father Coughlin.

Walter Duranty is the only person on your list I think qualifies for the distiction of Worst Americans, but even his actions hurt the Russians more than us, and the MSM would probably be the same today even without him.

Give me a break. You might not like his politics, but Michael Moore alongside lynch mobs and Jim Jones? Preposterous.

They weren’t your suggestions, but Jimmy Carter and Abraham Lincoln among the ten worst Americans? Preposterous again.

A loyal Canadian – does that disqualify me from this discussion? -tequilamockingbird

Most Americans understand to be magnanimous and respectful of the surrendering party. It seems your personal beliefs steer you away from that tradition, and I don’t think for the better.

And I remind you, that Jefferson also didn’t help create a Constitution that allowed slavery to keep on existing(But he did), and indeed grow even stronger. I remind you that real world problems are not as simple as supporting or ending slavery.

Read about the Civil War, from both view points, and you will see that there were 2 sides, containing human beings, with real motivations. It isn’t as cut and dry as you portray it. The “Good Guys” against the “Bad Slavers”. It almost never is. As Neo has many times written about, human actions is never as simple as we want it to be.

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If the people who lost families, brothers and husbands, could forgive. Then why do you feel you have the right to feel indignant over Davis’s fate.

2. Abraham Lincoln, responsible for the deaths of over 600,000 Americans in a totally unneccessary war of imperialism.

As anyone might witness. A lot of people have their beliefs of what and whom did most harm. It has nothing to do with the truth or the facts or the numbers, or Good and Evil for that matter.

Northerners don’t like Davis, Southern gun culture guys don’t like Lincoln. What else is new. I tend to prefer cosmopolitanism instead of old blood debts.

While Bowman might be being ironic, there are plenty of people I know who would agree with number 2.

1. Jimmy Carter, who by his utter lack of action encouraged world-wide terrorism and is arguably responsible for the current mess we are in

2. Abraham Lincoln, responsible for the deaths of over 600,000 Americans in a totally unneccessary war of imperialism.

Franklin Roosevelt. Was responsible for Federal hyperdrive. Popularized the concept of President King.

Jimmy Carter. Consistently gave favor to and is now often in the company of true tyrants.

Norman Thomas. Fellow traveler and useful idiot. Helped popularize the foolishness that still plagues us all.

Lynch Mobs are certainly not nice, but if not why would you not mention the current race war waged by blacks against whites when the number of victims is rather much larger in the later case?

Your Walter Duranty nomination assumes that his editors had no idea. I doubt that was the case.

Loyalty is not an absolute good. If Davis’s rebellion served a greater good than loyalty to America, then that might excuse him; we might even honor him as a man who put all in jeapordy to defend a higher ideal. But his rebellion was to defend the propagation of slavery to new American territories. All their honor was null when Davis and his men chose slavery above their country and their oaths to defend it.

That he rebelled not in the service of a greater good, but in the name of seizing for himself the labor of other men, even to the extent of denying their most basic liberty, and solely for his own enrichment, makes him a traitor. Literal traitor against the legitimate government of the United States, and traitor to the ideals on which the United States was founded.

The magnitude of his rebellion makes him the worst traitor in history. He sought to end the Union. How is that not seeking to destroy America? What greater harm could the United States suffer?

That he was not hanged is a testament to the mercy of Lincoln, and does not excuse his perfidy in service of slavery. That his generals fought according to the laws of war does not diminish the evil of fighting to preserve and extend slavery.