TOP 10s
TOP 10s
  1. Joe the Plumber
  2. Octomom
  3. Sarah Palin and her family
  4. Gene Simmons
  5. Paris Hilton
  6. David Hasselhoff
  7. Bill Cinton
  8. Rick Astley
  9. People who were once on Survivor
  10. Dick Cheney

According to Apoliticus…

What is your Top 10?
  1. “The Dude President” - Chester A. Arthur: given the nickname because of his penchant for fancy attire.
  2. “The Elephantine Economist” - Grover Cleveland: President Cleveland was a big fellow.
  3. “Granny” - Rutherford B. Hayes: he was considered boring because he didn’t drink or gamble or cuss. His wife was called Lemonade Lucy.
  4. “His Little Majesty” - James Madison: He was 5-foot-4.
  5. “The Careful Dutchman” - Martin Van Buren: He spoke Dutch. And apparently he was careful.
  6. “Ten Cent Jimmie” - James Buchanan: After he suggested in a campaign speech that a man could live on 10 cents a day.
  7. “The American Louis Phillipe” - Millard Fillmore: A reference to the last king of France.
  8. “The Phrasemaker” - Woodrow Wilson: He was very eloquent and wrote his own speeches.
  9. “His Accidency” - John Tyler: Political opponents believed Tyler could only become president by accident (as he did with the death of William Henry Harrison).
  10. “The Human Iceberg” - Benjamin Harrison: He was perceived as cold and emotionless.

According to The Chicago Tribune…

What is your Top 10?
  1. moot
  2. Anwar Ibrahim
  3. Rick Warren
  4. Baitullah Mehsud
  5. Larry Brilliant
  6. Eric Holder
  7. Carlos Slim
  8. Angela Merkel
  9. Kobe Bryant
  10. Evo Morales

According to Time…

What is your Top 10?
  1. “There is no conclusive proof that nicotine’s addictive… And the same thing with cigarettes causing emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease.”
  2. “Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.”
  3. “He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act… This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”
  4. “[African Americans] are twelve percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”
  5. “Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentlemen, a worthless shred of human debris.”
  6. “Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”
  7. “We are a growing country and everybody needs energy! We’re not going to stay the United States if we start reducing energy usage. Conservation is not the answer.”
  8. To a black caller: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”
  9. On torture at Abu Ghraib: “This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation. And we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it, and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people—you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some team off?”
  10. “Screw the world. Do you really think we ought to govern ourselves based on what the world thinks of us?”

According to Christopher Bateman…

What is your Top 10?

Renegade
President Barack Obama

Lancer
President John F. Kennedy

Searchlight
President Richard Nixon

Deacon
President Jimmy Carter

Sunburn
Presidential candidate Ted Kennedy

Rawhide
President Ronald Reagan

Halo
Pope John Paul II

Smurfette
Karenna Gore, daughter of vice-president Al

Angler
Vice-President Dick Cheney

Parasol
Cindy McCain

According to Time…

What is your Top 10?
  1. The latest one takes the biscuit. Barack Obama jokes about the disabled on the Jay Leno show. Afterwards, he calls the head of the Special Olympics to apologise.
  2. Joe Biden tells a former Senate colleague who addresses him as “Mr Vice-President” to “give me a f—ing break.”
  3. Gordon Brown presents the new President with: a pen holder carved from the timbers of HMS Gannett, a sister ship of HMS Resolute; the commissioning certificate of HMS Resolute; and a seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In return, the Prime minister gets 25 DVDS, which don’t work in Britain.
  4. Joe Biden tells his wife that he had the choice of being either Secretary of State or vice-president - an offer that was news to Obama aides and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when Jill Biden spilled the beans on Oprah.
  5. A Marine One double. First, on his maiden Marine One trip Obama breaches protocol and makes life uncomfortable for an enlisted marine by shaking the the serviceman’s hand as he’s saluting his commander-in-chief.  Then - Gerald Ford, eat your heart out. Barack Obama bangs his head as he boards his helicopter.
  6. Joe Biden jokes about Chief Justice John Roberts fluffing the inauguration oath. The president is visibly annoyed with his veep and Biden later apologises.
  7. Barack Obama mixes up the windows and doors at his new home.
  8. Joe Biden forgets the “website number” for the White House internet site designed to show how TARP money is being spent.
  9. Barack Obama jokes about Nancy Reagan having séances in the White House. He later called her to apologise after the AP noted that although she had consulted astrologers, “she did not hold conversations with the dead.”
  10. Just after he’s been sworn in by him, the newly-minted Vice President Joe Biden gets the name of Justice John Paul Stephens, “one of the great justices” of the Supreme Court, calling him “Justice Stewart.”

According to Toby Harnden of The Telegraph…

What is your Top 10?
Martin Van Buren - 8th president, 1837-1841
William Henry Harrison - 9th president, 1841
John Tyler - 10th president, 1841-1845
Millard Fillmore - 13th president, 1850-1853
James Buchanan - 15th president, 1857-1861
Rutherford B. Hayes - 19th President, 1877-1881
Chester A. Arthur - 21st President, 1881-1885
William McKinley - 25th President, 1897-1901
Warren G. Harding - 29th President, 1921-1923
Herbert Hoover - 31st President, 1929-1933

According to Time…

What is your Top 10?
  1. James Buchanan
  2. Andrew Johnson
  3. Franklin D. Pierce
  4. William Henry Harrison
  5. Warren G. Harding
  6. Millard Fillmore
  7. George W. Bush
  8. John Tyler
  9. Herbert Hoover
  10. Rutherford B. Hayes

According to C-SPAN…

What is your Top 10?
  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. George Washington
  3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  4. Theodore Roosevelt
  5. Harry S. Truman
  6. John F. Kennedy
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  9. Woodrow Wilson
  10. Ronald Reagan

According to C-SPAN…

What is your Top 10?
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