Eleanor Roosevelt ranked the top first lady; Michelle Obama fifth, Hillary in sixth

President Franklin D. Roosevelt carved the turkey during the annual Thanksgiving dinner for polio patients at Warm Springs, Ga., on Dec. 1, 1933. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt was by his side.

Eleanor Roosevelt kept the top spot in a new survey that ranks American first ladies — her fifth No. 1 ranking over the last 32 years — while Michelle Obama edged out Hillary Clinton to come in fifth.

Abigail Adams ranked second in the Siena College/C-SPAN survey, followed by Jacqueline Kennedy and then Dolley Madison.

Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Clinton followed at fifth and sixth, and Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford, Martha Washington and Rosalynn Carter rounded out the top 10.

The women were ranked based on various criteria, such as background, value to the country, leadership and “being her own woman.”

Siena College partnered with C-SPAN on its first ladies survey for the first time, because the cable network is featuring a yearlong series, “First Ladies: Influence and Image.”

When combined with Siena’s 2008 rankings of the presidents, the top “First Couple” would be Mrs. Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt, followed by the Washingtons and the Roosevelts again — this time Edith and Theodore Roosevelt.

The survey also hinted at the political aspirations of one notable name in the list.

“Hillary Clinton is the clear choice of scholars as the First Lady they could most imagine serving as President garnering more than twice the support of Eleanor Roosevelt with Michelle Obama a distant third,” the survey said. “While no First Lady is a pull away leader in the category of ‘could have done more while in office’, Laura Bush is mentioned most often followed closely by Pat Nixon, Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman and Barbara Bush.”

Teddy

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

-- Theodore Roosevelt

A quote of Teddy Roosevelt

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

...... and you ain't Abe Lincoln

So I said to him, "Barack, I know Abe Lincoln , and you ain't Abe Lincoln ."


For those who study history --- you recall that despite Obama's continuous attempts to quote Lincoln as a Democrat................President Lincoln was a Republican President!

SO WHY DOESN'T OBAMA USE THIS FAMOUS LINCOLN QUOTE

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

...... Abraham Lincoln

Is it my imagination or ...................

My ADD makes me a “channel hopper” when I watch TV. I can sit there and go through the channels all night long. But my doing this I have learned one thing, commercials make up the major part of TV. It is almost possible to go through all the channels and have a commercial on each channel.


I think eventually they will only have to film about ten minutes of the show, and there will be twenty minutes of commercials. An hour show will only actually be about twenty to thirty minutes.

Commercials and advertising rule our country. Just think, we used to listen to the radio, it had one speaker, yet we all listened to the radio and had pictures in our minds. We had old 78 rpm records that we listened to. Some didn’t even have changers and we had to put a new record on each time.

Then along came “hi fi” and everyone rushed out and got one. Then some engineer decided that we needed “stereo” which is nothing more than splitting one sound into two, and you listened with both ears.

Each time we had to buy something new. New technology always seems to lead to purchasing something new. We live in a “throw-away society.” I always admire “forward thinkers” who think ahead on what is going to be needed next, and are ready when it comes along.

I still take Bufferin and drink Lipton tea because of Arthur Godfrey. I will only use Hellman's mayonnaise because of Ruth Lyons, (pictured above) and those goes back over 60 years. When they told you to try something, you did. If Ruthie introduced a new product, it sold out at stores before the day was over. You don’t find that anymore where the “star” of the show endorses the products they are advertising. Bob Hope for Pepsodent, a lot of products were associated with the people who promoted them.

To me it is still a monument to advertising that they have the public convinced that watching poker, is entertaining. That still amazes me. I think the size of the pots make it watchable, mention MILLIONS and you get someone's attention. Why else would anyone watch poker? To me that is at the bottom of the “interest” chain.

But then, you have to remember, I go back a long way, I loved Burma-Shave signs and listened to the old Philco Radio while Mom did the washing using the old ringer washer, and cleaned the walls with wallpaper cleaner and scrubbed the sink with Skiddo.

I have witnessed a lot since 1932, just think of all that has happened since then. I delivered newspapers to Orville Wright’s home in Oakwood, often saw Charles Kettering who invented the starter for the automobile as well as many other inventions, saw Franklin Roosevelt in a motorcade with Kettering and Wright.

Much has happened since 1932.

How things change ................

Over five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel "pick up your shovel, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the promised land".

Nearly 75 years ago, Roosevelt said, "Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a camel, this is the promised land".

Now Obama has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of camels, and mortgaged the promised land.