The Smithsonian compiles list of the "100 most Significant Americans." Both George W. Bush and Sarah Palin make the list, but the first African American President does not.

Courtesy of Raw Story: 

This week, Smithsonian magazine asked its readers, “How much does Thomas Paine matter? More than Harriet Beecher Stowe? Less than Elvis? On a par with Dwight Eisenhower?” 

But curiously, the in-house magazine for the Smithsonian Institution decided that George W. Bush is a more “significant” figure in U.S. history than the country’s first Black president, Barack Obama, who did not make the list. 

Bush appears on the magazine’s list of the “100 most significant Americans,” released in this week’s issue. According to Smithsonian, it put together the list by considering data compiled by Google engineer Charles B. Ward and Steven Skiena, a professor of computer science at Stony Brook University. 

But instead of relying simply on statistics to determine the result, the magazine said it split Skiena and Ward’s results into several categories of 10 Americans apiece, then made its own determinations of who fit the bill. 

Other notable entries included former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) in the list of “First Women,” Hulk Hogan in the “Athletes” category, as well as Cotton Mather, who was a key figure behind the Salem Witch Trials, under “Religious Figures.”

So there you have it. According to the Smithsonian a with hunter, a witch, and a guy who pretends to wrestle on TV are more significant than the first black man to be President of the United States of America.

I guess ending wars, fixing the economy, and bringing prosperity back to this country is simply not as significant as lying the country into those wars, destroying the economy, and making the word hate America, right?

Here is the full list, just to fan your outrage:


Trailblazers 

Christopher Columbus 
Henry Hudson 
Amerigo Vespucci 
John Smith 
Giovanni da Verrazzano 
John Muir 
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 
Sacagawea 
Kit Carson 
Neil Armstrong 
John Wesley Powell 

Rebels & resisters 

Martin Luther King Jr. 
Robert E. Lee 
Thomas Paine 
John Brown 
Frederick Douglass 
Susan B. Anthony 
W.E.B. Du Bois 
Tecumseh 
Sitting Bull 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 
Malcolm X 

Presidents 

Abraham Lincoln 
George Washington 
Thomas Jefferson 
Theodore Roosevelt 
Ulysses S. Grant 
Ronald W. Reagan 
George W. Bush 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
Woodrow Wilson 
James Madison 
Andrew Jackson 

First Women 

Pocahontas 
Eleanor Roosevelt 
Hillary Clinton 
Sarah Palin 
Martha Washington 
Hellen Keller 
Sojourner Truth 
Jane Addams 
Edith Wharton 
Bette Davis 
Oprah Winfrey 

Outlaws 

Benedict Arnold 
Jesse James 
John Wilkes Booth 
Al Capone 
Billy the Kid 
William M. “Boss” Tweed 
Charles Manson 
Wild Bill Hickok 
Lee Harvey Oswald 
John Dillinger 
Lucky Luciano 

Artists 

Frank Lloyd Wright 
Andy Warhol 
Frederick Law Olmsted 
James Abbott MacNeill Whistler 
Jackson Pollock 
John James Audubon 
Georgia O’Keeffe 
Thomas Eakins 
Thomas Nast 
Alfred Stieglitz 
Ansel Adams 

Religious figures 

Joseph Smith Jr. 
William Penn 
Brigham Young 
Roger Williams 
Anne Hutchinson 
Jonathan Edwards 
L. Ron Hubbard 
Ellen G. White 
Cotton Mather 
Mary Baker Eddy 
Billy Graham 

Pop icons 

Mark Twain 
Elvis Presley 
Madonna 
Bob Dylan 
Michael Jackson 
Charlie Chaplin 
Jimi Hendrix 
Marilyn Monroe 
Frank Sinatra 
Louis Armstrong 
Mary Pickford 

Empire-builders 

Andrew Carnegie 
Henry Ford 
John D. Rockefeller 
J.P. Morgan 
Walt Disney 
Thomas Alva Edison 
William Randolph Hearst 
Howard Hughes 
Bill Gates 
Cornelius Vanderbilt 
Steve Jobs 

Athletes 

Babe Ruth 
Muhammad Ali 
Jackie Robinson 
James Naismith 
Arnold Schwarzenegger 
Ty Cobb 
Michael Jordan 
Hulk Hogan 
Jim Thorpe 
Secretariat 
Billie Jean King 

Wow, so even Charles Manson and Christoper Columbus, who never actually set foot in America, are considered more significant than Barack Obama. 

Hell there is even a horse on the list.

Damn, that is cold!