If I were add a face to Mount Rushmore, it would be...

[Pryderi]

FDR.

Which American President would you choose?

[niyad]

1. I wouldn't, and I wish the other carvings were not there. those lands are sacred to the lakota

[WinkyDink]

2. So how do you feel about the rest of the United States?

[uppityperson]

19. Other places that were Sacred places should not be carved up either.

This was not just a "wow, this is a really important place" but truly sacred. Unfortunately the Black Hills had gold in them too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Ditto.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. + brazillion

[Warpy]

41. Same here. I always think that carving men's faces into a mountain

was an act of vandalism, even without the Lakota reverence for the site.

Perhaps the next Ice Age will erase them.

[ZombieHorde]

3. Not a President, but I would add Gary Gygax. nt

[Posteritatis]

38. I can get behind that, if just to mess with future archaeologists. (nt)

[NoOneMan]

4. Millard Fillmore

[Speck Tater]

5. I'd carve Frank Zappa's face on the moon.

Big enough to see from earth without a telescope.

Either him or Bugs Bunny. It would be a tough choice.

[kentauros]

52. Chairface Chippendale would be my choice:

[Autumn]

6. John Lennon or Sheldon Cooper

I don't think it needs another President

[Robb]

7. Well, if I get to decide, I pick myself.

I mean, if I've done something awesome enough to get to decide who gets to be added to Mount Rushmore, clearly I'm awesome enough to be on Mount Rushmore.

Give the people what they want. Or what they apparently want, having ceded to me the authority to re-shape iconic national monuments.

[11 Bravo]

8. I've always thought that it should be called Mount Dingbat!

[RBInMaine]

9. FDR

[lonestarnot]

10. Mr. President's face and John Kennedy's face..

[RebelOne]

18. Great choice. JFK first and then Obama. n/t

[Pacafishmate]

20. You need to put down the Kool-Aid if you would seriously consider Obama.

a) It would be very creepy to put a living person on Mt. Rushmore and b) Obama is not a Mt. Rushmore grade president.

[Scuba]

23. I agree on your first point. Your second point, coupled with your fantasies about ...

... the cost of solar panels, is costing you major credibility.

[Pacafishmate]

25. Hahahaha

Maybe I'm on the wrong forum. I thought this was a progressive forum, not a centrist-corporatist one? I've got nothing against Obama, but you have to be in serious denial to think that he is anywhere near ideal. He is better than the alternative. Get back to me when he stops supporting policies that send people to jail for smoking the wrong kind of plant. Get back to me when he stops supporting crazy authoritarian shit like NDAA,SOPA,PIPA, Patriot act, etc., etc. If you see him as anything but a perpetuation of the establishment, then you are in denial.

[Scuba]

26. You're correct that he's far from perfect ....

... just miles better than any alternative.

[TheKentuckian]

54. How credible is it to place Obama or even Kennedy over FDR?

I'd place LBJ in front of both as well.


Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I don't see where the credibility gap is for not leapfrogging Obama over the only four term President who saw the nation through the Great Depression and World War II or the President who passed the Voting Rights Act, The Great Society, and Medicare.

Or maybe are considering other Presidents who had substantial contributions or influence on the shape of the nation.

[nevergiveup]

11. Skinner would be my first choice followed by

Babe Ruth or possibly Annie Oakley. There needs to be more variety on Mount Rushmore.

[undeterred]

13. Then we should consider Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton.

[Jackpine Radical]

36. Not enough space for her hair.

Nor for…

Oh wait, it would only be the head. till, not enough rock for the hair.

[Samantha]

40. The thing that is outstanding about Willie Nelson is not just his body of work

it is that he still just keeps getting better and better. I saw them in an interview the other night, and I was just blown away (again). He is in a class by himself.

And Dolly Parton, she is my cousin so of course I am prejudiced. But the amount of her giving back to different communities in Tennessee is awesome. Her great musical contributions are outstanding, but looking at the profits from that music and how she chose to share it, is just so amazing.

Sam

PS I did not know Willie Nelson wrote Crazy. In the interview, he mentioned that he originally named it "Stupid." Can you believe that?

[undeterred]

42. They are both really unique and wonderful artists.

And Dolly does sound like a lovely person too.

That's funny that he named it Stupid! Glad he thought better of it!

[Fla_Democrat]

44. Dolly Parton has her own mountains

I think somewhere in Tennessee.

[undeterred]

12. Gerald Ford.

Everyone would say Who is that guy?

[Locut0s]

14. Waldo... Oh there he IS! Wow he wasn't that hard to find after all... nt

[Honeycombe8]

15. We couldn't afford to have that done, these days. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. All you need is an adaptation of a 3D printer

You could make an accurate 3d model of someone's face from photos, and then have a computer-controlled chiselling machine to sculpt the rock as needed.

[Ian David]

21. President Thomas J. Whitmore

Or Lone Star.

Either one.

[lonestarnot]

43. Who is lonestar?

[Jennicut]

49. Spaceballs.

I watched it as a kid in the 80's and then just watched it the other night with my kids. A total spoof of Star Wars. Kind of a cult classic.

[GeorgeGist]

22. Elizabeth Warren.

[melody]

24. John Adams n/t

[Nye Bevan]

30. My choice too. A modest plain-spoken New Englander,

who never owned a single slave, unlike certain other occupants of Mt Rushmore I could mention.

[melody]

53. Exactly

He did most of the things Jefferson gets credit for. He's also a much-undervalued writer on the topic of revolution. He was the singular most important founding father -- and hardly anyone knew his name prior to McCullough's book.

[godai]

27. Taylor Swift

Just joking...can't really think of anyone who deserves it.

[whistler162]

29. John Hanson......

the first President!

http://www.marshallhall.org/hanson.html

[Demonaut]

31. David Hasslehof

[treestar]

32. I think it should be left alone

as a monument to its time. One of the Presidents there is no big deal now. It's the type of excess those years indulged in.

We have so many photos and videos now, we don't need statues.

[joesdaughter]

33. Mother Jones

Mary Harris Jones

[FSogol]

34. Roberto Clemente

Groucho Marx
Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut

[ohiosmith]

35. None! Lenny Bruce.

[flying rabbit]

37. Snake Plisskin

He saved the President. It would also be bad-ass.

[ZM90]

39. FDR n/t

[yourout]

45. Vince Lombardi.

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[edbermac]

46. Pee Wee Herman

[yourout]

47. Alfred E Neuman.

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[JackRiddler]

48. Sitting Bull, obviously.

[Jennicut]

50. No one.

Until they fix The Old Man of the Mountain in NH first.

Just kidding, sort of.

[Botany]

51. Homer Simpson

[Bad_Ronald]

55. I agree with adding FDR

[Iggy]

56. FRANK ZAPPA

mostly because he was a huge advocate of free speech.

[RubyDuby in GA]

57. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

Or FDR. Either one

[Historic NY]

58. I agree he made the biggest impact on generations of Americans...

[David__77]

59. None, it is besmirched by T. Roosevelt.

I wouldn't want to elevate him by association. I'm not too crazy about Jefferson either.

[rateyes]

60. Crazy Horse

[Historic NY]

62. he has his own mountain

http://crazyhorsememorial.org/

[Drew Richards]

61. Grouch Marx

[greendog]

63. George Carlin

And I know he's not a former president but I think he belongs up there with those other guys.