Discovery's "Greatest American" Poll: You can vote from pay-phones

[Ian David]

I've heard it suggested that we should vote for FDR as a way to snub Bush's Social Security plan.

You and I all know that FDR would roll over in his grave if he knew what Bush was doing.

But the right-wing talking heads have been managing to spin it differently and claim that FDR intended Social Security as some kind of temporary measure or something.

I think the only unequivocal, "non-spinable" choices we have are:

1) Bill Clinton
2) Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Personally, I'm a big fan of Clinton's, and he IS really great, but he is by no means "The Greatest American Ever," and to vote for him as such would be rightfully viewed as disingenuous, IMHO.

If you try and call more than three times, the computer will not acknowledge your vote.

So, I am urging everyone to vote early and often for Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Call three times from every pay-phone you can find:

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
1-866-669-3116

Also, does anyone know if you can call multiple times from an office building that has individual extensions / PBX system? In other words, can you run around your office going from desk-to-desk and calling three times from each phone?

Seek out airports, train stations, hotel lobbies-- anyplace that has a large bank of pay-phones.

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Discover Channel's "Greatest American"...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3798540


Apparently The Giggling Murder Made The "Greatest American" Top 25: VOTE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1831700


Here are the choices:

Muhammed Ali
Lance Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
George W. Bush

Bill Clinton
Call 1-866-669-3105

Walt Disney
Thomas Alva Edison
Albert Einstein
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklin
Bill Gates
Billy Graham
Bob Hope
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy (JFK)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Call 1-866-669-3116

Abraham Lincoln
Rosa Parks
Elvis Presley
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
George Washington
Oprah Winfrey
Wright Brothers

See:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/greatestamerican/top25/top25.html