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If you were asked which President's face to add to the new updated Mt. Rushmore, who would you pick and why?

Bush, but only if they use this picture as a basis.

http://img143.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img143&image=bush1tm.png

Madison. Father of the Constitution.

Bush, but only if they use this picture as a basis.

http://img143.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img143&image=bush1tm.png

lol! That's cute.

Madison. Father of the Constitution.

Good call!

lol! That's cute.
wtf I'm gonna remember your comment on Bush's anti-gay look.

John F. Kennedy. One of the greatest US presidents of all time. :)

F.D.R.

I would also have to say FDR

A big Cheshire grinning horse-toothed Jimmy Carter.:D

I would be happy with Truman, Eisenhower, or Reagan.

Gerald Ford. He's the most recent president who didn't seem to be evil or incompetent. That also hurts my faith in the whole voting system

Why a president? I say, add Frank Zappa.

F.D.R. but if we could put up a non-president then I'd have to say Alexander Hamilton who may have very well been a President if he hadnt died early. He's the basic reason why the U.S. was set on the road to industrialization and pretty much set down the stepping stones to make the US an economic giant down the line. Without him we'd probably be a large agarian society(much like what Jefferson wanted)

Gerald Ford. He's the most recent president who didn't seem to be evil or incompetent. That also hurts my faith in the whole voting system

I am guessing you are not old enough to have seen all his falling down incidents. ;)

I am guessing you are not old enough to have seen all his falling down incidents. ;)I'm not. I based the decision on the number of wars he started, the change in public perception of the office of the president, the level of the budget deficit, the number of Latin American genocides he supported, and the number of times he got caught with his pants down. Zero, increased, low, zero (I think), and zero.

Hamilton deserves a spot up there.

I'm not. I based the decision on the number of wars he started, the change in public perception of the office of the president, the level of the budget deficit, the number of Latin American genocides he supported, and the number of times he got caught with his pants down. Zero, increased, low, zero (I think), and zero.

Ahh but he was a part of the Warren commission. Some conspiracy types think he is part of the coverup.....

Taft, the reason that the White House has a large bath tub, after he got stuck in the first one.

Once, when he was in the philipenes, he had written to another congressman that he had ridden a horse around the island and enjoyed the sights, the responce back was, how is the horse.

Yeah Taft rules.

Why a president? I say, add Frank Zappa.
What are you crazy? This is Mount Rushmore, my vote goes to Geddy Lee.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/250px-Geddy-Lee.jpg

What are you crazy? This is Mount Rushmore, my vote goes to Geddy Lee.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/250px-Geddy-Lee.jpg
Zappa(guitarist) vs Lee(bassist)=Bassist wins, regardless of the name in front

Zappa(guitarist) vs Lee(bassist)=Bassist wins, regardless of the name in front
I think you're missing the point, its Geddy. He could be strumming on a banjo and still rock the crap out of anything in his way.

If we're going by banjo skills I nominate Larry LaLonde

"What are you crazy? This is Mount Rushmore" -Hammolopolis

If it's Mount Rushmore, the next guy up there better be Neal Pert. No other Rush Member has influenced music on as broad of a level as Neil. That, and it's about time a drummer got to be on a national monument :)

None. You don't mess with works of art.

Why don't we paint the Washington Monument puce next?

None. You don't mess with works of art.

Why don't we paint the Washington Monument puce next?


Right on, Brotha Man.

Now tell that to George Lucas.

Either Homer simpson, or this:

http://www.internationalterrorist.com/artwork/s_trystop.jpg

Right on, Brotha Man.

Now tell that to George Lucas.

This is why I have gotten laserdiscs of the original trilogy. However, the analogy is flawed: George Lucas is the artist that created Star Wars. However, adding to Mt. Rushmore is altering the original artist's conception.

What about Saddam Hussein?

Either Homer simpson, or this:

http://www.internationalterrorist.com/artwork/s_trystop.jpg
Homer Simpson: a true american hero

http://www.tidningen.aland.net/gallery/temp/04081309382365.jpg

2 words....Taft!

Why is it 2 words you ask? Because i said so!

Anyways he's 1337! He never started any wars....he was never mean....he was the first president to have a car. And umm... he got stuck in a bathtub once! :D

If I may say one, minor thing....

J.F.K really didn't do anything

Thank you.

He could be strumming on a banjo and still rock the crap out of anything in his way.

Now is not the time to start making negative comments about banjos.

I'd have to say Reagan.

If you were asked which President's face to add to the new updated Mt. Rushmore, who would you pick and why?

The suggestion of Madison isn't a bad one, but I think it really should be left alone. Or, perhaps, a vague image with features that aren't too well defined entitled "The Average Citizen".

The suggestion of Madison isn't a bad one, but I think it really should be left alone. Or, perhaps, a vague image with features that aren't too well defined entitled "The Average Citizen".
i still say use that homer simpson picture i gave

I like the average citizen idea.

i still say use that homer simpson picture i gave

I'd rather not have "Homer Simpson" as a permanent, iconic representative of this country. No offense, but at best, his is a passing fad with little historic significance.

Taft, Ford, or Carter?
Please put the crack pipe.

Truman, Eisenhower, and JFK?
Not hardly.

FDR and Reagan?
The Commie or the Gipper? No.

Andrew Jackson or Alexander Hamilton, Maybe.


How about this one:
http://www.sisterwolf.com/sculpture/med/crazy1med.jpg

I like the average citizen idea.


Thank you. I think it says that this country is still about its citizens, We the People rather than it's Gov. and would provide a permenant iconic link to that idea. Maybe "We the People" would be a better title for the image.

Why a president? I say, add Frank Zappa.

Yeah! Frank Zappa!

F.D.R. but if we could put up a non-president then I'd have to say Alexander Hamilton who may have very well been a President if he hadnt died early. He's the basic reason why the U.S. was set on the road to industrialization and pretty much set down the stepping stones to make the US an economic giant down the line. Without him we'd probably be a large agarian society(much like what Jefferson wanted)

I'm pretty sure he was born in the West Indies and was ineligible to be President. Even though it could be considered a bit silly to demand that a candidate be born IN the US before there WAS a US to be born in.

I'd say JFK. Once the details of the whole Bay of Pigs and the embargo things became known I'd say JFK did nothing less than save the world, and he gets the real credit for ending the Cold War, even though it was an affair that was bigger than himself and took many years after to finally play itself out.

I'd say JFK. Once the details of the whole Bay of Pigs and the embargo things became known I'd say JFK did nothing less than save the world, and he gets the real credit for ending the Cold War, even though it was an affair that was bigger than himself and took many years after to finally play itself out.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I'd say JFK. Once the details of the whole Bay of Pigs and the embargo things became known I'd say JFK did nothing less than save the world, and he gets the real credit for ending the Cold War, even though it was an affair that was bigger than himself and took many years after to finally play itself out.
ROTFLMAOAY :gundge:

That is the most absurd shit I have read in weeks.

I like the citizen idea. I vote for Mr. Magoo. Either that or the heorine atrophied visage of Corey Haim.

i second katganistans opinion. you dont mess with other people's artwork

luckily (and i mean that because the most likely addition would be ronald regan *shudder*) there isnt enough good granite left to put up another face.

If you were asked which President's face to add to the new updated Mt. Rushmore, who would you pick and why?

You can't change the faces, because that's where the headquarters for Team America is located.

I say we add Anton LaVey, just to piss people off.

If you were asked which President's face to add to the new updated Mt. Rushmore, who would you pick and why?
FDR. even though i disagree with a lot of the things he did, he was the only chap to be elected 4 goddam times, and he got America through one of the blackest chapters in our nation's history. that deserves some recognition.

FDR. even though i disagree with a lot of the things he did, he was the only chap to be elected 4 goddam times, and he got America through one of the blackest chapters in our nation's history. that deserves some recognition.

Yes, let's give some recognition to the man who rounded up innocent Japanese Americans and put them in concentration camps.

There's no *room* to add more faces, unless you went to another mountain.

That said, if it was hypothetically possible, I'd vote for Rutherford B. Hayes!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rh19.html

Not only would he look good up there, but he's the only President that refused a second term when he probably would have won! (Of course, he also was the victor of a disputed election...)

-Markreich

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Yes, let's give some recognition to the man who rounded up innocent Japanese Americans and put them in concentration camps.

Yeah. Pity he didn't get the Italians and Germans too. :rolleyes: C'mon. The man did a lot of good in 12 years. No President ever makes all the right calls.

-Markreich

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How 'bout Jefferson Davis?

FDR is the only logical choice.

FDR is the only logical choice.
Yes, the forcible internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps is more memorable than anything that any other American President did.

Yes, let's give some recognition to the man who rounded up innocent Japanese Americans and put them in concentration camps.
i was thinking more about the man who created employment for hundreds of thousands of Americans, in many cases saving them from literal starvation. and about the man who (for better or worse) was elected by the people an unprecidented 4 consecutive times.

the presidents who are already on Mount Rushmore all had reprehensible parts of their lives, but that does not mean we should ignore the service they rendered to the country. FDR was a great man, in the "of extreme significance" connotation of the word, and that cannot be denied...even if you think he wasn't "great" in the "really good" sense of the word.

Yes, let's give some recognition to the man who rounded up innocent Japanese Americans and put them in concentration camps.

It wa either that or let the American people form lynch mobs and have the Japanese-Americans killed by angry mobs. For FDR, he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't, so he did, and many damn him for it.

i was thinking more about the man who created employment for hundreds of thousands of Americans, in many cases saving them from literal starvation. and about the man who (for better or worse) was elected by the people an unprecidented 4 consecutive times.

the presidents who are already on Mount Rushmore all had reprehensible parts of their lives, but that does not mean we should ignore the service they rendered to the country. FDR was a great man, in the "of extreme significance" connotation of the word, and that cannot be denied...even if you think he wasn't "great" in the "really good" sense of the word.

Then by that logic, everyone who hates Bush on this forum should now cut Bush some slack.

Personally, I think we should finish Mount Rushmore before we start adding to it. Some of you may recall that, originally, it was meant to be full-body figures of the presidents, not just the faces. The guy stopped because he ran out of funding.

Bill Clinton (with a small carving of Monica L hidden in it) ! :p