This "Greatest Americans" list seems to suffer from the typical "overly-simplified-test-group-attempts-to-create-comprehensive-list" syndrome. Gather up some excessively enthusiastic, prejudiced persons, tally their thoughts, and this is the kind of crap that comes out. Regardless of topic or place, when was the last time anybody read some "definitive" or "top 100" style list from some "official" source and didn't call it a crock of shit? I remember that Rolling Stone's top 500 song list all too well...
The point is, there's no need to invest any sort of interest in stuff like this. They satisfy the makers and their followers, and that's about it. If people responding to a television vote were really the end all voice to determine the greatest Americans, the world would be a sad, sad place.
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