Does the US have the same cult of personality that Iraq under Saddam had?

[ck4829]

I was reading the thread "What if Iraq invaded the US" recently and I was reminded of the PR stunt when US troops pulled down Saddam's statue and said that Iraqis did it. I thought to myself, "What PR stunts would the Iraqis pull off to mark the totality of the invasion?"

And then I realized...

Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway portion of Interstate 65 from Birmingham to Decatur) in Alabama
Ronald Reagan Spirit of America Field, Decatur, Alabama
The Ronald Reagan Fundamental School, Yuma, Arizona
Ronald Reagan Road, Kingman, Arizona
The Ronald Reagan Highway (Interstate 25 throughout El Paso County)
Florida's Turnpike designated the Ronald Reagan Turnpike, though the existing name was not changed.
Ronald Reagan Post Office Building, West Melbourne, Florida
Ronald W. Reagan Doral High School, a high school in the suburbs of Miami
Ronald Reagan Avenue, Miami, Florida renamed from its numerical name a major corridor in Miami.
Ronald Reagan Parkway, Tampa, Florida
Ronald Reagan Boulevard, Seminole County County Road 427, which kept the existing number but had all street signs changed
Ronald Reagan Parkway, formerly Polk County County Road 54
Ronald Reagan Parkway in Gwinnett County, Georgia
I-469 Ronald Reagan Expressway Fort Wayne, Indiana
Ronald Reagan Parkway Avon, Indiana
Ronald Reagan Highway (US 190)
Ronald Reagan Parkway, Lake St. Louis, Missouri
Ronald W. Reagan Elementary School. Omaha.
Ronald Reagan School #30 - Elizabeth, New Jersey
Ronald Reagan Boulevard - Warwick, New York
Ronald Wilson Reagan High School, Pfafftown, Forsyth County in North Carolina
Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway (State Route 126 north of Cincinnati), 1997 in Ohio
Reagan Parkway (East-West Thoroughfare on the north side of town) Medina, Ohio
Reagan Park, Medina, Ohio
Ronald Reagan Voice of Freedom Park, West Chester, Ohio
Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse, in Harrisburg (named on March 9, 2004) in Pennsylvania
Ronald Reagan Drive, in the Philadelphia suburb of Richland Township (2002)
Ronald Regan Avenue, Hickory Creek, Texas
Ronald Reagan High School, San Antonio
Ronald Reagan Memorial Highway, Arlington, Texas
Ronald Reagan Middle School, Grand Prairie, Texas
Ronald Reagan Building, Harris County Department of Education, Houston, Texas
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (formerly Washington National Airport)
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Metro Station (formerly National Airport Metro Station) On April 19, 2001 the WMATA Board voted to not rename the station. However, subsequent Republican Party Congressional threats to withhold funding caused the renaming over the objection of local leaders and residents.
Ronald Wilson Reagan Memorial Highway (State Route 234, dedicated to Reagan in 2005), Prince William County
The Reagan Building (Richmond City)
Ronald Wilson Reagan College Preparatory High School, Milwaukee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_honors_named_for_Ronald_Reagan

Those Iraqis would have be very busy tearing down OUR statues to our cult of personality.

[hobbit709]

1. Back when they started wanting to name everything after Ronnie Raygun

Someone suggested that the ideal place for a Reagan Memorial would be in the center of The Great Dismal Swamp.

[mwb970]

2. It is conservatives who do this, not Americans.

The right-wing focus on symbols, shooting the messenger, and ancestor worship is going to do us all in.

[Thothmes]

3. How many

Schools, streets and other facilities are named after Martin Luther King. How any JFK or John F Kennedy streets, schools and other facilities are there in this country.

[ck4829]

6. I don't think there are any...

organizations dedicated to renaming everything under the sun to JFK, and I don't think anyone has ever threatened to cut off funding to an organization if they didn't rename themselves after Martin Luther King.

[madokie]

4. What that long list of raygun named entities show is that the people who runs things are the ones

who benefited from the raygun/bush1 years the most and very little more. methinks:-)

[NoPasaran]

5. Well, gee...

The State of Washington

Washington County, Alabama
Washington County, Arkansas
Washington County, Colorado
Washington County, D.C., a former subdivision of the district, abolished in 1871
Washington County, Florida
Washington County, Georgia
Washington County, Idaho
Washington County, Illinois
Washington County, Indiana
Washington County, Iowa
Washington County, Kansas
Washington County, Kentucky
Washington Parish, Louisiana
Washington County, Maryland
Washington County, Maine
Washington County, Minnesota
Washington County, Missouri
Washington County, Mississippi
Washington County, Nebraska
Washington County, New York
Washington County, North Carolina
Washington County, Ohio
Washington County, Oklahoma
Washington County, Oregon
Washington County, Pennsylvania
Washington County, Rhode Island
Washington County, South Dakota, a former county of South Dakota (1883-1943)
Washington County, Tennessee
Washington County, Texas
Washington County, Utah
Washington County, Virginia
Washington County, Vermont
Washington County, Wisconsin

Georgetown, Kentucky
Washington, Georgia
Washington, Pennsylvania
Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital
Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania
Washington Terrace, Utah
Washington, Kansas
Washington, Illinois
Washington, Indiana
Washington, Iowa
Washington, Missouri
Washington, New Jersey
Washingtonville, New York
Washingtonville, Pennsylvania
Washington, North Carolina
Washington Court House, Ohio
(and, according to Wikipedia, about 2,000,000 other places)

Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington
Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington
Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky
The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
University Of Washington in Seattle, Washington
Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania
Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia
Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington

Port Washington, New York
Port Washington, Ohio
Port Washington, Wisconsin

Washington Heights, Chicago
Washington Heights, Manhattan

George Washington Bridge, crossing from New Jersey to New York
George Washington Memorial Parkway in D.C., maintained by the U.S. National Park Service

Washington Island in Wisconsin
Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas

USS George Washington, the submarine
USS George Washington, the aircraft carrier
SS George Washington, passenger liner that carried President Wilson to France for the 1919 Peace Conference

George Washington's portrait appears on the US One Dollar Bill, the Twenty-five cent coin, and on numerous postage stamps.

[stray cat]

7. No

[PVnRT]

8. No. That is being perpetrated by a group of people

...attempting to propagandize everyone else that Reagan was the greatest president ever. There are people that worship the man, but it's a relatively small group.