Do you folks agree with the picks?: Welcome to America's hall of shame

[mr blur]

In at least one obvious way, 2008 was a pretty good year in my country. We made history in electing an African-American president. I and 67 million of my fellow citizens brought the era of conservative dominance to a thundering close. For those of us who've been told for eight years that we weren't real Americans - liberals, urbanites, non-believers, cabernet-sippers, same-sex lovers, anti-war-mongerers, Volvo drivers - well, the tables have turned. We're the real Americans now.

But ill winds still blew, and blow, across the republic. It being the duty of journalism to take the measure of these winds, I hereby dedicate my year-end column to ranking some of the worst Americans of the year. It started as a bottom 10 list, but consultations with various associates persuaded me that 10 was not enough, and further research suggested that a non-round and totally capricious number better suited the exercise. Herewith, the Tomasky List of the 19 Worst Americans of 2008.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/31/usa-palin-barack

[newfie11]

1. Bush & Cheney should share the #1 spot n/t

[Hissyspit]

2. Lots more people could be on it, but good list over all.

[Hissyspit]

4. LOL:

2 Sarah Palin. Does she really deserve to be this high? Never in my adult lifetime has one politician so perfectly embodied everything that is malign about my country: the proto-fascist nativism, the know-nothingism, the utterly cavalier lack of knowledge about the actual principles on which the country was founded. So, heck, you betcha she does!

[Skittles]

3. there could be hundreds on that list

but the picks are solid

[Lasher]

5. Move Don Blankenship up a notch or two.

He effectively bought a WV Supreme Court seat for Republican Brent Benjamin in 2004, but we West Virginians have since wised up and his money has been wasted in succeeding elections.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23669-2004Nov3.html

He's kinda like the Dick Cheney of the coal industry.

[Kahuna]

6. The most glaring omission is Alberto Gonzalez. nt