Survey on "Most Admired People" Demonstrates How Easily Duped Americans Are

In yet another sign of why America is heading down the toilet, a recent Gallup poll of "Most Admired American Men and Women" placed President Hopey-Changey and his warmongering Secretary of State at the top of the list for men and women, respectively. Here is USA Today with the details:

President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are the nation's most-admired man and woman — again — in the annual USA TODAY/Gallup Poll.

Each leads their category with 17% of votes in top 10 lists that favor the most familiar names in global politics, religion, entertainment and culture.

Linda Dinco, 62, of Latrobe, Pa., says she named Obama and Secretary of State Clinton for their "intelligence and their toughness."

Because it takes an awful lot of smarts and bravery to sit in an air conditioned office, surrounded by countless layers of security and order the most omnipotent military force the world has ever seen to wreak death and destruction on some lightly armed, brown skinned people on the far side of the planet. And lest you think I'm being unfair to Hillary by lumping her in with Obama, remember that not only did she vote for the Iraq War, she was the administration's leading hawk calling for the Afghanistan surge.

Things don't get a whole lot better from there as you move down the list. Here are the top ten for each gender:

Most admired men

1) Barack Obama

2) George W. Bush

3) Bill Clinton

4) Rev. Billy Graham

5) Warren Buffett

6-tie) Newt Gingrich

6-tie) Donald Trump

8) Pope Benedict XVI

9) Bill Gates

10) Thomas Monson

Most admired women

1) Hillary Clinton

2) Oprah Winfrey

3) Michelle Obama

4) Sarah Palin

5) Condoleezza Rice

6) Laura Bush

7-tie) Margaret Thatcher

7-tie) Ellen DeGeneres

9-tie) Queen Elizabeth

9-tie) Michele Bachmann

Personally, I would put about half of those people on my respective bottom 10 lists of the LEAST ADMIRED men and women and exactly NONE of them would make my top 1000 let alone my top 10. But then again, I already knew I wasn't exactly marching along in lock step with the program.

Easily Duped and Easily Led - a perfect motto to replace Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.