The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it. The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: In your opinion, who is the most overrated person in history?
Talk about it.
Gavin Newson, Karen Bass, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barak Obama.
Taylor Swift.
Obama comes to mind, as well as Adam Sandler, Greta Thunberg, and Neil Young. I would add Amy Schumer, but I don’t think anybody rates her highly.
Abraham Lincoln. He is a so so president.
You can’t stand it when a Republican President takes away your source of cheap labor.
Eric Clapton. I sis what I said.
Right with ya there. 🎸
Absolutely right!! And Neil Young
Yes to Neil Young but not Clapton.
Well, since we’re going down this road, I’ll add Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, and Taylor Swift to that list.
Steely Dan, wtf?
Yeah, I’ve heard that before.
Jimi Hendrix… just noise!
obama
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Nobel Peace Prize is forever cheapened and tainted.
Barak Hussein Obama
he crossed my mind, but the question is who “is” not “was” and I do not think little o has the juice he had, in fact, I get the sense he is not rated highly by anybody but the media at this point. He showed how weak and ineffectual he has become when he tried to convince that group of young black men to vote for kammie. After that colossal fail, he kind of slinked back into relative obscurity.
John Lennon.
Can’t mention John without Yoko.
John and Yoko joined Frank Zappa live on stage in New York.
Flo and Eddie put a bag over her head to drown out her caterwauling.
To be fair, she is an incredible artist, but the opposite of an incredible singer.
Yucko Oh NO ?
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. JFK wanted to end the spread of communism, so he came up
with a hair brained idea that Vietnam would be a good place to start. He said that if South Vietnam fell to communism, then other Southeast Asian countries would also fall. JFK sent more military advisors, and authorized the use of chemical weapons such as Agent Orange, which caused immense suffering and long term health problems. Over 58,000 Americans
lost their lives in Vietnam, and some of them were my friends. I will never forgive that evil monster.
Then there was the Cuban Missile Crises, where Kennedy came very close to starting a nuclear war with the USSR. JFK ordered the deployment of nuclear missiles to Turkey,
aimed at Moscow. In retaliation, Khrushchev had nuclear missiles deployed to Cuba aimed
at the US. Kennedy plays the big shot and surrounds Cuba with warships, blocking the Soviets from entering Cuban waters, then tells Khrushchev if he removes their missiles from Cuba, the US will remove their missiles from Turkey. In my opinion, Kennedy was one of the biggest warmongers in US history, and I didn’t even get into the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
Donald J Trump
Yeah, I said it.
Doesn’t history implies that it should be someone from the past.? Trump is still making history so too early to judge.
Current presidency, I give you that, but he’s been in the media spotlight over-selling himself for decades.
JFK
Edison…. not genius simply cunning. Was able to stand on the backs of his employees and claim the spoils.
https://despair.com/collections/retired/products/ruthlessness
If someone steals a Tesla, does it become an Edison?
yes. as history repeats
As those who read my comments here they know I’m not a Trump fan, just trying to be fair. As much as I love music, I don’t necessarily musicians belong in this discussion. History implies someone political, head of state, king, Queen, prime minister, someone like Ghandi or Martin Luther King, who by taking a stand brought about change for the better.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/523191681692193121/
any rapper, or member of the rainbow coalition
Mark Zuckerberg.
Donald Trump, who incredibly was twice elected president. He is a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist. He is known to not read and to be intellectually incurious. He is a blatant grifter and blatantly corrupt. In his second term he has appointed the most unqualified cabinet in US history. And now he is presiding over the dismantling of our federal institutions. He will go down in history as by far the worst president, bypassing both Herbert Hoover and Andrew Johnson.
Concord guy, I hope you are wrong about everything. Our country couldn’t have lasted another 4 yrs the way it was going, and if you can’t see that you are blind with your head buried in the sand. Our country was being over run by illegals;:he closed the borders. We were heading towards bankruptcy with a 37 trillion $ debt. Dismantling of our overgrown financial institutions that have become too large with waste and corruption might be the best thing he has done. God bless America.
Then there is the record debt that Trump ran up in his first term. But that is an inconvenient truth the Trump fanboys.
Thank you for your National Enquirer level post.
The prime time TV Fast Food worshipping citizens probably totally agree with you.
I came here to say Obama and I see that I’m definitely not the only one that agrees with that choice. What killed me was the Nobel Peace Prize. Forever meaningless now.
In no particular order
A.T. I totally agree with all but one.
I’m with you on about 60% of those.
Barak Obomo.
The epitome of voting someone into office not by their achievements and abilities, but their race.
Many that voted for Obama voted for him because they liked his message, you cannot dismiss all that voted for him as someone that voted for him for one reason only, his race.
Jamarcus Russell
That was such a disappointment. It turned out to be one of the biggest busts in NFL history.
Bill Gates.
He never invented a thing. He bought DOS and was fortunate that computer makers adopted DOS as their language. He’s promoted as a genius when he is really just a weird guy who was in the right place at the right time.
The Forrest Gump of our generation..
George Floyd. Prove me wrong.
Trump obviously…
Greta. Hillary. Obama. Megan and Harry.
Whoever the first person was who showed the classless feral base that they could make money — legally chanting absolute filth at, to and about women … and call it music.