You can't be serious, Amos!!! What about William Shatner?

But such lists are meaningless bullshit anyway, demonstrating nothing but the fickle attention span of a media-addled public that, like domesticated farm animals, will always eat exactly what is put in the trough in front of them.

Your silly list of polls about "the most admired man in America" is as laughable and patheticically superficial and predictable and ephemeral as People Magazine's yearly poll to determine who is "the sexiest man in America". Who really gives a shit? ;-) I know I don't. Some of the past ones I can vaguely recall (I saw them while standing at the grocery checkout line) were Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, and...most recently, Johnny Depp.

I think I sort of agree in Johnny Depp's case...but I digress... ;-)

Because it's bullshit, bullshit, bullshit...delivered on a plate by the mass media who have themselves sculpted and choreographed the very phenomenon by what they themselves chose to put in the public trough and focus on obsessively until it became its own self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's like watching a room full of manatees masturbate and then congratulate themselves for it after attaining a group orgasm.

Note, Amos: I say all of the above not in anger, but with a wry smile on my face. It's damned funny watching this monkey-brained civilization go through its silly PR-generated inanities like this business of a poll to determine the "most admired man in America".

It has nothing to do with the relative value of Obama, his policies, and his performance in office. Nothing. Nada. Zippo. Zilch. It has everything to do with the mass media and a lobotomized public that eats whatever is put in its daily trough and delivers the approved Pavlovian response when the bell is rung.