7 Great Men in History (And Why You Should Hate Them)

While there's probably a way to convince me Ghandi was an asshole, defending Hitler just makes him honest. Perhaps too honest, but honest. Adolf had some decent ideas.. he just followed through with them using genocide and all.

dont hate fdr for being a cripple. hate him for extending the great depression for so long with all his crazy ass programs

Pardon me if someone already mentioned it, but how could Sally Heming's be both a slave and Jefferson's wife's sister? A member of the Continental Congress marrying a Negress prob wouldn't have flown under the radar...

I love the conversation between Patrick and his Wife.

to D.pict - but you are pretentious enough to impose your ingnorance on other people comments about the articles?

We should hate FDR because he couldn't walk? If this is your attempt at humor, you should be ashamed of yourself.

I just like things that make me laugh. There's a little bit of proselytizing going on with Cracked and I just am not down with it. The Woodrow Wilson excerpt-I really don't care about his opinions on race. He was a brilliant man. It would have been funnier if the writer would have gotten ill on him for having a stroke and being a retard for the last year and a half of his Presidency. If you want to parse every President and administration, you would uncover endless flaws, you know. But I guess, the thing is to me, a writer's moral compass doesn't make me laugh. In fact, I could give a fuck about your moral compass!!! And usually, the writers who assert their compass on readers are the lamest. One of the reasons that Cracked is not as funny as it used to be is because there is an air of political correctness that stinks all the way to here. Smells a lot like pussy, albeit a rotten one. The "Wong Doctrine". Feh.

Well, look at it this way, FDR was still a better president than Bush. Although they do have one thing in common, Bush no longer has a leg to stand on either. /rimshot.

A wheelchair has no bearing on whether or not he was a great American. Fact was, he was a greater American than many men/women ever were or ever will be. When you can support yourself by strictly your arms while giving a speech and fool the American public for at least a decent while then we can talk. But until then, you can certainly find worse Americans than that. Oh and 5th cousins, its not like oh my child has numerous disfigurements and is mentally retarded. So, put Mother Teresa up there or something, she helped fund Mama and Papa Doc. That's pretty bad in my opinion. I do not know if you are all about genocide, but I am not.

Long time Cracked reader, don't bother reading comments often, and REALLY don't delve into some of the incredibly stupid arguments that go on. But I must post a response to this FDR skirmish. Cracked was absolutely right about FDR being a dick because he couldn't walk, they just never said who he was being a dick TO. The answer: handicapped people. In an effort to not appear weak, he maintained a long-standing (and forgotten-in-present-day) charade to hide his handicap. Ever see footage of his "day of infamy" speech? He's standing while speaking from a podium. Pictures of him meeting foreign delegates in the Rose Garden? Standing. Bending his secretary over her desk? Standing. The point is that he leaned heavily on a podium, an aide paid to be his support (not kidding), or very occassionally, a cane in order to appear to be "normal." This sparked a small controversy in the late '90s when a statue was to be erected in his honor. Handicapped citizens wanted the statue to depict him in a wheelchair, showing that the disabled (walking-wise) are super-abled leadership-wise. Some historians preferred the statue's original design depicting Roosevelt standing, as he preferred to be depicted in life. Why? Because "fuck you, handicapped people can't be world leaders" ...says Roosevelt's implied message. So yeah, he was a dick for not being able to walk, because he hid it to perpetuate the idea that a handicapped person couldn't possibly be strong enough to take on Hitler while staving off Stalin.

Corbsta, the fact that he was an economic illiterate who continued to make the same mistakes again and again and again means he wasn't a great leader.

I absolutely love cracked, but you kinda killed it there w/ the F.D. R. and the wheelchair. Just because he was in a wheelchair doesnt mean that he wasn't a great leader

ps heh heh heh, gosh but doesn't everyone get wound up easily these days...and I thought the UK public were bad...yeah its a terrible, awful thing to say and if it hadn't been calculated PURELY to get people wound up and ranting, I mite be cross too.

to gapingmaw - this article (to my knowlege) is not flawed or incorrect. a quick google search would comfirm it. FDR was married to his fifth cousin's daughter. not exactly the same, but who knows what to call that. barely constitutes as family, but still related.

Wheres Ronald Mcdonald in this list huh? The man invented intergalactic space-travel, funded twelve orphanariums, and was known to dive into frozen lakes to save stranded puppies (how do they keep getting out on those frozen lakes anyway?) On the other hand, he fathered the mutant child Grimace with Margaret Thatcher and once, when still young and new to the force, he shot a nun. A great man indeed, but deeply flawed...

I agree with macsnafu in the first comment, the wheelchair is too much. Not to mention what a rip off of Maddox the writing style is.

Sure, this is Cracked! And sure, it's a humor article. But I really don't find anything funny about FDR's polio and wheelchair-bound status. No, we should hate FDR for doing everything possible to not get us out of the Depression, however unintentional. He didn't understand the economy any better than most presidents, including our latest, GW Bush.

Now that you mention it, Ghandi is a bit of a douchebag. He goes around preaching nonviolence but only because other people do all the fighting/dirty work and he takes the credit. No, Ghandi didn't help liberate India from Britain, he just took credit. Theres also the racial stuff as someone pointed out. Also, while we're at it, be sure to add the Dali Lama to the list, everyones hero. Hes a bit of a dickwad as well.

...Seriously? You guys are all kidding, right? You do all understand the FDR post was a JOKE...right? RIGHT? You did see the statement in the middle where he was married to his cousin? Jesus, Mary and green hats of Joseph, what a bunch of easily provoked masses we've become. Incidentally, Cracked, I don't overlook your trolling play in all this. This is your form of entertainment, isn't it?

It's amazing how much armchair political correctness get thrown around these days. FDR didn't suck because he had polio, it's the fact that the social programs that he started did not have the foresight to be sustainable for future generations (Although, later administrations helped the decline). It's also a widely accepted "rumor" that Eleanor ran things at the end... Besides that, addressing the detractors of humor,if you don't like the program, change the channel. You remind of ignorant parents who complain that media isn't doing enough to protect their children. How to solve an issue like that? Hmmm, try taking responsibility for what you voluntarily, mentally ingest. I personally do not always find the humor in every article that I read on Cracked or any other medium. However, if I don't understand it, I am not pretentious enough to impose my ignorance on the subject. Also, bear in mind that history is written by the winners...