WHOSE YOUR HERO AMERICA? BARACK OBAMA #1, GOD #11

WHO IS #1?

BARACK OBAMA

President Barack Obama’s popularity overwhelms that of Jesus Christ, God, Martin Luther King, and Mother Teresa, according to a new poll that shows Obama as the person Americans named as their hero.  The Harris Poll, released on Thursday, was conducted on 2,634 U.S. adults between Jan. 12 to 19, 2009 – just ahead of President Obama’s inauguration.

American adults (age 18 and over) spontaneously named President Obama as the person they admire enough to call their hero in a Harris Poll.  READ FULL STORY

“The fact that President Obama is mentioned more often than Jesus Christ should not be misinterpreted,” The Harris Poll clarified in its report. “No list was used and nobody was asked to choose between them.”  HERE IS THE USA'S TOP TEN LIST + ONE:

#1 BARACK OBAMA

#2 JESUS CHRIST

#3 MARTIN LUTHER KING

#4 RONALD REAGAN

#5 GEORGE W. BUSH

#6 ABRAHAM LINCOLN

#7 JOHN MCCAIN

#8 JOHN F. KENNEDY

#9 CHESLEY SULLENBERGER

#10 MOTHER TERESA

#11 GOD

Respondents gave multiple reasons for their choice of heroes, including: doing what’s right regardless of personal consequences (89 percent); not giving up until the goal is accomplished (83 percent); doing more than what other people expect of them (82 percent); overcoming adversity (81 percent); and staying level-headed in a crisis (81 percent).

Only 14 percent of Americans said they admire either their mother or father enough to call them their hero. In contrast, nearly half (49 percent) said a public figure is someone they admire and consider a personal hero.

SO WHO IS YOUR HERO?  PERSONALLY BARACK OBAMA WOULD NOT HAD MADE THE INVISIBLE HAND'S LIST, GOD & JESUS CHRIST WOULD BE #1.

-LEX REX