Posted on 07/04/2019 10:00:18 AM PDT by Enlightened1
“Why the hell would Jeb Bush post this today?”
Governor Jeb Bush provoked a backlash after he sent a strange tweet about presidents who died on July 4, with many taking it as a veiled dig at President Trump.
“Three Presidents Die on July 4th: Just a Coincidence?” tweeted Bush along with a link to a story which explained how, “Three Founding Father Presidents—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe—died on July 4.”
(Excerpt) Read more at infowars.com ...
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-jefferson-and-john-adams-die
JULY 04
1826
On this day in 1826, former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who were once fellow Patriots and then adversaries, die on the same day within five hours of each other.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were the last surviving members of the original American revolutionaries who had stood up to the British empire and forged a new political system in the former colonies. However, while they both believed in democracy and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their opinions on how to achieve these ideals diverged over time.
Adams preceded Jefferson as president (1797-1800); it was during this time that their ideas about policy-making became as distinct as their personalities. The irascible and hot-tempered Adams was a firm believer in a strong centralized government, while the erudite and gentile Jefferson believed federal government should take a more hands-off approach and defer to individual states’ rights. As Adams’ vice president, Jefferson was so horrified by what he considered to be Adams’ abuse of the presidency–particularly his passage of the restrictive Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798–that he abandoned Adams and Washington for his estate at Monticello. There, he plotted how to bring his Republican faction back into power in the presidential election of 1800. After an exceptionally bitter campaign, in which both parties engaged in slanderous attacks on each other in print, Jefferson emerged victorious. It appeared the former friends would be eternal enemies.
After serving two presidential terms (1801-1809), Jefferson and Adams each expressed to third parties their respect the other and their desire to renew their friendship. Adams was the first to break the silence; he sent Jefferson a letter dated January 1, 1812, in which he wished Jefferson many happy new years to come. Jefferson responded with a note in which he fondly recalled when they were fellow laborers in the same cause. The former revolutionaries went on to resume their friendship over 14 years of correspondence during their golden years.
On July 4, 1826, at the age of 90, Adams lay on his deathbed while the country celebrated Independence Day. His last words were “Thomas Jefferson still survives”.
He was mistaken: Jefferson had died five hours earlier at Monticello at the age of 82.
It comes up every 4th of July. Not unusual. Don’t make more of it than it is.
A disgraced family.
Most likely, he was just repeating the title of the linked article so his followers could make comments on the article. Its a twitter thing.
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“Please Clap”
That has to be the most pathetic moment in American political history.
I thought Twitter was going to remove remarks that don’t pass their reviews. Now we know the truth about Twitter.
And of course, July 4, 1826 was the 50th birthday of our nation. Jefferson and Adams went from being close friends, to bitter political enemies, and back to close long-distance friends towards the end of their lives. When I told my students the story, they were impressed—coincidence or the hand of God?
I doubt it. Next year's Democrat Convention will have speaking roles for Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clinton I'd wager.
“so now there’s a problem with making a statement of fact...?”
Yes, because it isn’t just a mere statement of fact. We’re not that gullible or stupid to believe that is all it is.
Explain why such a fact is necessary to be brought up by this pinhead today.
Why couldn’t what was once a presidential hopeful to make such an isolated statement instead of one of happiness that this is the nation’s independence day??
“Someone who sees a “threat” in stating that is as looney as members of the left wing.”
So, instead of a message supporting the country on her independence day, he instead writes one of death to presidents??
You’re the looney, and so is he.
I don't think he meant anything by it.
“A truth that’s told with bad intent,
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
WilLiam Blake
Three Presidents Die on July 4th: Just a Coincidence?
July 4, 2019 by NCC Staff
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/three-presidents-die-on-july-4th-just-a-coincidence
It is a fact of American history that three of the five Founding Father Presidents died on the Independence Day anniversary. But was it just a coincidence?
It is a fact of American history that three Founding Father Presidents—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe—died on July 4, the Independence Day anniversary. But was it just a coincidence?
On July 4, 1831, James Monroe, the fifth President, died at the age of 73 at his son-in-law’s home in New York City. Monroe had been ill for some time and newspapers had reported on Monroe’s illness before his passing.
Local and national newspapers were also quick to report after Monroe’s death that they thought his July 4 passing was a “remarkable” coincidence, at the least, since Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had both also died on July 4, 1826 – the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The oddness of the events wasn’t lost on the New York Evening Post in 1831, when the newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton called it a “coincidence that has no parallel”: “Three of the four presidents who have left the scene of their usefulness and glory expired on the anniversary of the national birthday, a day which of all others, had it been permitted them to choose [they] would probably had selected for the termination of their careers,” the Post reported on July 5, 1831.
The New York Commercial Advertiser wrote on July 5, 1831: “It would be difficult to find a parallel in history, three of them have been called away in a good all age, on the same proud anniversary.”
And then the Boston Traveler wondered about the coincidence on July 8. “Again our national anniversary has been marked by one of those events, which it may be scarcely permitted to ascribe the chance.”
Then the Frederick, Maryland Town Herald marked Monroe’s passing on July 9, 1831 by also noting the “presidential coincidence”: “This have three of our revolutionary presidents departed this life on the anniversary of our independence; presenting the most remarkable tissue of coincidences that have marked the history of nations,” the newspaper said.
The death of these three presidents on the same day of the year was a long shot. There is an interesting blog post at the Boston University’s History Society that excerpts Margaret P. Battin’s research on the coincidental deaths of Adams and Jefferson.
“Given the insufficient historical evidence available, we can’t know the truth about why Adams and Jefferson died on the same day,” Battin said. (She didn’t include Monroe in her study.) Battin evaluated the circumstances under six different criteria, ranging from mere coincidence and divine intervention, to the men’s willingness or desire to die on the anniversary day.
“We can reflect on whether it would make a difference to us if one or another of these explanations turned out to be true,” she concluded. “After all, the six possibilities these explanations raise are central to the very questions about death and dying that are so controversial today.”
But back in 1826, Daniel Webster’s eulogy for Adams and Jefferson spoke to a point that many people believed: that something other than coincidence was involved.
“The concurrence of their death on the anniversary of Independence has naturally awakened stronger emotions,” Webster said. “It cannot but seem striking and extraordinary, that these two should live to see the fiftieth year from the date of that act, that they should complete that year, and that then, on the day which had fast linked forever their own fame with their country’s glory, the heavens should open to receive them both at once.”
“As their lives themselves were the gifts of Providence, who is not willing to recognize in their happy termination, as well as in their long continuance, proofs that our country and its benefactors are objects of His care?”
Clueless.
Leave that for the looney left.
He’s probably been playing with voodoo dolls. We know what he was implying/thinking. In his dreams!!! And what’s in it for him?
“Clueless.”
I know you are, and we’re here to help you get over your gullibility.
From a real cur, to any leftist on the edge of insanity.
Pray for Trump.
Pray for the USSS.
Pray hard.
especially the bushies....arrogant pricks
So...you don’t think he meant anything by it...
I guess this means you have spoken with him? Jeb! humiliated himself...beginning with his “tip-toe” dance and ending with literally nothing after spending $100M.
And now, searching desperately for another 15 minutes of coverage.
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