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To: Jim Robinson
History question

Would Alexander Hamilton have called Thomas Jefferson a "dumbass" if the internet had been around back then?
1,314 posted on 10/20/2003 12:51:33 PM PDT by woofie (I want to die peacefully in my sleep like Grandpa ...not screaming, like the passengers in his car)
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To: woofie
Yes, but on the bright side, Aaron Burr would only have flamed him.
1,317 posted on 10/20/2003 12:52:39 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: woofie
Would Alexander Hamilton have called Thomas Jefferson a "dumbass" if the internet had been around back then?

I think he'd probably call TJ a "marxist".

1,333 posted on 10/20/2003 1:11:18 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: woofie
Hamilton was killed in duel. The duel was over a political fight. You might also read up on the Philadelphia Aurora. Even the worst of FR arguments are polite, and well-mannered in comparison to real political fights, or the verbal battles fought by pamphlet, letter and paper in the early days of the republic.
1,336 posted on 10/20/2003 1:25:35 PM PDT by bvw
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