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To: Idabilly

I side with Jefferson.


2 posted on 03/10/2010 6:37:27 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (We bury Democrats face down so that when they scratch, they get closer to home.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I wish Coolidge was a choice.


27 posted on 03/10/2010 9:08:41 PM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
"I side with Jefferson."

Ditto!

130 posted on 03/11/2010 10:23:10 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Not me. Jefferson was the first of the big spenders, submitting a public works project that Congress rejected, which would have made FDR blush. He ran from the British while Hamilton and Washington and Monroe were fighting; he did correctly authorize the first foreign (not counting Canada) use of force by the U.S. military, without a declaration of war. He blundered into the fantastic purchase of Louisiana, which at the time was extra-constitutional---and I'm glad he did.

Lincoln had faults, but his vision of the declaration was every bit as perfect as Jefferson's and his actions no more, or less, defensible.

155 posted on 03/11/2010 6:51:21 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
I side with Jefferson.

Me, too.

387 posted on 03/15/2010 5:30:04 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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