I like Benjamin Franklin much more..
20s are ok but I prefer Grants or Franklins.
Is English your native language?
I’ve got mixed feelings on him. He did good things but he wasn’t much for letting the constitution get in his way.
I like Benjamin Franklin much more..
Hill-billies in the White House.
I find it ironic that the Democrats honor this slave owner with their annual fundraiser, The Jefferson (another slave owner)-Jackson dinner.
My problem with Jackson is what he did to the Cherokee Indians. They owned farm land and he simply took it away from them and forced marched them Oklahoma, many died along the way.
BTW, who cares what Beck thinks? He likes Ron Paul for crying out loud.
Democrats didn’t become the party of taxes, entitlement, and special interest groups until long after Andrew Jackson was dead.
Lincoln destroyed the United States of America and recreated it as something that should be called the Federal Republic of America. Hint: the words “United” and “States” meant something before Lincoln. Today, they are just an empty name that has no significance other than a name like France or Spain.
Andrew Johnson was an Andrew Jackson hero-worshipper. I read an account written by an unidentified Englishman in the US shortly after Lincoln's death, which emphasized the similarities between Jackson and Johnson's policies--of course there wasn't much to go on as to Johnson's policies as President by then, but the author referred to Johnson as a "Red" and found his extreme belief in the people problematic. That came from Jackson.
I don't know if Jackson should have his likeness on the $20 bill, but I have no objection to spending twenties.
He got rid of the central bank and paid off the national debt. He was a great President.
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One thing I know for absolute certainty: Andrew Jackson would NEVER EVER have bailed out the big banks. Not in a MILLION years.
There was a little too much of the cult of personality among his supporters for my taste.
The liberals claim he was a racist against the Indians, but he even adopted an Indian child.
What the liberals mistake for racism was Andrew Jackson’s firm intention that if you attacked the United States or killed Americans, like the Creeks or the Seminoles did, you would be damn sorry until the day Andrew Jackson stood over your stupid ass while your all of your blood was running out into the ground.
The one good thing he did was doing away with the Second Bank of the U.S. His unconstitutional ethnic cleansing of the East Coast and the death march he sent the Cherokees on were low points in the nation’s history.
I think Jackson was a great man but like most he had flaws. He may have been the bravest man ever to be President. He also may have been the toughest. His men did not call him “Old Hickory” because he was a wimp.
I agree that he never let the Constitution get in his way. Now that I think about it, he probably never let anything get in his way.
Although he forced the Indians into Oklahoma, (btw, Eastern Oklahoma is a beautiful land), he adopted an Indian baby and raised him as his own.
A really forceful personality who was basically good but also started the slide which ended in an all powerful Federal Government. Even so if it had not been for Lincoln, it probably would never have gotten to the current state.
When he was but a lad, he was a brave runner bringing messages across enemy lines during the Revolution; he also did good during the War of 1812. After that, it was downhill.
Even taking him as a product of his own time, he had an excessive hatred of Indians. The falling out between him and Crockett was apparently more about his mistreatment of Indians (now Native Americans) than anything else. The exact truth of that is obscured by time, but Crockett gives a clear enough picture to know that Jackson was at best an extremely flawed human being.
Not as bad as the racist DemocRat, Woodrow Wilson. Few are. But bad nonetheless.
I suggest you read Robert W. Merry’s book, A Country Of Vast Designs.
It is ostensibly about James K. Polk (President, 1485), but he was a ‘political creature’, a protege, of President Jackson. Merry does a good job of describing the men and how politics worked before the Civil War.
Andrew Jackson wasn’t liked by the surviving founders of the U.S.A. The book is an excellent read and describes the Mexican War, I believe, accurately.
Back then the electorate could handle tough guys, tough issues, and tough decisions. Jackson was a very mixed bag, you don’t have to be defensive about coming down for him, or agin him.
Even taking him as a product of his own time, he had an excessive hatred of Indians. The falling out between him and Crockett was apparently more about his mistreatment of Indians (now Native Americans) than anything else. The exact truth of that is obscured by time, but Crockett gives a clear enough picture to know that Jackson was at best an extremely flawed human being.
Not as bad as the racist DemocRat, Woodrow Wilson. Few are. But bad nonetheless.
