Whatever else he did deserves forgiveness. He closed the 2nd Bank of the US and put Nicholas Biddle out of business. That is enough to make him a great president.
I SO want to see a pubbie just get up and slug a dem on CSPAN ... just once.
M*****F*** you, my esteemed colleague on the right .. you traitorous bastard !
He was also the victorious general at the Battle of New Orleans, one of the very few American victories over Britain during that war and key to holding the entire Mississippi valley without dispute (OK, it happened several weeks after a peace treaty had been signed ... details, details). As an icon of the Democratic Party, and being of Cherokee ancestry myself, I have no great love or admiration for Jackson. In many ways he was a genuine bas***d and tyrant. But the fact is he was an important and pivotal figure in our history, the first common-man to ever gain the presidency.