Posted on 11/19/2010 1:12:45 PM PST by Pyro7480
On Thursday's Parker-Spitzer, CNN's Kathleen Parker bizarrely and inaccurately claimed that Alexander Hamilton came to the United States illegally and drafted the Constitution: "Let's remember...a lot of Americans did come through the back door such as Alexander Hamilton. He got off the boat from the West Indies, and all he did was write the Constitution and become the first Secretary of the Treasury."
Parker raised this false history during a discussion of Pedro Ramirez, Fresno State University's student body president, who was outed as an illegal immigrant by a student newspaper. After playing clips from Ramirez and his opponent during the student election, who is also the president of the Fresno State College Republicans, the CNN host displayed sympathy for the college student: "This is kind of a classic though, isn't it, really? I mean, you've the college Republican versus the illegal immigrant, and it's kind of a classic clash, you know, that corresponds to this immigration debate we're having in this country. And clearly, when you put a human face on the illegal immigrant, it's a different story. I mean, nobody wants to punish this young 22-year-old."
...Actually, Hamilton came to New York City from the British West Indies in 1774 to study at King College, which was renamed Columbia University after the American War for Independence. Of course, New York was still a British colony at this point, so the young Hamilton didn't "come through the back door."
More importantly, Hamilton didn't write the Constitution- that credit generally goes to James Madison....
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That’s what I get for following in the long FR tradition of responding to a post before reading all of them.
Let me make up something ~ Kathleen Parker regularly does an “old fashioned” just for Elliot Spitzer. Keeps him calm on a day to day basis.
Thug politics go back thousands of years, but the organizational skills Burr brought to Tammany Hall let the Hall pretty much run NYC politics for close to 100 years.
On the other hand, Burr set a lot of the Senatorial protocol that continues to this day. When Burr stepped down at the end of his term and gave his farewell speech to the Senate many members were in tears.
Hamilton was practically begging Burr to kill him and Burr obliged.
Just for the sake of personal honor he'd probably shot all of them if he could have gotten away with it.
If there are corrections, note them somewhere.
They claim Adams defended a British soldier who killed Americans at the Boston Massacre. One problem, the Boston Massacre took place in 1770 and the trial was in the King's Court, with Adams an attorney admitted to the King's bar - 6 years before the Declaration of Independence. So at the time Adams was representing a fellow countryman who himself was serving their common country.
Exactly the type of ignorance and lies I would expect from an ObamaCon who whored herself (politically, of course) to Spitzer and CNN.
Hamilton wanted a strong executive. He was not a Royalist. He was expelled from Kings College for anti-royalist activities. He fought and bled for this country in the American revolution. He is the reason we had a strong currency for 200 years. And he died to protect this country from ambitious traitors like Burr.
Jefferson was the original salon liberal. A slave-holding Jacobin. Hamilton distrusted mobs. So did Washington.
It’s not like he spent 8 years fighting for this country after being expelled from college for anti-British activities or anything. It’s not like Hamilton was willing to become a pariah in supporting Aristocratic prinicples to ensure taht both Aristocratic and Democratic principles existed in our Constitution, thus preventing us from becoming the type of Jacobin state taht the Slavocrat Jefferson supported. And its not like Hamilton was killed by Aaron Burr because he prevented the ambitious future traitor from becoming President and Governor of NY.
Hamilton was turned down for admission to the College of New Jersey because he did not know classical Greek. He got his revenge at the Battle of Princeton.
With or without the Revolution America was going to far outdo the old homeland ~ if it hadn't have happened we'd probably have reverted the UK back to sheep farms and oak lots for the pigs ~ like it oughta' be.
As long as she doesn’t say that sitting next to Barney Frank.......
I was talking about turning it all into a park and simply shipping everybody into the Brit dominion in North America.
There were, of course, elements in the industrial revolution that were peculiar to UK, but it began in Belgium more than a century earlier.
Worse than that:
“Parker grew up in Winter Haven, Florida, graduated from Winter Haven High School in 1969, and attended Converse College before transferring to Florida State University where she majored in Spanish Literature. She also holds a Master’s degree in the subject from Florida State.”
I guess Spanish majors don’t have to study American History down south.
Isn’t Winter Haven where the circus hangs out? ;)
The Burr-Hamilton controversy was about NYC and votes their service with Washington is enshrined but the 80% who fought in the Milita with Sullivan is ignored.
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