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Posted on 01/12/2016 3:58:36 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
I knew an Old Timey, Clawhammer banjo player who was from so far south in New Jersey that culturally his home was south of the Mason Dixon line. He was in the Navy, at Norfolk, some Limey sailors came into a bar, Jersey-Dixie immediately commenced with The Battle of New Orleans, as you can hear here in Old Timey Clawhammer style, it may have originated in that milieu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeQMYrSUwlg Unfortunately, a banjar makes an excellent club for a barroom brawl.
Old Andy Jackson brazenly stood up to the British, but his real forte was standing up to the banks; the Creature from Jeckyll Island was thus beaten back for generations. (Old Honest Abe may have been done in by its European relatives.)
It was complained about that some of Andy's guests at his Inauguration actually urinated in the White House, perhaps not the worst thing that's been done there with that human member.
Andy Jackson is supposed to have shut down the Supreme Court after Worcester v. Georgia (1832) with the remark "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!" (Nixon could have done as much with Roe v. Wade 1973, but he partially supported it, so much for "Conservatism".)
The Donald ain't no Andy Jackson. What he will actually do with his possible or likely Presidency is a complete black box. The grandstanding may conceal nefarious doings below the bleachers. Hold onto your wallet.
I know Dan Quayle is actually a very smart guy who could have rejoindered to Lloyd Bentsen's "Senator Quayle, You're No Jack Kennedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-7gpgXNWYI " with a snappy, "Senator Bentsen, if John Kennedy were to rise from the grave, he would have thought the Democrat Party had finally accepted Uncle Joe's invitation to Adlai Stevenson to sign on with the Comintern."
Nice snappy phrases but what is your point?
Duh, Trump’s no conservative?
I’m a Cruz guy. Having said that, at least the Donald is no McCain or Romney or Dole and he can’t be worse than Hillary.
My great-great-grandfather participated in the Battle of New Orleans.
For the British. Colin John Grant was a member of the Scots Highlanders Regiment, and had served from about the age of fourteen, first in India, then in several posts in other parts of the British Empire, and lastly in New Orleans. Upon return to England, he emigrated to the US and settled originally in southern Indiana, marrying a widow there who was to become my great-great-grandmother.
Faded Glory.
A thought experiment. Imagine Trump’s RNC keynote, or his first SOU address.
Would it be a speech, or stream of consciousness ADHD ramblings?
Would it inspire like Reagan or Churchill did, or just get a bunch of people slobbering with excitement (not knowing quite why, but the fact that everyone else is salivating, he must have said a real zinger against someone we all are supposed to despise).
Talk is cheap. In that category, Trump is quite poor - he can say anything, but so far has done nothing he has said that he will do. The question is, can you trust a loudmouth New York bragger to do anything he says, when he says opposite things from day to day?
>>Duh, Trump’s no conservative
Not a perfect conservative, but somewhat conservative. But his appeal is that he is the voice of the voiceless majority and a nationalist in a time of Transnational Progressives at the top of both parties. He is also the only Republican who can out-Alinsky the Prog media.
>>In that category, Trump is quite poor - he can say anything, but so far has done nothing he has said that he will do.
So, are you saying that we should only choose seasoned politicians with a track record of politics?
Trump does something that politicians cannot understand: he risks his own capital to build things that he intends to profit from. A politician uses other people’s money to accomplish very little except to require more infusions of other people’s money every year from now until the end of time.
I read this 4 times, and I still have no idea what this is supposed to be about either.
Trump risks other people’s money. His list of failures is long and hard for everyone but him.
>>Trump risks other people’s money. His list of failures is long and hard for everyone but him.
How does he get their money? Does he take it at gunpoint or call it their civic duty? No. He produces results that investors like and they believe that their money will produce wealth. If his track record did not produce more successes than failures, then he would not have other people’s money to risk.
A politician can alway belly up to the public trough for more confiscated wealth regardless of his record of success or failure. It’s what they. It’s ALL that they do!
Of course not. The Donald can get his own screen name, say, how about, perhaps he could try, oh, "the Donald," just to be his own man for a change and not pretend to be something he is not pretending to be.
You see, there are at least two false premises in your headline, 1.) that Trump has portrayed himself somehow as Andrew Jackson - which is utter defamation on your part - since he has done no such thing, or 2.) that Trump should be Andrew Jackson, but falls short.
Well men are a product of their genes and their upbringing, but they are also a product of their time, place and other circumstance. Andrew Jackson was a good man for the problems facing the US in the early 19th century. But we need someone who is president to solve the ills of the early 21st century. Whoever that is it isn't Andrew Jackson.
What he will actually do with his possible or likely Presidency is a complete black box. The grandstanding may conceal nefarious doings below the bleachers
Do you think Obama was not a complete blackbox whose grandstanding conceals nefarious dealings below. How about McConnel, Boehner, Ryan on "our" side of the table. Do you think Jebbie is not a complete blackbox or any of the other RINOs. They don't even know what nefarious doings will be going on below until the democrats tell them who they are to betray next for their pieces of silver.
Moreover, Trumps speeches are filled with things he says he is going to do. And one thing that we do know about Donald is that the evidence is that when he sets out to do something, he gets it done and he has a string of buildings in his wake to prove that.
This is a long-winded way of saying what major-Pelham said so succinctly, "you have no point." My point is not only to prove him right, but to prove that from what you say and what you think and what you believe you cannot get to a point, not one that logically flows from the facts.
Maybe you should ask some of his investors in his failed schemes?
Trump Shuttle? Ran it into the dirt in less than 3 years (after bragging that it would be the greatest airline ever).
Trump Casino in Atlantic City (along with his male strip club)? He left everyone holding the bag.
Got more, want to keep playing?
So why do people invest in his projects?
Yes, the man's a billionaire and cannot bother to buy himself a teleprompter and a speech writer, and handlers to make sure he has down all the RINO talking points, which they have to get from Obama after they get their payoff.
My god, and this man wants to be President.
$20 is small potatoes. Trump is going for the $10,000!
Nice summation of Trump in today’s political climate.
Why do people buy cars from sleazy car salesmen?
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