Posted on 04/15/2016 4:31:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Nothing against you. Was a great read. Just questioning the title, the peridical and their agenda.
Thank you for posting an interesting article about an important president. John Quincy Adams is my line (though I am not sure by blood, as there is an adoption somewhere along the way), but he is not a favorite of mine.
Excellent article. Read every word.
That said, Go Trump!
Even in his dying years Jackson was convinced that the British were plotting to get a foothold in the free state of Texas and wrote of the need to “take and lock the door against all danger of foreign influence.”
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Here is the point: The British have finally gotten one of their own as a Senator from Texas, now running for President. ;-)
David Crockett hated Jackson for his treatment of the Indians.
All analogies/parallels are flawed, just like apples at a farmer's market. I picked the one with the fewest and smallest blemishes, so don't blame me if it's a bit tart.
True enough. That analogy was the low hanging fruit.
A little larger please. Having trouble seeing this morning. Thanks.
Interesting, and while Trump may be an egomaniac and a boor, he is no Jackson.
Strikes me that there is a much better argument to remove Jackson from our currency than there is for doing in Hamilton. If the Washington Redskins name is offensive, then what can one say about the Trail of Tears $20?
I agree
excellent point
Interesting piece, thanks
In front of the Maryland State Capitol stands a statue of Roger Taney the first catholic Supreme Court justice, appointed by andrew Jackson to replace John Marshall. Taney was later the author of the Dred Scott decision ... An act that helped propel an obscure state senator named Abraham Lincoln into the presidency. Chief Justice Taney administered the oath of office to Lincoln, who had no respect for him .. Taney lost his personal fortune in the civil war and died in poverty on the day slavery was outlawed in Maryland. His slaves were freed and given pensions in the terms of his will... A bit of rambling here but always an interesting period in us history and the interrelationships of the individuals who made it
His wife conveniently, for him, died of a heart attack in the same way Breitbart and Scalia conveniently died of heart attacks, too.
Huh?
You’re welcome
“take and lock the door against all danger of foreign influence.”
Yes, I believe this is a great idea. Now, remind me again, is a Canadian a foreign influence?
A good read, but:
” . . .the Battle of Waxhaws. The May 1780 battle became, in legend, a massacre of defenseless colonials by British redcoats under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton.”
If the author is implying that it was not, in reality, a massacre (of the American soldiers who had been wounded or surrendered), he is at variance with every historian I have ever read on the subject.
“His inaugural address was almost cryptic. He promised to ‘keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.’
If the author is saying that the sentence he is quoting is cryptic, I disagree.
I thought of Jeb bush as the scion of aristocracy raised to assume the presidency
Trumps “ frontier” is the economy and he is eager to try to expand and tame it ... His wife is also subject to attacks that wound him deeply ... He is a rough and plain spoken man like Jackson but that is being held against him as “ vulgar” ... People prefer the Henry Clay’s ( Cruz) who give fine speeches and know how to use “ the rules”
I don’t need no backhanded compliments and like I said I won’t let anyone tell me what articles I can post and from which site. I am tired of this BS.
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