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2015-05-13 -Land of the Free

Group pushing to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 selects Harriet Tubman as their candidate

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Posted by Fred 2015-05-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Maybe liberals would feel better if they had to wear hair shirts.

Posted by gorb 2015-05-13 01:03|| 2015-05-13 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Any chance we can get a peek at the new flag ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-13 01:44|| 2015-05-13 01:44|| Front Page Top

#3 I nominate Barak Obama for the $3 bill!

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-13 01:52|| 2015-05-13 01:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Howzabout Alfred E. Newman instead?

Posted by SteveS 2015-05-13 01:59|| 2015-05-13 01:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Will it have the Spanish version on the back?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-05-13 05:33|| 2015-05-13 05:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Quite the list they had their to choose from. Did Janet Reno get any votes?

Posted by Airandee 2015-05-13 06:58|| 2015-05-13 06:58|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ from Donna Shalala

Posted by Frank G 2015-05-13 07:33|| 2015-05-13 07:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Surprised Wilma Mankiller didn't get it.

Posted by Grunter 2015-05-13 07:47|| 2015-05-13 07:47|| Front Page Top

#9 I feel a microaggression against Old White Men. I'm going to sue

Posted by Frank G 2015-05-13 08:52|| 2015-05-13 08:52|| Front Page Top

#10 I suggest that Democratic senator who was a KKK Great Dragon and shared bench with Obama.

Posted by JFM 2015-05-13 09:42|| 2015-05-13 09:42|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess piecing together a French/Spanish/American/Indian/Free Black army and then leading them to victory over crack British forces and saving the City of New Orleans doesn't get much respect these days. IIRC, Jackson's army was responsible for the most lop-sided American victory on U.S. Soil.

Posted by ConstantCough 2015-05-13 10:24|| 2015-05-13 10:24|| Front Page Top

#12 That deserves this ConstantCough:

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-13 10:33|| 2015-05-13 10:33|| Front Page Top

#13 IIRC it could have been close, but a detachment of British crossed the river and were put so far off target it effectively took them out of the fight. It was then a British push towards the center where many veterans of the war vs. Napoleon met their fate.

These were crack troops who didn't run, but were used to European battlefields and were already exhausted by marching through swampy land and various sleep deprivation harassments.

A goodly portion of the American forces were volunteers and irregulars. Legit win.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-05-13 11:02|| 2015-05-13 11:02|| Front Page Top

#14 I nominate Jesse Jackson.

At least they won't have to change the script, Just the portrait.

Now I dare you not to laugh

Posted by Harry Jailet3538 2015-05-13 11:18|| 2015-05-13 11:18|| Front Page Top

#15

All very tiring and divisive. We don't have a 'Big Five' per se, but we could easily switch to political party and animal themes. How about it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-13 14:06|| 2015-05-13 14:06|| Front Page Top

#16 I wasn't aware that there was anything wrong with the 20 dollar bill but, since there apparently is, put Palin on it...and watch the heads explode!

Posted by tu3031 2015-05-13 14:13|| 2015-05-13 14:13|| Front Page Top

#17 Put her on a stamp.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-13 15:12|| 2015-05-13 15:12|| Front Page Top

#18 Lizzie Borden.

What?

Posted by Pappy 2015-05-13 15:43|| 2015-05-13 15:43|| Front Page Top

#19 Finally someone wants a gun-toting Republican on the twenty.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-05-13 16:33|| 2015-05-13 16:33|| Front Page Top

#20 She did help John Brown, though.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2015-05-13 16:36|| 2015-05-13 16:36|| Front Page Top

#21 Rantburg University trivia question: Who was the officer in charge of the 'take down' of abolitionist John Brown at the Harper's Ferry Arsenal?

CLUE: This U.S. Army Major later became the president of Washington & Lee University and is buried in the campus chapel there today.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-13 16:39|| 2015-05-13 16:39|| Front Page Top

#22 So they decide to put out a 'Tubman' note, but there's too many Jacksons in circulation worldwide. So they decide to make up a new denomination, say the $15 dollar bill. As a further stroke of genius, they want to make it half size to cut down on production costs. That also means no change machine in the world will take it.
So when you go down to the post office to get a $35 dollar postage stamp, you'll get a 'Tubman' in change from your fifty.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-05-13 17:11|| 2015-05-13 17:11|| Front Page Top

#23 Know without looking but unfair advantage Kansas history. I'll hold.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-05-13 17:13|| 2015-05-13 17:13|| Front Page Top

#24 "How dare you monetize a African American!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-05-13 17:14|| 2015-05-13 17:14|| Front Page Top

#25 You don't want to use Rst. Jesse Jackson - people will tend to use it as buttwipe!

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-13 17:20|| 2015-05-13 17:20|| Front Page Top

#26 A lot of Native Americans have an understandable if misguided issue with Andrew Jackson. I say put Ronald Reagan on the Twenty he earned it by winning the Cold War.

Posted by Chusose Stalin4825 2015-05-13 17:42|| 2015-05-13 17:42|| Front Page Top

#27 "I don't understand. These new $20s with Rev. Jackson's picture keep curling up into straws."

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-05-13 17:49|| 2015-05-13 17:49|| Front Page Top

#28 Lets have the Profit Mohammad on the $20.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-13 18:31|| 2015-05-13 18:31|| Front Page Top

#29 @swksvolFF #27 Hahahaha

Posted by Classer 2015-05-13 19:34|| 2015-05-13 19:34|| Front Page Top

#30 How about putting Thatcher on the $20 then?:p I could stomach that one:p

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-05-13 19:58|| 2015-05-13 19:58|| Front Page Top

#31 @#21 I just visited Harpers Ferry a few weeks ago for the first time. The answer is Robert E Lee.

Posted by Airandee 2015-05-13 20:28|| 2015-05-13 20:28|| Front Page Top

#32 Before long it won't be worth a dime anyway.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-05-13 20:30|| 2015-05-13 20:30|| Front Page Top

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