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2017-03-15 Home Front: Culture Wars
Report: Donald Trump to Lay Wreath at Andrew Jackson's Tomb Before Rallying Supporters in Tennessee
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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2017-03-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ]  Top

#1 Trump hung a portrait of the seventh president in the Oval Office five days into his presidency.

Out with MLK, in with AJ. I like it.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-15 00:36||   2017-03-15 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 MLK wasn't removed, that was fake news.
Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-03-15 01:24||   2017-03-15 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 The Obama administration had wanted to remove Jackson from the $20 bill.


From Wikipedia - "was the founder of the Democratic Party"
Posted by Thrinese Peacock4930 2017-03-15 04:57||   2017-03-15 04:57|| Front Page Top

#4 The Don is like Andrew Jackson - except he fights duels on twitter.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-15 05:26||   2017-03-15 05:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Obama wanted to remove A.J.'s picture from the $20 bill. How times have changed.
Posted by JohnQC 2017-03-15 08:17||   2017-03-15 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 g(r)om, another difference is that Trump doesn't own slaves like Jackson did.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2017-03-15 08:23||   2017-03-15 08:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Given the difference in their environments, I don't consider it a definitive distinction.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-15 08:44||   2017-03-15 08:44|| Front Page Top

#8 The Obama administration had wanted to remove Jackson from the $20 bill.

It cheaply (political cost) gives a thrill to the Reparation Justice crowd of the Progressives. The Native American Tribes have an understandably visceral hatred of Jackson because of the Trail of Tears. Put a LibProg icon on the 20-bill and strike an Old White Guy equals a Win-Win.
Posted by magpie 2017-03-15 10:21||   2017-03-15 10:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Jackson is d responsible for horrors against the Native Americans and war with Mexico. But he is also the Father of the Democrat party.

Sounds like he's baiting a trap to me.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-03-15 10:45||   2017-03-15 10:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Jackson is responsible for horrors against the Native Americans and war with Mexico.

Wonder where the author's living.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-15 11:39||   2017-03-15 11:39|| Front Page Top

#11 The Cherokee cast their lot with the British and lost...who knows what would've happened had they sided with the Patriots. It aint all one sided here in Tennessee...the Cherokee were rezponsie for their share of war crimes.
Posted by Tennessee 2017-03-15 11:54||   2017-03-15 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 and they (allegedly) gave us Senator Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren. For that they should've paid, and paid dearly
Posted by Frank G 2017-03-15 11:58||   2017-03-15 11:58|| Front Page Top

#13 g(r)omgoru, if by the author you mean me, that answer would be San Diego California.

Rest assured our universities have been teaching of the horrors against the Native Americans (even when they had to invent a few horrors such as small pox blankets).

It'd be nice if Trump can stick a face to those horrors. A face that also happens to be the Founder of the Democrat party.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-03-15 14:08||   2017-03-15 14:08|| Front Page Top

#14 My point, rj, was - if your ancestors didn't dispossessed the Indians, where would you live?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-15 14:20||   2017-03-15 14:20|| Front Page Top

#15 Getting more of a Teddy Roosevelt vibe from Trump, but a little Andrew Jackson thrown into the mix can't hurt.
Posted by Iblis 2017-03-15 15:15||   2017-03-15 15:15|| Front Page Top

#16 War with Mexico was going to happen regardless due to the Bear Flag Revolt. The Battle of Olampali is unique in that it was the only battle of the Bear Flag Revolt that resulted in casualties - and simultaneously can also claim to be the 1st battle of the War with Mexico. The incidents leading up to the battle at Olompali would have continued in scope and desperation - it was just a matter of time. Following the battle, Ford's men then commandeered a boat - made way to the Spanish fort at San Francisco, disabled the cannon there and then returned to Sonoma.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-03-15 15:17||   2017-03-15 15:17|| Front Page Top

#17 g(r)omgoru, I'm not a liberal anguishing over the ills. If the native Americans were not dispossessed by Anglos (and a lot of Scots and Germans) they would have been dispossessed by other Europeans, many of whom were a lot nastier.

So in other words the trail of tears doesn't bother me so much, but it does bother liberals and knowing it was one of the Democrat leaders is bound to cause some hair pulling and tears.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-03-15 16:30||   2017-03-15 16:30|| Front Page Top

#18 #15, right on. These are exciting times. Trump far outclasses these phonies. Far more intelligent than they realize. Watch him play these phonies and enjoy. This is history as dramatic as sending man to the moon. The future is now.
Posted by Dale 2017-03-15 16:34||   2017-03-15 16:34|| Front Page Top

#19 RJ, consistency is not a hobgoblin of the liberal mind (apologies to Joel Rosenberg). They'll integrate the fact that Andrew Jackson founded the democratic party in their worldview the same way they've integrated the fact that Abraham Lincoln, a republican, freed the slaves.
You want to hurt a liberal - use a stick.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-15 17:41||   2017-03-15 17:41|| Front Page Top

#20 Native American males were a warrior people. They called them savages for good reason. Read what they did to captives and carcasus during the French and Indian war.

The Cherokee were more civilized, but their women married whites at the drop of a hat because they were still more civilized.

I met several Cherokee during my lifetime and unfortunately their culture still contains considerable strife amongst their own circles.
Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-03-15 19:02||   2017-03-15 19:02|| Front Page Top

#21 Heard the day after Trump's election: They took Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill and put him in the White House.
Posted by The peanut gallery 2017-03-15 19:04||   2017-03-15 19:04|| Front Page Top

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