Posted on 02/26/2015 11:13:23 AM PST by C19fan
So we’re in late February, which means it’s the season for local Jefferson-Jackson Days, when local Democratic Parties hold potlucks to raise money and get people pumped for Get Out the Vote drives. It’s also shortly after President’s Day, which is, for me, always a day spent reminiscing about random presidential trivia and tweeting unpopular opinions.
And for once one of those unpopular opinions caught the attention of an editor and now I’m writing about how the “Jackson” in Jefferson-Jackson Day is an abomination. Indeed, I want to grab my fellow Democrats who say stupid, historically ignorant things about how George W. Bush was “the worst President ever” by the lapels and shove them at Andrew Jackson’s Wikipedia entry, rubbing their nose in it until they understand what they did.
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Those deaths are on the hands of Jefferson Davis. He was the one that opened fire first.
What a joke. How many people died at Fort Sumter?
I seem to forget that General Beauregard on orders from Jeff Davis launched an attack on Washington DC. Oh, that didn’t happen.
Instead, Abe Lincoln launched an attack aimed at capturing Richmond. He was stopped of course but even after his victory, Davis literally forbade and invasion of the North.
Oh yeah, the South really attacked the North first. That is simply a lie.
The only lies that are being spread are by you Democrats denying culpability for starting a Civil War. Same today as it was in 1965.
And I'm sure they're sick of Southern revisionists.
Actually around twice as many Yankees paid the bill.
It is the Yankees who should have been ticked off at Lincoln.
Of course he was clever enough to make it about slavery even tho he had made it clear before the war that it wasn’t.
Yes it is.
That is not in the North.
No it is not. And your point is?
No country would allow another to occupy it’s main harbor.
Charleston was hardly the main harbor. It wasn't even the second busiest.
Your list doesn’t include the worst: Mao Zedong.
TRUE!!!
yesterday I paid someone with some $20s and joked that if it were today Andrew Jackson would not be put on the $20 bill due to him leading wars against the American Indians. He was known as the Indian Killer
internet:
“Andrew Jackson: A man nicknamed “Indian killer” and “Sharp Knife” surely deserves the top spot on a list of worst U.S. Presidents.”
You would probably have been a Republican in the 1860s but then the parties have no resemblance now to what they were then.
I am thinking about leaving the Republican Party tho because they are infested with liberal jackasses who hate the South and love the Federal government.
Charleston was not the Confederacy's main harbor.
If you can’t see the point about Fort Sumter controlling Charleston Harbor then you are a dishonest person.
You actually might be right about New Orleans having most of the cotton trade but I don’t know. I do know that Charleston was a very important Southern port. Maybe the most important one.
Don’t let the door hit you on the butt on the way out.
Just as I suspected. You are a liberal Republican.
I bet you support Bush.
I remember years ago we used to have these same discussions with a couple of other Yankee liars.
Someone finally outed them as having voted for Clinton (twice).
Thank you.
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Yeah the way the fort halted all shipping into and out of Charleston was really an act of agg...oh wait.
You actually might be right about New Orleans having most of the cotton trade but I don’t know
No, you don't. Yet that doesn't stop you from denying everything.
Ukraine, 1932
Fort Sumter did control the entrance to Charleston Harbor.
Do you think they would have allowed shipping to pass unmolested once Lincoln invaded?
Of course not.
Sorry to disappoint you. I have voted for every Republican Presidential candidate since Richard Nixon. For the last thirty years I have voted for every Virginia Republican governor candidate, every Republican candidate from my congressional district and every Republican senatorial candidate.
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