Posted on 02/15/2010 2:11:56 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Here’s a tune partly about General Jackson who lived 78 years which was pretty good back then. A really angry man, consumed by anger, doesn’t live that long. I see a smear by the liberal press of that time (half-joking)
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In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.
[Chorus:]
We fired our guns and the British kept a’comin.
There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin’ on
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
We looked down the river and we see’d the British come.
And there must have been a hundred of’em beatin’ on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.
We stood by our cotton bales and didn’t say a thing.
[Chorus]
Old Hickory said we could take ‘em by surprise
If we didn’t fire our muskets ‘til we looked ‘em in the eye
We held our fire ‘til we see’d their faces well.
Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave ‘em ... well
[Chorus]
Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.**
We fired our cannon ‘til the barrel melted down.
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.
[Chorus]
Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.**
No jfk deserve kudos for being a PT boat captian.. And getting jacked by a japenese destroyer.Oh and Banging Marilyn!
You quite literally couldn’t kill Jackson with small-pox and you couldn’t knock out Washington’s teeth. I think a lot of TR’s reputation was early PR, although by today’s standards he was still pretty rough.
All of your criteria would be met by Washington. He was no gung-ho warrior, but one who was a warrior when that was just and necessary for his country, not as a rule of life. In contrast, Teddie Roosevelt was someone who sought war when it was not necessary. He apparently wanted a war with Germany when there was no real need for it, because to him war was an ego thing. The man was a weak and sickly youth who sought combat to boost his own self-esteem.
So, I’m guessing JFK had stones the size of BBs...
THE BRAVE BOY OF THE WAXHAWS
"Andrew Jackson, the Seventh President of the United States, in 1780 when a boy of 13 enlisted in the cause of his country, and was taken prisoner by the British. When ordered by an officer to clean his boots, he indignantly refused, and received a sword cut for his temerity."
Andrew Jackson was also the first Democrat president. Coincidence? I think not.
And the progressive intellectual Woodrow Wilson is in that list.
He is the only PhD president
He ran Princeton University for eight years
A pie in the sky utopian academic same as 0bama
Glenn Beck calls them progressives
Wilson is the most evil American progressive of all time
And pulled a scam with his wife where he had a stroke but no one was told
And she covered for him the last 1.5 years of his Presidency
She held and steadied his hand as he signed legislation
-PJ
So true. Jackson was quite a fighter but Washington’s greatness and toughness far beyond any others.
as of now
Which President Had The Most Manly Attributes?
Teddy Roosevelt — spoke softly and carried a big stick 518 (48.9%)
George Washington — probably invented the stick 200 (18.9%)
Andrew Jackson — “Old Hickory” was as unbending as a hickory stick 175 (16.5%)
John F. Kennedy — liked to stick it to the ladies 112 (10.6%)
Another president — tell us why in the comment section 54 (5.1%)
Thanks to Wilson and the Brits and French we got Hitler and the slaughter of 50 million People.. Some Utopia guy! Not you Dennis but Woodrow.
Isn’t HW the President with the most war decorations?
I think a lot of TR’s reputation was early PR, although by today’s standards he was still pretty rough.
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I agree. He had plenty of family money to promote his manly image. Teddy just seems to have worked too hard at the manly thing while Andrew Jackson and George Washington lived it so the manly acclaim came to them naturally
No no don’t you know Obama won the 2 world war and Iraq and he even had a hand in The Battle of the Bulge... I mean he makes me gaze in awe at his Medals.
In a few years, Sarah Palin.
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