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Kathleen Parker Falsely Claims Alexander Hamilton was an Illegal Immigrant
NewsBusters.org ^ | 11/19/2010 | Matthew Balan

Posted on 11/19/2010 1:12:45 PM PST by Pyro7480

On Thursday's Parker-Spitzer, CNN's Kathleen Parker bizarrely and inaccurately claimed that Alexander Hamilton came to the United States illegally and drafted the Constitution: "Let's remember...a lot of Americans did come through the back door such as Alexander Hamilton. He got off the boat from the West Indies, and all he did was write the Constitution and become the first Secretary of the Treasury."

Parker raised this false history during a discussion of Pedro Ramirez, Fresno State University's student body president, who was outed as an illegal immigrant by a student newspaper. After playing clips from Ramirez and his opponent during the student election, who is also the president of the Fresno State College Republicans, the CNN host displayed sympathy for the college student: "This is kind of a classic though, isn't it, really? I mean, you've the college Republican versus the illegal immigrant, and it's kind of a classic clash, you know, that corresponds to this immigration debate we're having in this country. And clearly, when you put a human face on the illegal immigrant, it's a different story. I mean, nobody wants to punish this young 22-year-old."

...Actually, Hamilton came to New York City from the British West Indies in 1774 to study at King College, which was renamed Columbia University after the American War for Independence. Of course, New York was still a British colony at this point, so the young Hamilton didn't "come through the back door."

More importantly, Hamilton didn't write the Constitution- that credit generally goes to James Madison....

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To: RobbyS

I’ve seen the place. The modern seacoast barriers are of RECENT origin BTW.


141 posted on 11/19/2010 7:58:18 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: Pyro7480

She is insane


142 posted on 11/19/2010 8:38:41 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Pyro7480

Gouverneur Morris wrote the Constitution. Hamilton was on the Committee on Style as well. Hamilton was more responsible for its creation and ratification than any other many being the first to call for a new constitution and then writing two thirds of the Federalist which argued for its acceptance.

He also led the NY Ratification Convention to ratify despite the fact that the political opposition led by Gov. Clinton had a two thirds majority initially against it.

It was not an accident that despite not being born in a colony Hamilton was made eligible to be president. He came to this country probably in October of 1772. Thus, he resided here more than the 14 yrs required to be eligible for the presidency as specified in the Constitution.

He was the chief aide to Washington during almost the whole of the Revolutionary War and was like the son George never had. He trusted Hamilton more than any man.

Outside of Washington Hamilton was the most remarkable of the Revolutionary generation and was as responsible as anyone for the great initial success of the new nation. A great American Hero.


143 posted on 11/19/2010 9:20:15 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: Little Bill

You know nothing of Hamilton from that 100% false remark.


144 posted on 11/19/2010 9:21:46 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: wideawake

Tom “The Liar” Jefferson did a number on the far greater man which has ruined his reputation for over 200 yrs. Of course, he also did a number on the asshat who killed him too. He was a mountain of duplicity a true Democrat.


145 posted on 11/19/2010 9:24:09 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: Pyro7480

He was only speaking of the functional role of the Executive.
He never proposed a nobility or inherited Executive and repeatedly said that a monarchy was foreign to the spirit of the American people. Jeffersonian slanders made the ridiculous claim that H. was a monarchist. His press liars ran with it.


146 posted on 11/19/2010 9:27:34 PM PST by arrogantsob
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To: logician2u
Little did I know, then, that Hamilton was not quite in the tradition of other founders. Like, he might have been the original elitist, a member of "the ruling class" recently brought to the public's attention by Dr. Angelo Codevilla in his magnificent book.
In the real world all society have elites. Jefferson despised novles, but believed in an aristocracy of merit. What he failed to appreciate is that this meritocracy would be a bunch of rootless cosmopolitans who confuse oikophobia with sophistication. But if your problem is with a ruling class can you find a worse one than a slave-holding class that is elected by appeals democracy, opposition to tradition, and the first urban machines. I'm talking about Jerfferson-Burr and the Democrat party.

As for Thomas DiLorenzo, don't make me laugh. He despises Hamilton, but as a paleoconservative he likes economic protectionism, except when it was supported by Lincoln. He claims to be part of an old tradition, when paleoconservatism was created in the 1980s in protest to Mel Bradford not becoming director of the NEH. Thomas DiLorenzo lives in a sounding chamber of lunacy where Hamilton = Lincoln = Roosevelt = Obama.

147 posted on 11/19/2010 9:57:35 PM PST by rmlew (You want change? Vote for the most conservative electable in your state or district.)
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To: RobbyS

Hamilton is the reason Washington DC exists. Madison saw it burned under his administration because he failed to heed Hamilton and Washington’s warnings.


148 posted on 11/19/2010 10:01:13 PM PST by rmlew (You want change? Vote for the most conservative electable in your state or district.)
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To: Pyro7480

Parker is an imbecilic ignorant twit

Hamilton came into a British colony (New York) before the United States of America even existed.


149 posted on 11/19/2010 10:02:36 PM PST by Enchante (What if the Olberdork returned to the air - and no one notices.... or cares?)
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To: Diogenesis
I would not ever vote for Romney, but I am uncomfortable by your suggestion that we should judge people by what their grandparents did. Should I ignore your actions and character and judge you on your grandparents.

Are you also asserting Romney is not a citizen of the United States?

150 posted on 11/20/2010 12:53:53 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Madame Dufarge

Adams was fond of referring to him as “...the bastard son of a Scottish peddlar.”


151 posted on 11/20/2010 3:38:50 AM PST by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: paterfamilias

Wow! Not exactly Ivy League - although I mean no offense to Florida State.

And this ignorant woman DARES to question Sarah’s brains and education?


152 posted on 11/20/2010 4:04:05 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: Pyro7480
" Video at the link. She's grasping at straws... "

She is polluting the minds of the sheeple, she knows that most of the American sheeple are illiterate and only get their news and view of the world through American Idol.
153 posted on 11/20/2010 5:35:19 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: bigbob
" We need an image to post every time Kate Parker’s name comes up... "

Like those war on drugs commercials, instead of " This is your brain on drugs " .... it should be " this is your brain on public education and sopping up main steam media's lies " ...
154 posted on 11/20/2010 5:45:00 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: muawiyah

After a thorough search all I could find of Lee’s court martial is that Lord Stirling presided, with both prosecuting officers and defendants lawyers listed as unknown.


155 posted on 11/20/2010 5:46:54 AM PST by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

No, I never heard that phrase. Must be a Yankee thing.

How do you uppity remarks excuse the sorry Fed Reserve of today?

Do you have any idea of the consequeces of borrowing or printing our way out of debt have had on our current condition?

Thomas Jefferson said:

“To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we (will then) be taxed in our meat and our drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they (will) be happy.”


156 posted on 11/20/2010 5:48:27 AM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: Little Bill
Regardless who was under Washington, George Washington didn't seek that power.
He was very reluctant to be the CIC of the Continental Army, and he was called the reluctant President because he didn't want that power, he only took that position out of duty and loyalty of the United States.
157 posted on 11/20/2010 5:49:34 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: metesky
It's such an obscure item it does take a lot of searching to discover who the members were.

What you have to do is search for the MEMBER, then for Lee. If you do it the other way around it's just awful.

I've even found the situation referenced in a book on George Rogers Clark, and also in various documents submitted by Revolutionary War soldiers pursuing a government pension in their old age.

158 posted on 11/20/2010 5:49:45 AM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: metesky
If you find a reference that says "Lord Stirling" and not "William Alexander", you are into the wrong reference ~ William's baby daddy was still alive as best I could tell, and he'd already lost a law case in the UK courts about who was the Lord.

There are also THREE major Alexander clan settlements ~ and early writers talked about the settlement areas as if the others didn't exist. Fur Shur they swapped cousins for marriage purposes.

We have a line of Benjamin and William Alexanders running back centuries, and doggone if that's not one devil of a genealogical trail ~ and sometimes a man would have two Williams, and three Benjamins (just in case somebody died there'd be a spare).

159 posted on 11/20/2010 5:53:26 AM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: colorado tanker
" Stick to you guns and keep fighting, Kathleen! Nothing is over until you decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? "

Yes Kathleen, was it over when John Adams from Apollo 13 said " Huston, we have a problem " ????
160 posted on 11/20/2010 6:08:06 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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