Posted on 01/25/2017 12:02:45 PM PST by pissant
Presidents hang portraits of their favorite President in the Oval Office. I’m told Obama’s was of himself.
Jackson, Martin van Buren and William Crawford were effectively the co-founders of the Democratic Party, which started out at the party of the smallholding farmer.
Jackson is truly Trump’s political father in many ways. Perhaps, he’ll settle with his enemies as Jackson was famous for doing, the duel. He carried around a good amount of lead in his body during his lifetime....
Pres. Jackson was of Scotch/Irish parentage. That’s a fierce combination. Trump’s parentage is Scotch/German...imagine he has a bit of “fierce” in him himself.
I also have a deep respect for President Jackson, but if I remember my Disney correctly Davey Crockett was feuding with him. What was that all about?
Man! Where have you been? That was put back the day he took office.
Been busy?
Not exactly what I would have chosen. The Andy Jackson cheese wheel in the White House was pretty cool, though.
The only way to get back into Jackson's good graces was to take a bullet from him in a duel and live to tell the tale. Once that happened, Jackson would say, "Oh, he's a fine fellow!"
I think it was related to Indian policy.
Jackson got the Indian Removal Act passed in 1830 and started seizing Indian lands that year. The Cherokee lands were seized in 1835, although the forcible removal of them didn’t occur until a few years later.
I know Jackson’s history, but when you read about his way of doing things, and he wasn’t called ‘Old Hickory’ for nothing, he does remind you a lot of President Trump in a lot of ways...
Ugh. Jackson, father of the ‘rat party. Instituted the corrupt “spoils system.”
Terrible choice.
There is sometimes a remarkable resemblance passed down among male descendants. I’ve seen it myself, first hand. Out of all the Presidents to be related to (distantly I might add, goes back to 17th c. Virginia), I’m related to Jimmuh. There are a lot of Carters around where I grew up, my grandmother’s attorney was one, a cousin. If Jimmy Carter had had red hair, he’d have had a twin in that guy. Numerous others with an obvious resemblance.
The Carter clan is a very old, very widespread one in the south. They were among the wealthiest if not the wealthiest people in the early colonial era, many, many descendants. I think a lot of us knew some of them or were related, and held them in high regard. That’s why he won despite a few early warning signals. Jimmuh was a dud but I think deep down a reasonably decent person. His far-flung family certainly tends to be.
I don’t doubt that this man shared an ancestor or close relative of Andrew Jackson. He was born arguably in NC, or some say SC, not that far to the east from where that couple lived.
That’s a good match. Jackson was a fighter. But interesting, a democrat.
Jackson also took a lot of flack about his wife Rachel, who he dearly loved- and the libs are making the Trump family women and children a target.
I have read that most of the “first families” of Virginia including Robert E. Lee, were descended from Pocahontas.
Exactly-—here’s from Dinesh:
Andrew Jackson. He—not Thomas Jefferson or FDR—is the true founder of the modern Democratic Party. Progressives today are divided about Jackson. Some, like historian Sean Wilentz, admire him, while others want to remove him from the $20 bill because he was a slaveowner and a vicious Indian fighter. He was, in this view, a very bad American.
I support the debunking of Jackson, but not because he was a bad American—rather, because he was a typical crooked Democrat. Jackson established the Democratic Party as the party of theft. He mastered the art of stealing land from the Indians and then selling it at giveaway prices to white settlers. Jackson’s expectation was that those people would support him politically, as indeed they did. Jackson was indeed a “man of the people,” but his popularity was that of a gang leader who distributes his spoils in exchange for loyalty on the part of those who benefit from his crimes.
Harriet Tubman was a Republican African American woman, who carried a gun. Liberals worst nightmare.
:)
I believed it was a wicked, unjust measure ... I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgement.
There may have been more to it than that. Crockett thought Jackson was high-handed and tyrannical.
Still, Davy beat up an attempted presidential assassin and possibly saved Jackson's life. Maybe Crockett should be on the $20 bill.
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