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Posted: 8/29/2004 9:49:57 PM EDT
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More like the next Anti_Christ
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Posted: 8/29/2004 9:50:02 PM EDT
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duels would set this country straight these days......thats all.
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Posted: 8/29/2004 9:52:21 PM EDT
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no I think even Kerry is too below that......
he's worse |
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Posted: 8/29/2004 9:55:52 PM EDT
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Dunno, but Milton Friedman is our contemporary Alexander Hamilton.
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Posted: 8/29/2004 9:59:13 PM EDT
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Me thinks he is just an asshole.
-Aaron Burr |
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Posted: 8/29/2004 10:01:53 PM EDT
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There's only one kind of traitor. The kind who should be hanged.  www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=267720 |
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Posted: 8/29/2004 10:02:03 PM EDT
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You shouldn't insult Aaron Burr by comparing him to such low company as John Kerry.
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Posted: 8/29/2004 10:07:44 PM EDT
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So Kerry is somewhere inbetween Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr?
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Posted: 8/29/2004 10:09:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/30/2004 3:15:25 AM EDT
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Actually, Clinton was closer to Aaron Burr, except he didn't have an Alexander Hamilton hounding him. Unfortunate, since he deserved to be hounded and Burr probably didn't.
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Posted: 8/30/2004 4:57:02 AM EDT
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I saw that special on the History Channel. They almost made Burr out to be a saint, while making Hamilton and Jefferson look like assholes. I was a little confused about it. I could understand some of the gripe about Hamilton, but the negative slant toward Jefferson sort of put me off. I wonder who wrote the script.
As far as John Kerry, I wouldn't compare him to Aaron Burr. He's more like Benedict Arnold. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 5:10:19 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/30/2004 5:21:41 AM EDT
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"Hosted by Richard Dreyfuss" == "leftist propaganda" I didn't see it, I figured it would be anti-gun or something. I am disappointed by the History Channel more and more. It is becoming a propaganda arm for the military/industrial complex and the socialists. They seem to inject a lot of commentary into every subject matter. Example: Keith Carradine talking about Wild West Technology. Awful lot of opinion mixed in with the facts there. Yeah, it's reality tv entertainment, but you can sure tell the difference between that and the Civil War shows that merely try to describe actual events without any "personality" telling you how it was. They should change "Tactical to Practical" "Expensive and Impractical to Practical" |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 5:51:28 AM EDT
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There was really nothing much leftist about it, other than, perhaps, the leftist tendency to want to tear down American icons. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 6:12:02 AM EDT
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Burr was a political opportunist - much moreso than anyone around today; Hamilton was a visionary genius; Jefferson was a paranoid (yet brillant) thinker. The behavior of Jefferson and Madison towards Hamilton was absurd. Had the Maria Reynolds affair not dogged Hamilton he would certainly have been elected president and he'd have a monument on the mall instead of Jefferson. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 6:16:43 AM EDT
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Hamilton lacked the temperment to be a good president IMHO. As the special showed, he took everything way too personally. Plus, ironically for a man who came up from virtually nothing, Hamilton was an elitist. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 6:19:35 AM EDT
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Hamilton's temperment was no better or worse than Adams'. If the special tagged him as an elitist, it was written/produced from an anti-Federalist perspective. Historians are evenly split on this. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 6:25:18 AM EDT
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It didn't comment on that...I call him an elitist based on my studies of him. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 6:33:59 AM EDT
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You could certainly come up with enough Hamilton quotes to supprt that position, but IMO, Hamilton always did what was best for the future of the country as a whole. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 6:36:22 AM EDT
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Oh, there's no argument on that. He was a principled man, and he loved this country, but his ideas for how to run it were a bit elitist for me. I prefer a Jeffersonian attitude, although I understand that Jefferson's ideal of an agrarian America was always a pipe dream. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 6:40:22 AM EDT
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The modern axiom that would apply to Hamilton's outlook is:
"What's good for big business is good for America" Big business (really any business other than a sole proprietorship) was seen as "Angloman" at the time, and thus elitist and monarchist. |
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Posted: 8/30/2004 6:41:48 AM EDT
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Hamilton really was an economic genius...well ahead of his time. |
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