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Oct. 31st, 2008
It's All Been Done Before
Oct. 31st, 2008 10:32 pmThink the smear campaigns are awful this election season?
They are. But that's not new. Get a load of some of the manure spread by our founding fathers:
"...hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." ~ Thomas Jefferson's campaign smear against John Adams
"...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." John Adams' campaign against Thomas Jefferson
Adams also issued pamphlets claiming that if Jefferson was elected that he would destroy Christianity and that "prostitutes will preside in the sanctuaries now devoted to the worship of the Most High."
On the other side of the fence, [Thomas Jefferson's 'campaign manager'] James Callendar convinced Americans that Adams wanted to begin a war with France! (If they'd had politifact or factcheck.org, they would have rated that one 'pants on fire')
Later Callendar turned on Jefferson and accussed Jefferson of having had an affair with his late wife's 'mulatto' half-sister, Sally Hemmings, with whom Jefferson had children. History, and DNA tests, have proved claims of a physical relationship and of having children with Sally Hemmings to be true.
Not to be outdone, Adams claimed that Jefferson supported the "teaching of murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." (considering that none of this happened after Jefferson won, let's label this one 'pants on fire' as well.)
Go another generation and we have John Adams' son, John Quincy Adams' two campaigns against Andrew Jackson. One led to a newspaper op-ed stating, "General Jackson's mother was a COMMON PROSTITUTE, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterward married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!" (Heh! They even used the capslock of rage and exclamation points).
In the same campaign, John Quincy was labeled a 'pimp,' and Andrew Jackson's wife called a 'slut'...well, generally they called Jackson and his wife 'adulterers', claiming that their marriage wasn't legal because she was married to someone else. (She was divorced. Guess they missed the memo. Or maybe it was with Obama's birth certificate).
John Quincy also distributed the Coffin Handbill (the 1828 version of the racist 'Obama foodstamp') that claimed that Jackson was a lunatic who had killed six men in New Orleans for no reason.
In the 1840 presidential race, Martin Van Buren was labeled an 'elitist' because he (gasp!) had a BATHTUB! (Apparently bathing was like Starbucks and arugula... only for elitist losers... because he did. Lose that is (and, I assume, bathe). Van Buren lost to Willilam Henry Harrison who campaigned as the 'Log Cabin' candidate (not just a 'Log Cabin Republican,' the literal kind, made of logs) but who actually lived in a mansion in Ohio.
“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?” became a popular campaign slogan in James Blaine's 1884 campaign against Grover Cleveland, when the question of whether Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock overtook the campaign rhetoric.
Cleveland's counter response? “James, James, James G. Blaine…Continental Liar from the state of Maine.” (Wonder if he invented "I'm rubber, you're glue..."
So sad, infuriating, batshit, and stupid claims of Manchurian Muslims, being sworn in on the Koran, being the freaking (Are you kidding me?!) anti-Christ who ran an evol, destructive 'radical educational board' (funded by Republicans) while experimenting with Socialism may be, remember in 1828 the incumbent party issued a pamphlet claiming that if Andrew Jackson was elected he'd have everyone hanged! ;)
They are. But that's not new. Get a load of some of the manure spread by our founding fathers:
"...hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." ~ Thomas Jefferson's campaign smear against John Adams
"...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." John Adams' campaign against Thomas Jefferson
Adams also issued pamphlets claiming that if Jefferson was elected that he would destroy Christianity and that "prostitutes will preside in the sanctuaries now devoted to the worship of the Most High."
On the other side of the fence, [Thomas Jefferson's 'campaign manager'] James Callendar convinced Americans that Adams wanted to begin a war with France! (If they'd had politifact or factcheck.org, they would have rated that one 'pants on fire')
Later Callendar turned on Jefferson and accussed Jefferson of having had an affair with his late wife's 'mulatto' half-sister, Sally Hemmings, with whom Jefferson had children. History, and DNA tests, have proved claims of a physical relationship and of having children with Sally Hemmings to be true.
Not to be outdone, Adams claimed that Jefferson supported the "teaching of murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." (considering that none of this happened after Jefferson won, let's label this one 'pants on fire' as well.)
Go another generation and we have John Adams' son, John Quincy Adams' two campaigns against Andrew Jackson. One led to a newspaper op-ed stating, "General Jackson's mother was a COMMON PROSTITUTE, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterward married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!" (Heh! They even used the capslock of rage and exclamation points).
In the same campaign, John Quincy was labeled a 'pimp,' and Andrew Jackson's wife called a 'slut'...well, generally they called Jackson and his wife 'adulterers', claiming that their marriage wasn't legal because she was married to someone else. (She was divorced. Guess they missed the memo. Or maybe it was with Obama's birth certificate).
John Quincy also distributed the Coffin Handbill (the 1828 version of the racist 'Obama foodstamp') that claimed that Jackson was a lunatic who had killed six men in New Orleans for no reason.
In the 1840 presidential race, Martin Van Buren was labeled an 'elitist' because he (gasp!) had a BATHTUB! (Apparently bathing was like Starbucks and arugula... only for elitist losers... because he did. Lose that is (and, I assume, bathe). Van Buren lost to Willilam Henry Harrison who campaigned as the 'Log Cabin' candidate (not just a 'Log Cabin Republican,' the literal kind, made of logs) but who actually lived in a mansion in Ohio.
“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?” became a popular campaign slogan in James Blaine's 1884 campaign against Grover Cleveland, when the question of whether Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock overtook the campaign rhetoric.
Cleveland's counter response? “James, James, James G. Blaine…Continental Liar from the state of Maine.” (Wonder if he invented "I'm rubber, you're glue..."
So sad, infuriating, batshit, and stupid claims of Manchurian Muslims, being sworn in on the Koran, being the freaking (Are you kidding me?!) anti-Christ who ran an evol, destructive 'radical educational board' (funded by Republicans) while experimenting with Socialism may be, remember in 1828 the incumbent party issued a pamphlet claiming that if Andrew Jackson was elected he'd have everyone hanged! ;)
It's All Been Done Before
Oct. 31st, 2008 10:32 pmThink the smear campaigns are awful this election season?
They are. But that's not new. Get a load of some of the manure spread by our founding fathers:
"...hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." ~ Thomas Jefferson's campaign smear against John Adams
"...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." John Adams' campaign against Thomas Jefferson
Adams also issued pamphlets claiming that if Jefferson was elected that he would destroy Christianity and that "prostitutes will preside in the sanctuaries now devoted to the worship of the Most High."
On the other side of the fence, [Thomas Jefferson's 'campaign manager'] James Callendar convinced Americans that Adams wanted to begin a war with France! (If they'd had politifact or factcheck.org, they would have rated that one 'pants on fire')
Later Callendar turned on Jefferson and accussed Jefferson of having had an affair with his late wife's 'mulatto' half-sister, Sally Hemmings, with whom Jefferson had children. History, and DNA tests, have proved claims of a physical relationship and of having children with Sally Hemmings to be true.
Not to be outdone, Adams claimed that Jefferson supported the "teaching of murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." (considering that none of this happened after Jefferson won, let's label this one 'pants on fire' as well.)
Go another generation and we have John Adams' son, John Quincy Adams' two campaigns against Andrew Jackson. One led to a newspaper op-ed stating, "General Jackson's mother was a COMMON PROSTITUTE, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterward married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!" (Heh! They even used the capslock of rage and exclamation points).
In the same campaign, John Quincy was labeled a 'pimp,' and Andrew Jackson's wife called a 'slut'...well, generally they called Jackson and his wife 'adulterers', claiming that their marriage wasn't legal because she was married to someone else. (She was divorced. Guess they missed the memo. Or maybe it was with Obama's birth certificate).
John Quincy also distributed the Coffin Handbill (the 1828 version of the racist 'Obama foodstamp') that claimed that Jackson was a lunatic who had killed six men in New Orleans for no reason.
In the 1840 presidential race, Martin Van Buren was labeled an 'elitist' because he (gasp!) had a BATHTUB! (Apparently bathing was like Starbucks and arugula... only for elitist losers... because he did. Lose that is (and, I assume, bathe). Van Buren lost to Willilam Henry Harrison who campaigned as the 'Log Cabin' candidate (not just a 'Log Cabin Republican,' the literal kind, made of logs) but who actually lived in a mansion in Ohio.
“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?” became a popular campaign slogan in James Blaine's 1884 campaign against Grover Cleveland, when the question of whether Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock overtook the campaign rhetoric.
Cleveland's counter response? “James, James, James G. Blaine…Continental Liar from the state of Maine.” (Wonder if he invented "I'm rubber, you're glue..."
So sad, infuriating, batshit, and stupid claims of Manchurian Muslims, being sworn in on the Koran, being the freaking (Are you kidding me?!) anti-Christ who ran an evol, destructive 'radical educational board' (funded by Republicans) while experimenting with Socialism may be, remember in 1828 the incumbent party issued a pamphlet claiming that if Andrew Jackson was elected he'd have everyone hanged! ;)
They are. But that's not new. Get a load of some of the manure spread by our founding fathers:
"...hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." ~ Thomas Jefferson's campaign smear against John Adams
"...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." John Adams' campaign against Thomas Jefferson
Adams also issued pamphlets claiming that if Jefferson was elected that he would destroy Christianity and that "prostitutes will preside in the sanctuaries now devoted to the worship of the Most High."
On the other side of the fence, [Thomas Jefferson's 'campaign manager'] James Callendar convinced Americans that Adams wanted to begin a war with France! (If they'd had politifact or factcheck.org, they would have rated that one 'pants on fire')
Later Callendar turned on Jefferson and accussed Jefferson of having had an affair with his late wife's 'mulatto' half-sister, Sally Hemmings, with whom Jefferson had children. History, and DNA tests, have proved claims of a physical relationship and of having children with Sally Hemmings to be true.
Not to be outdone, Adams claimed that Jefferson supported the "teaching of murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." (considering that none of this happened after Jefferson won, let's label this one 'pants on fire' as well.)
Go another generation and we have John Adams' son, John Quincy Adams' two campaigns against Andrew Jackson. One led to a newspaper op-ed stating, "General Jackson's mother was a COMMON PROSTITUTE, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterward married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!" (Heh! They even used the capslock of rage and exclamation points).
In the same campaign, John Quincy was labeled a 'pimp,' and Andrew Jackson's wife called a 'slut'...well, generally they called Jackson and his wife 'adulterers', claiming that their marriage wasn't legal because she was married to someone else. (She was divorced. Guess they missed the memo. Or maybe it was with Obama's birth certificate).
John Quincy also distributed the Coffin Handbill (the 1828 version of the racist 'Obama foodstamp') that claimed that Jackson was a lunatic who had killed six men in New Orleans for no reason.
In the 1840 presidential race, Martin Van Buren was labeled an 'elitist' because he (gasp!) had a BATHTUB! (Apparently bathing was like Starbucks and arugula... only for elitist losers... because he did. Lose that is (and, I assume, bathe). Van Buren lost to Willilam Henry Harrison who campaigned as the 'Log Cabin' candidate (not just a 'Log Cabin Republican,' the literal kind, made of logs) but who actually lived in a mansion in Ohio.
“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?” became a popular campaign slogan in James Blaine's 1884 campaign against Grover Cleveland, when the question of whether Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock overtook the campaign rhetoric.
Cleveland's counter response? “James, James, James G. Blaine…Continental Liar from the state of Maine.” (Wonder if he invented "I'm rubber, you're glue..."
So sad, infuriating, batshit, and stupid claims of Manchurian Muslims, being sworn in on the Koran, being the freaking (Are you kidding me?!) anti-Christ who ran an evol, destructive 'radical educational board' (funded by Republicans) while experimenting with Socialism may be, remember in 1828 the incumbent party issued a pamphlet claiming that if Andrew Jackson was elected he'd have everyone hanged! ;)
It's All Been Done Before
Oct. 31st, 2008 10:32 pmThink the smear campaigns are awful this election season?
They are. But that's not new. Get a load of some of the manure spread by our founding fathers:
"...hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." ~ Thomas Jefferson's campaign smear against John Adams
"...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." John Adams' campaign against Thomas Jefferson
Adams also issued pamphlets claiming that if Jefferson was elected that he would destroy Christianity and that "prostitutes will preside in the sanctuaries now devoted to the worship of the Most High."
On the other side of the fence, [Thomas Jefferson's 'campaign manager'] James Callendar convinced Americans that Adams wanted to begin a war with France! (If they'd had politifact or factcheck.org, they would have rated that one 'pants on fire')
Later Callendar turned on Jefferson and accussed Jefferson of having had an affair with his late wife's 'mulatto' half-sister, Sally Hemmings, with whom Jefferson had children. History, and DNA tests, have proved claims of a physical relationship and of having children with Sally Hemmings to be true.
Not to be outdone, Adams claimed that Jefferson supported the "teaching of murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." (considering that none of this happened after Jefferson won, let's label this one 'pants on fire' as well.)
Go another generation and we have John Adams' son, John Quincy Adams' two campaigns against Andrew Jackson. One led to a newspaper op-ed stating, "General Jackson's mother was a COMMON PROSTITUTE, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterward married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!" (Heh! They even used the capslock of rage and exclamation points).
In the same campaign, John Quincy was labeled a 'pimp,' and Andrew Jackson's wife called a 'slut'...well, generally they called Jackson and his wife 'adulterers', claiming that their marriage wasn't legal because she was married to someone else. (She was divorced. Guess they missed the memo. Or maybe it was with Obama's birth certificate).
John Quincy also distributed the Coffin Handbill (the 1828 version of the racist 'Obama foodstamp') that claimed that Jackson was a lunatic who had killed six men in New Orleans for no reason.
In the 1840 presidential race, Martin Van Buren was labeled an 'elitist' because he (gasp!) had a BATHTUB! (Apparently bathing was like Starbucks and arugula... only for elitist losers... because he did. Lose that is (and, I assume, bathe). Van Buren lost to Willilam Henry Harrison who campaigned as the 'Log Cabin' candidate (not just a 'Log Cabin Republican,' the literal kind, made of logs) but who actually lived in a mansion in Ohio.
“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?” became a popular campaign slogan in James Blaine's 1884 campaign against Grover Cleveland, when the question of whether Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock overtook the campaign rhetoric.
Cleveland's counter response? “James, James, James G. Blaine…Continental Liar from the state of Maine.” (Wonder if he invented "I'm rubber, you're glue..."
So sad, infuriating, batshit, and stupid claims of Manchurian Muslims, being sworn in on the Koran, being the freaking (Are you kidding me?!) anti-Christ who ran an evol, destructive 'radical educational board' (funded by Republicans) while experimenting with Socialism may be, remember in 1828 the incumbent party issued a pamphlet claiming that if Andrew Jackson was elected he'd have everyone hanged! ;)
They are. But that's not new. Get a load of some of the manure spread by our founding fathers:
"...hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." ~ Thomas Jefferson's campaign smear against John Adams
"...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father." John Adams' campaign against Thomas Jefferson
Adams also issued pamphlets claiming that if Jefferson was elected that he would destroy Christianity and that "prostitutes will preside in the sanctuaries now devoted to the worship of the Most High."
On the other side of the fence, [Thomas Jefferson's 'campaign manager'] James Callendar convinced Americans that Adams wanted to begin a war with France! (If they'd had politifact or factcheck.org, they would have rated that one 'pants on fire')
Later Callendar turned on Jefferson and accussed Jefferson of having had an affair with his late wife's 'mulatto' half-sister, Sally Hemmings, with whom Jefferson had children. History, and DNA tests, have proved claims of a physical relationship and of having children with Sally Hemmings to be true.
Not to be outdone, Adams claimed that Jefferson supported the "teaching of murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." (considering that none of this happened after Jefferson won, let's label this one 'pants on fire' as well.)
Go another generation and we have John Adams' son, John Quincy Adams' two campaigns against Andrew Jackson. One led to a newspaper op-ed stating, "General Jackson's mother was a COMMON PROSTITUTE, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterward married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!" (Heh! They even used the capslock of rage and exclamation points).
In the same campaign, John Quincy was labeled a 'pimp,' and Andrew Jackson's wife called a 'slut'...well, generally they called Jackson and his wife 'adulterers', claiming that their marriage wasn't legal because she was married to someone else. (She was divorced. Guess they missed the memo. Or maybe it was with Obama's birth certificate).
John Quincy also distributed the Coffin Handbill (the 1828 version of the racist 'Obama foodstamp') that claimed that Jackson was a lunatic who had killed six men in New Orleans for no reason.
In the 1840 presidential race, Martin Van Buren was labeled an 'elitist' because he (gasp!) had a BATHTUB! (Apparently bathing was like Starbucks and arugula... only for elitist losers... because he did. Lose that is (and, I assume, bathe). Van Buren lost to Willilam Henry Harrison who campaigned as the 'Log Cabin' candidate (not just a 'Log Cabin Republican,' the literal kind, made of logs) but who actually lived in a mansion in Ohio.
“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa?” became a popular campaign slogan in James Blaine's 1884 campaign against Grover Cleveland, when the question of whether Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock overtook the campaign rhetoric.
Cleveland's counter response? “James, James, James G. Blaine…Continental Liar from the state of Maine.” (Wonder if he invented "I'm rubber, you're glue..."
So sad, infuriating, batshit, and stupid claims of Manchurian Muslims, being sworn in on the Koran, being the freaking (Are you kidding me?!) anti-Christ who ran an evol, destructive 'radical educational board' (funded by Republicans) while experimenting with Socialism may be, remember in 1828 the incumbent party issued a pamphlet claiming that if Andrew Jackson was elected he'd have everyone hanged! ;)