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JohnQuincyAdams https://www.dailykos.com/news/JohnQuincyAdams News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:32:46 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:32:46 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Ivanka used a dumb fake presidential quote in her book that she clearly learned from her dad https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/8/1660061/-Ivanka-used-a-dumb-fake-presidential-quote-in-her-book-that-she-clearly-learned-from-her-dad When Ivanka Trump is not hard at work in the<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/26/1656405/-Ivanka-Trump-has-been-soliciting-donations-from-foreign-governments-companies-for-a-women-s-fund" target="_blank"> family grifting business</a>, she’s “writing” books with all kinds of interesting information, like <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/4/1658853/-Ivanka-Trump-uses-a-quote-about-American-slavery-to-talk-about-being-a-rich-working-rich-person" target="_blank">American slavery is not unlike being a wealthy woman</a> who is trying to be a parent and a CEO. The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/08/daily-202-ivanka-trump-s-life-of-privilege-undermines-the-credibility-of-her-new-book-s-message/590fc6b4e9b69b6eaccb160d/?utm_term=.4180472c92f6" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> has an article about Ivanka Trump’s newest tome of advice Women Who Work. One of the takeaways from the article is that, not unlike her father, Ivanka Trump says dumb made-up shit to prove vacuous points. <blockquote> But at least Morrison and Mandela uttered the words attributed to them: On page 179, Ivanka opens a section on how to “Lead with purpose from any level” with <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/may/05/ivanka-trump/book-john-quincy-adams-quote/">a fake quote</a> from John Quincy Adams. She claims our sixth president said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” Anyone who has read even a single letter by JQA knows that this neither captures his worldview nor sounds anything like him. Ironically, the president tweeted this same fake quote two years ago: <div class="dk-editor-embed center-block" data-twitter-content='&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams&lt;/p&gt;— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/588733168339017728"&gt;April 16, 2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;'><div class="remove-embed-content">x</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." Ã¢Â€Â“ John Quincy AdamsÃ¢Â€Â” Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/588733168339017728">April 16, 2015</a></blockquote></div> </blockquote> Of course, it’s not “ironic” at all. She’s dumb. He’s dumb. They have lot of money and little time for reality or the history of ideas, or real facts. rss@dailykos.com (Walter Einenkel) Ivanka JohnQuincyAdams trump womenwhowork _1660061 Mon, 08 May 2017 16:33:04 +0000 Consider this list as we go forward https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/15/1548688/-Consider-this-list-as-we-go-forward Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams Martin Van Buren James Buchanan There are other famous names who shared one thing with these gentlemen, but not the other. If you have not yet figured it out, each of these gentlemen was Secretary of State, and later President. Early in our history, when the office had a very different function, it was common — four Presidents in a row had served in that office, and 5 out of 6. It has been a long time since a former Secretary of State became President. Will we add another name to this list this year? rss@dailykos.com (teacherken) JamesBuchanan JamesMadison JamesMonroe JohnQuincyAdams MartinVanBuren President SecretaryofState ThomasJefferson _1548688 Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:32:51 +0000 Good, Bad, Ugly # 20 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/23/1505419/-Good-Bad-Ugly-20 Destinies Erased and Manifested Americans who were assimilated into cultures of the Iberian Peninsula have experienced an additional layer of obstruction by being caught in the middle of American, Spanish, Portuguese, Mexican and other national political struggles. Groups who have owned for millennia ancestral lands that span the Western United States and Central America have been dominated by missionaries, declared noncitizens, deported to reservations on scrap lands, into Mexico, and cycled back in to the States as itinerant laborers who are paid starvation wages. Spanish speaking peoples of all economic classes have, from the beginning of English colonization of North America, been seen as un-American and often a people to be forcefully subjugated to Anglo culture: attitudes rooted as far back as Queen Elizabeth I’s wars with Spain. The State of Texas has been a promoter of this culture war since the early 19th century. Craving cheap land and being determined to coerce unpaid hostages to labor in agribusinesses, plantation owners in the United States began expanding into the Mexican province of Texas in the 1820’s, replicating there apartheid systems of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and other southern states. Having won independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico established home rule in present Central American Mexico and their northern states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and parts of Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas. These United States of Mexico had liberal immigration laws. The Mexican Law of Colonization of the State Coahuila and Texas (March 24, 1825) stipulated that settlers, upon registering, swearing to obey the constitutions and general laws of the nation and the ordinances of the State and the morality and propriety of their conduct, could receive up to 4,959 surface acres (without privatizing mineral or water rights) primarily for ranching. Article 31 of this law states that those “foreigners who agreeably to this law have obtained lands, and established themselves in these settlements, are considered from that moment as naturalized in the country.” But then U.S. immigrants to Mexico started trouble over their perceived right to hold workers hostage. During Mexico’s war of independence from Spain, revolutionaries declared the abolition of slavery in 1810 and reaffirmed it in 1813, but continued conflict with Spain made emancipation precarious. The new government’s Plan of Iguala again officially prohibited slavery in 1821, and President Guerrero signed another abolitionist decree in 1829. Mexico was serious about freedom. But Anglo capitalists fought against Mexico’s repeated crack-downs on their slave-dependent operations in Texas and in turn, Mexico considered Anglo-Americans undesirable immigrants because of their pro-slavery subversive activities. Goaded by anti-slavery regulations, Anglos and Tejano (native Texan) supporters took up arms to secede from Mexico in 1836 and defeated the national government in less than seven months—October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836—when they created the Republic of Texas. Those in charge of this republic, President Sam Houston, Secretary of State Stephen F. Austin, Chief Justice James Collinsworth, and others claimed control of the current state of Texas and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico. For the next nine years, until 1845 when the United States annexed Texas, plantation capitalists from the southern U.S. streamed into Texas territories. In that period, the total hostage population rose by 557.53%, and by 1845, enterprises with 1 to 4 hostage laborers rose by 340.33% and businesses with more than 50 rose by 750.00%.<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a> Mexicans who formerly were legal citizens born in Mexico were at this time unofficially demoted to second class status and subjected to deportation, land thefts, harassment and lynching. While Texicans gathered in their profits, the multitude of land feuds among Anglos and Tejanos illustrated that this war for independence was clearly fought for capitalistic hegemony rather than Enlightenment ideals, although they used patriotic stories like that of the Alamo and Davy Crocket to elevate the revolt to a moral struggle and a war for freedom. The Comanche, Apache, and Navajo organized resistance to the Texican expansion in what is now the western United States, and exhausted by its war of independence with Spain, Mexico regathered its forces to protect its northern territories, but the U.S. government hesitated to get involved. Whigs and Democrats fiercely opposed the annexation of slaveholding Texas at a time when they were trying to defuse Congressional Sectionalism (pro-and-anti slavery partisanism), but President John Tyler reopened negotiations with the Republic of Texas, which gained admission as a state on December 29, 1844, leaving the U.S.’ southern border in dispute. Mexico maintained their claim to territory as far north as the Nueces River, roughly 150 miles north of the Rio Grande, while the U.S. claimed the latter’s border based on the 1836 Treaties of Velasco, which the Mexican government had never ratified. On April 23, 1846 the president of Mexico declared Mexico's intent to fight a defensive war against the encroachment of the United States. John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Joshua Giddings, among many others, spoke out against the U.S. entering a war with Mexico. Giddings addressed Congress, saying “In the murder of Mexicans upon their own soil, or in robbing them of their country, I can take no part either now or hereafter. The guilt of these crimes must rest on others. I will not participate in them.”<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2">[2]</a> Annexation of vast new pro-slavery territories would greatly strengthen their cause in Congress, so Southern Democrats supported and agitated for the war. They justified their position with nationalistic rhetoric of Manifest Destiny. In President James Polk’s administration, Congress declared war with Mexico on May 13, 1846 and it took only 16 months for the United States to defeat its already weakened southern neighbor. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848, establishing the present national borders. Recently, Jeb Bush commented that he ranks James Polk as one of his most admired U.S. presidents <a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3">[3]</a> <div> <hr> <div> <a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> (Texas Slavery Project 2007-2008) </div> <div> , </div> <div> <a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3">[3]</a> (Noble 2015) </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (cncreitz) AbrahamLincoln Democrats Dominionism Ethics History JamesPolk JohnQuincyAdams JohnTyler JoshuaGiddings Liberalism MexicanLawofColonization RepublicofTexas SamHouston StephenF.Austin TreatyofGuadalupe Whigs _1505419 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:45:46 +0000 History of the Democratic Party: The Party of Jackson; or, what Van Buren built https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/6/29/1397677/-History-of-the-Democratic-Party-The-Party-of-Jackson-or-what-Van-Buren-built This series of articles covers the history of the Democratic Party – the oldest continuous political party in the world, one whose history goes back 223 years to nearly the very beginning of the United States government. Its story is as complex as America’s: at times, inspiring; at other times, shameful; and, oftentimes, somewhere in between. There is a thread that connects the party’s history, in my view: namely, that the Democratic Party has always stood, at least in principle, for the ordinary American that deserves as fair a shot at getting ahead as their more privileged, fellow citizens. Even though the Democratic definition of the “ordinary Americans” they stood for has changed over time, this commitment has always been at the core of the party’s values. This series will cover it all – the good, bad, and ugly – and I hope you’ll enjoy it! – Stephen Yellin Previously in this series: <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/14/1393158/-History-of-the-Democratic-Party-a-new-series-The-Party-of-Opposition">The Party of Opposition: 1789-1800</a> <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/21/1395177/-History-of-the-Democratic-Party-a-new-series-The-Party-of-Jefferson">The Party of Jefferson: 1801-1824</a> rss@dailykos.com (MrLiberal) 1824 1828 1844 albanyregency AndrewJackson Democratic National Convention Democratic Party DemocraticNationalConvention DemocraticParty Democrats HenryClay History jacksonian JamesPolk JohnQuincyAdams MartinVanBuren SpoilsSystem _1397677 Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:30:57 +0000 Obama Shakes Hands With Castro: You Just Have To Laugh https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/4/12/1377152/-Obama-Shakes-Hands-With-Castro-You-Just-Have-To-Laugh Does anyone really believe a handshake between President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro heralds a new positive direction for American foreign policy that will actually benefit the people in both the United States and Latin America?  Really? <div class="dkimg-l"><img src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/138123/small/Jamesmonroe-npgallery.jpg?1428815568" alt="" width="250" height="303" /> <div class="dkimg-cap">President James Monroe: He Got All The Credit</div> </div> The United States began to stake out Latin America as its own turf in 1823 when President James Monroe told the Europeans that any attempt to recolonize the Western Hemisphere would be considered “dangerous to our peace and safety.”  This Europe Keep Out message became known as the Monroe Doctrine.  Secretary of State John Quincy Adams was furious because the initiative had been his idea and he thought it should have been called the Adams Doctrine. In 1845, President James K. Polk, spoiling for a fight against our weaker southern neighbor, ginned up Congress and under the guise of Manifest Destiny extracted a Declaration of War against Mexico.  In short order, the United States stole Texas and the California and New Mexico territories collectively known as the Mexican Cession.  To this day, Mexicans are acutely aware and most Americans utterly clueless about the irony when jingoes complain about “all these damn Mexicans sneaking into our country.” <div class="dkimg-c"><img src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/138127/large/James_Knox_Polk_by_GPA_Healy__1858.jpg?1428816031" alt="" width="550" height="725" /> <div class="dkimg-cap">President James K. Polk: They Can't Stop Us So Let's Just Take It</div> </div> President Theodore Roosevelt added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, telling the world that if there is any problem in the region the United States will handle it.  Newspaper cartoons at the time portrayed Uncle Sam in a policeman’s uniform straddling the Caribbean and Central America.  TR summed up this approach by declaring, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Freudians in the newly emerging field of psychoanalysis quickly concluded that this guy had serious issues. <div class="dkimg-c"><img src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/138128/large/Roosevelt_monroe_Doctrine_cartoon.jpg?1428816420" alt="" width="390" height="429" /> <div class="dkimg-cap">President Theodore Roosevelt: My Stick Is Bigger Than Yours</div> </div> Teddy’s successor, President William Howard Taft, preferred “Dollar Diplomacy,” blatant economic imperialism that encouraged American investors to thoroughly penetrate Latin American economies so the United States could control the government without the expense and international embarrassment of having to use troops.  Taft, tipping the scales at way over 300 pounds, reportedly remarked, “It’s the least I can do, I love Mexican food.” <div class="dkimg-c"><img src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/138130/large/WmHTaft.jpg?1428816771" alt="" width="550" height="734" /> <div class="dkimg-cap">President William Howard Taft: His Favorite Was Arroz Con Pollo</div> </div> President Woodrow Wilson intervened disastrously in the Mexican Revolution, surmising that American troops storming ashore at Veracruz would be welcomed as liberators.  He declared, “I’m going to teach the South Americans to elect good men…,” failing to understand that Mexico is not even in South America and thoroughly embarrassing the History Department at Princeton. President Herbert Hoover’s State Department issued the Clark Memorandum deliberately abrogating the Roosevelt Corollary.  Thus was born the Good Neighbor Policy whereby the United States promised to stop intervening in Latin America at the drop of a hat.  Hoover’s public relations skills ensured that the new approach would forever be associated with the next President, Franklin Roosevelt. In the thirties, United States officials attended Pan American summits and promised Latin Americans economic cooperation and aid for development.  During World War II the entire region lined up behind the United States like ducks on a pond with the exception of Argentina.  Some diplomats at the time surmised that President Juan Perón loved watching Evita attempting to goose step in high heels. In the late forties and fifties, the United States threw itself into the Cold War and focused its foreign policy almost entirely on Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.  Finally, Latin Americans realized they had been lied to.  Hardly anyone noticed how angry the people were down there until Vice President Nixon embarked upon a “goodwill” trip.  The dictators tried to welcome him but the masses turned out to spit, heckle, protest and kill him if they could get close enough. President Eisenhower, probably with some ambivalence, put Army units on alert in case they were needed to get the Veep out alive.  It was rumored at the time that Nixon fled incognito dressed in drag as Carmen Miranda. <div class="dkimg-l"><img src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/138134/small/Gangs_all_here_trailer.jpg?1428818860" alt="" width="220" height="300" /> <div class="dkimg-cap">Carmen Miranda: Or Is It Nixon?</div> </div> Ike freaked out over Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution and John Kennedy proceeded along the same lines, understanding that no one in America could be elected dog catcher without frantic conniptions at the mere mention of communism.  The Bay of Pigs invasion failed miserably and President Kennedy railed about the incompetence of the CIA telling himself, I’m the President, what can they possibly do to me? JFK did institute the Alliance for Progress, a massive 80 billion dollar economic aid program… kind of like a Marshall Plan for Latin America.  But the Alliance floundered and flopped. The dictators refused to allow fundamental changes such as land reform and crop diversification, and they used the money for their own purposes building soccer stadiums and elaborate police barracks and printing teeshirts reading, NICARAGUA IS FOR LOVERS!  President Johnson curtailed funds for the Alliance for Progress and reportedly told critics, “Who cares, there’s no Vietcong in Brazil.” President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had no sympathy for the indigenous movements rising up in Latin America against the oppressive pro-American right-wing dictators.  When the citizens of Chile democratically elected leftist President Salvador Allende, Nixon approved a coup by conservative Chilean generals that resulted in Allende’s murder.  To this day, Kissinger refuses to admit culpability and covers his ears when critics chant, “Liar. Liar. Pants on Fire.” President Gerald Ford was not sure where Latin America was located. President Jimmy Carter pontificated about “human rights” and threatened to cut American aid to dictators who continued to resist the spread of democracy.  The revolution in El Salvador proved it was all just talk, and the United States provided assistance to the side that assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero and raped and murdered nuns.  When an aide asked for a few minutes to discuss Latin American policy during the lead up to the Camp David Accords, Carter reportedly replied, “Not now, I’m trying to do something important.” <div class="dkimg-r"><img src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/138137/small/Mural_Oscar_Romero_UES.jpg?1428820053" alt="" width="250" height="333" /> <div class="dkimg-cap">Archbishop Óscar Romero: A True Martyr For Justice and Peace</div> </div> After the debacles of Vietnam and Watergate, the United States really needed something to feel good about. President Ronald Reagan’s easy butt-kicking of the left leaning government on the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada served just such a purpose, and a lot of Republican jingoes beat their chests like they had just won a homecoming football game.   Reagan was outraged when a majority of Congress, realizing America’s proxy war in Nicaragua was destroying that country, prohibited further aid to the anti-communist Contras.  The Constitution busting Iran-Contra Affair was an attempt to sneak around that and, when asked if he knew anything about it, Reagan reportedly replied, “I drink my milk with a spoon.” President George H. W. Bush used military force to oust the corrupt dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega, who was trafficking drugs into the United States.  A panicked Noriega took refuge in the Vatican’s Panamanian Embassy whereupon US troops surrounded the compound and tried to smoke him out by blasting heavy metal music.  Supposedly, Noriega held out for as long as he could and only surrendered when the soldiers switched to Barry Manilow songs. President Bill Clinton pushed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) through Congress, having no idea that in 2016 his wife would have a terrible time trying to explain that one to American factory workers.  Other events took his focus off Latin America, which was ironic because Monica Lewinski’s famous blue dress has been said to have been sewn together in a sweat shop in Rio de Janeiro. President George W. Bush did not show much interest in Latin America once he was assured by the CIA that neither Paraguay nor Uruguay were attempting to develop weapons of mass destruction. <div class="dkimg-l"><img src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/138133/small/Five_presidents.jpg?1428817797" alt="" width="250" height="167" /> <div class="dkimg-cap">None Of Them Came Close To Making Latin America A Priority</div> </div> President Barack Obama addressed the challenge of illegal immigration on our southern border by proposing an immigration policy overhaul that includes a sensible and fair path to citizenship for those in the country illegally.  But because so many conservative Republican bigots are apoplectic about new immigrants moving into their Leave It To Beaver neighborhoods, serious discussion on that issue remains in limbo in the black hole that is Congress. Obama has reached out to Cuba to normalize relations.  The more than fifty year embargo of that island has failed utterly to bring about regime change.  All it has done is hurt the Cuban people and prevent American investors from making some serious cash down there.  Now comes a historic handshake with Cuban President Raúl Castro at the Summit of the Americas in Panama and a promise by both sides of further engagement to address differences.  Even Venezuela’s bellicose President Nicolás Maduro offered some conciliatory comments, possibly out of desperation because even his own official residence has now been impacted by his country’s chronic shortage of toilet paper. Unfortunately, before you get your hopes up for a genuine improvement in relations between the United States and Latin America, Senator Bob Corker may soon announce that, by his reading of the Constitution, the Senate has both the right and obligation to undermine President Obama’s legacy and sabotage any rapprochement between the United States and Cuba.  Then expect a letter penned by Senator Tom Cotton and signed by at least 47 Republican senators – most of whom accept campaign donations from American tobacco companies – to be sent directly to the Cuban President informing him that Congress and only Congress has the right to remove the embargo on Cuban cigars. Come on, when it comes to United States relations with Latin America over the last couple of centuries, you just have to laugh… because it hurts too much to cry. rss@dailykos.com (PeterBalesHistoryTales) Barack Obama BarackObama Bill Clinton BillClinton BobCorker Congress Cuba DwightEisenhower FidelCastro ForeignPolicy FranklinRoosevelt George W. Bush GeorgeHWBush GeorgeWBush GeraldFord HerbertHoover History Humor JamesMonroe JamesPolk JimmyCarter JohnKennedy JohnQuincyAdams LatinAmerica LyndonJohnson RaulCastro Recommended RichardNixon RonaldReagan Senate TheodoreRoosevelt TomCotton Venezuela White House WhiteHouse WilliamHowardTaft WoodrowWilson _1377152 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:06:31 +0000 The Fascist Socialist Muslim Kenyan President https://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/1/17/1358431/-The-Fascist-Socialist-Muslim-Kenyan-President by Walter Brasch Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), like many Americans, was upset that President Obama did not go to Paris to personally show his solidarity with France, and publicly mourn the 12 journalists and the four French citizens killed in terrorist attacks. Like many Americans, both liberal and conservative, Rep. Weber made his views publicly known. However, he crossed the line of decency when he tweeted, “Even Adolph Hitler thought it more important than Obama to get to Paris. (For all the wrong reasons.) Obama couldn’t do it for the right reasons.” The response to the tweet led Weber to issue a retraction and apology. “I now realize that the use of Hitler invokes pain and emotional trauma for those affected by the atrocities of the Holocaust and victims of anti-Semitism and hate,” he said in his official apology. As comparison attacks go, Weber’s was not the most offensive. Six years into Barack Obama’s eight-year presidency, others have directly linked him to Hitler. In Tea Party rallies, it isn’t unusual to find pictures of the President with a Hitler-like mustache. On uncountable messages and rants posted in social media or written for online and print media, the reactionary right wing call the President a dictator, a fascist, and a Nazi. When they’re not comparing the President to Hitler, they say he isn’t a citizen. Apparently, they believe Hawaii is a foreign country. They fail to recognize that his mother was a U.S. citizen, making Obama an American. They called for his birth certificate. And so he showed a birth announcement from a Hawaiian newspaper and a long-form birth certificate—which they promptly dismissed as fraudulent. But, the only fabrication was a fake Kenyan birth certificate, widely accepted by the right-wing but easily proven to be a fraud. Nevertheless, with flimsy evidence, they filed suits to get his election victories thrown out, claiming he was really born in Kenya. However, every court has thrown out the suits filed by the “birthers.” When not challenging his birth, they have called him a Muslim, stressing his middle name “Hussein” as evidence and slyly trying to tie him to the now-deceased Iraqi dictator. But, the right-wing, clinging to the flag and the Constitution, desecrate the former by not understanding the latter. Even if President Obama is a Muslim, he could be president. He could also be a Jew, a Hindi, a Heathen, or an atheist. The Constitution specifically allows anyone who is an American citizen, over the age of 35, and who lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years to be president. A person’s religion—or lack of one—has no basis to deny a person the Constitutional right of the presidency. Many, with no proof other than what they hear on right-wing talk radio, have called him an Arab, stupidly believing that the worst thing is to be an Arab Muslim born in Kenya. Believing that also deflects criticism that they are attacking the President for being Black. Even being an Arab Muslim Kenyan dictator isn’t good enough. And so, they dig into the Cold War era, toss in “Commie” and “Pinko,” and then sprinkle it with “socialist.” Of course, that would make him the only Muslim socialist in the world, a distinction so ludicrous that would bring tears of laughter to the terrorists of al-Qaeda and ISIS. When not attacking the President, the right-wing attacks liberals, who are believed to be the earthly incarnation of the Devil. To the extreme right-wing, liberals are DemocRATS, DIMocrats, and libtards. The left-wing merely shakes their heads at such juvenile terminology. President Obama and his party aren’t the only ones who have been attacked in history. During the first decades after the Revolutionary War, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists were vicious in their attacks upon each other. “If ever a nation was debauched by a man, the American nation has been debauched by Washington,” wrote Benjamin Franklin Bache editor of the widely-read Aurora. In retaliation, Federalists destroyed the Aurora office and beat Bache, Franklin’s grandson. The Federalists, uniting behind Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, and the Anti-Federalists, uniting behind Thomas Jefferson, spewed lies and hate, often through newspapers. The 1828 presidential election put incumbent John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson.  Mudslinging by supporters of each candidate continued to drag the four-decade old country into a deeper campaign war of name-calling and personalities rather than ideas. Abraham Lincoln—another tall skinny president—was called a monkey, and portrayed in numerous editorial cartoons as an ape. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born into a WASP culture, was demonized as a “secret Jew,” with his critics emphasizing his name as “Roo-sevelt.” Protestant candidates vilified Catholic opponents; Catholics maligned Protestants. And everyone despised the Jews and other minorities. The hatred and disrespect shown by the Tea Party wing of the Republican party may not be unique or unusual. But it emphasizes that when you can’t argue on principles and policies, you resort to name calling. [Dr. Brasch is an award-winning social issues journalist and the author of 20 books. His current book is Fracking Pennsylvania, an in-depth look at the effects of horizontal fracturing throughout the country.] rss@dailykos.com (brasch) AbrahamaLincoln AdolphHitler AlexanderHamilton AndrewJackson Barack Obama BarackObama Constitution GeorgeWashington JohnQuincyAdams name-calling racialhatred ReligiousHate Republicans Right Wing RightWing Tea Party TeaParty ThomasJefferson _1358431 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:48:26 +0000 Jim DeMint should watch John Quincy Adams speech in Amistad https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/4/9/1290943/-Jim-DeMint-should-watch-John-Quincy-Adams-speech-in-Amistad The other day, Hunter noted Fox News pundit <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/08/1290595/-Another-Fox-News-pundit-pines-for-fake-TV-version-of-America">Todd Starnes' latest attempt to argue that Hollywood is destroying American values</a>. Then I perused the front page, and it's hard not to miss that the South and Republicans are, well, different than the rest of us. There was TomP's <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/09/1290777/-Republican-States-Rejection-of-Medicaid-Expansion-Is-Almost-Awesome-in-its-Evilness">Republican States' Rejection of Medicaid Expansion Is "Almost Awesome in its Evilness"</a>; Jim Demint(ed) trying to argue that <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/09/1290818/-Jim-DeMint-grumbles-that-big-government-didn-t-free-the-slaves">emancipation was not the result of action by big governmen</a>t; poopdogcomedy's <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/10/1290863/-TX-Gov-Abbott-R-Advisor-Charles-Murray-No-evidence-that-women-are-significant-thinkers">TX-Gov: Abbott (R) Advisor Charles Murray, "No evidence that women are significant thinkers"</a> And Meteor Blades posted a really incredible <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/08/1290541/-Chart-s-of-the-Day-Executions">map showing where executions in the US have occurred since 1977</a>. Then I sat down to finish watching the movie, Amistad. rss@dailykos.com (NBBooks) Amistad AnthonyHopkins CULTURALWARFARE JohnQuincyAdams Oligarchy Republic Slavery _1290943 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 05:46:48 +0000 1828 - ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/8/14/1214117/-1828-ALLS-WELL-THAT-ENDS-WELL I mentioned earlier in these essays on the election of 1828 that it was the first million dollar campaign for President in American history, and the first campaign in which the jackass was used as the symbol of the Democratic Party (above, “Jackass Jackson”). But thanks to the elimination of many limits on male suffrage, it was also the first time the public (or half of it) became an active participant in the selection of their chief executive. Voter turn out in 1824 had been about 357,000. In 1828 it would nearly triple,  to over one million (being still fewer than 6 in 10 eligible voters). And this growth spurt was adroitly exploited by Jackson's campaign manager, Martin Van Buren. Eight years hence, in 1836, when Van Buren ran for President himself, it would be “The Red Fox of Kinderhook” who would popularized the use of “OK” in English (“Old Kinderhook”). So it should come as no surprise Van Buren also played a part in naming the mass of average voters he manipulated in 1828. rss@dailykos.com (KAMuston) 1828 AndrewJackson ElectionResults History JohnQPublic JohnQuincyAdams Politics VoterRights _1214117 Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:00:13 +0000 1828 - AN ENDING https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/8/18/1214116/-1828-AN-ENDING I can imagine what it was like to wake up every morning as a slave. Can you? Each dawn mocked you with a false promise of hope. Every evening, your future died again in darkness. Should your gaze fall upon your children you could not help but wonder if this day they would be sold away, because “masa'” lost a bet, or wanted to buy his child a present. Modern apologists for slavery may want to believe beatings were uncommon. But we know from personal letters by her master that for 30 years a woman named Betty was Rachel Jackson's personal slave, and that in the General's words, she “must be ruled with the cowhide” - meaning she was periodically whipped. What kind of a woman was this white slave master, Rachel Jackson, who could live every day with an intimate, and then coldly countenance her being beating? rss@dailykos.com (KAMuston) 1828 AndrewJackson GeorgeWashingtonAdams History JohnQuincyAdams LyconiaJackson Politics Rachel Jackson RachelJackson Slavery _1214116 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:00:11 +0000 1928 - A PUNCH IN THE NOSE https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/7/3/1211256/-1928-A-PUNCH-IN-THE-NOSE I am still angry with John Quincy Adams (above). Yes, he has been dead for 164 years, perhaps the only man to have died in the offices of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. But whenever I think about what he did not do, I want to go back to 1828, and just slap him. Its not that he was without honor. He remains the only President who left the White House and then served 18 years in Congress. And the current craze for large expensive Presidential libraries began with the modest one built in his honor, by his son Francis. But then, I guess Francis felt the need to honor his father, since he was partly responsible for John Q. being a one term President. Not that Charles was to blame, but he was responsible. John Quincy Adams was the Adams to blame for his abbreviated Presidency. rss@dailykos.com (KAMuston) 1828 AndrewJackson campaignsmears History JohnQuincyAdams Politics _1211256 Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:00:10 +0000 1828 - DEAL WITH THE DEVIL https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/6/12/1210497/-1828-DEAL-WITH-THE-DEVIL I know we like to think our nation was founded by political geniuses armed only with the best of intentions. But the truth is, if the vast majority of the founding fathers were to somehow magically reappear in today's political arena, they would probably be most comfortable as members of the Klu Klux Klan – being by current definition both sexists and white supremacists. Under the first constitution for South Carolina (signed in 1778) Catholics were not allowed to vote. Delaware's first constitution denied the vote to Jews, and Maryland did not permit the sons of Abraham to cast a ballot until 1828. And, of course, women and both sexes of African-American descent either were or would shortly be arrested if they tried to cast a ballot anywhere in America. But the most fundamental bigotry in America was and is not racial or religious. It is monetary. The most hated, despised and disenfranchised group in America has always been anyone who was “not rich”. rss@dailykos.com (KAMuston) 1828 AndrewJackson Democratic Party DemocraticParty History JohnQuincyAdams MartinVanBuren Politics _1210497 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:00:09 +0000 All Hallows by the Tower – with an American connection https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/3/5/1191402/-All-Hallows-by-the-Tower-with-an-American-connection <a href="http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag111/airshowconsultants/all-hallows-by-the-tower1_zpsaefe926b.jpg"><img src="http://i1301.photobucket.com/albums/ag111/airshowconsultants/all-hallows-by-the-tower1_zpsaefe926b.jpg" /></a> rss@dailykos.com (shortfinals) All-Hallows-By-The-Tower Church GreatFireofLondon History JohnQuincyAdams London SamuelPepys SirChristopherWren Teaching TowerofLondon WillamPenn _1191402 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:37:32 +0000 Everything I Know About the Founding Fathers I Learned from Republicans https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/7/4/991288/-Everything-I-Know-About-the-Founding-Fathers-I-Learned-from-Republicans Every Fourth of July, we Americans celebrate our independence and pause to reflect on the enduring wisdom of our Founding Fathers who envisioned the cherished liberties we so often take for granted.  But this year, the commemoration is tinged with sadness as evidence mounts that Americans don't know their own history.  While a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303714704576385370840592218.html">new study</a> showed that only 35% of fourth-graders knew the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, a <a href="http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/US100617/July%204th_summer%20vacation/Country_From_Which_US_Declared_Independence.htm">Marist poll</a> found that 26% of us couldn't identify the country from which the United States announced its separation. In the telling of Republican White House hopeful <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/education/2011/06/21/249432/rick-santorum-education-leftist-plot/">Rick Santorum</a>, it's all liberals' fault.  "This is, in my opinion, a conscious effort on the part of the left," Santorum explained, "to desensitize America to what American values are so they are more pliable to the new values that they would like to impose on America." Which is why everything I know about the Founding Fathers I learned from the GOP. rss@dailykos.com (Jon Perr) Affordable Care Act AffordableCareAct Constitution DavidBarton DeclarationofIndependence FoundingFathers FourthofJuly Framers GeorgeWashington Glenn Beck GlennBeck Health Care HealthCare hermancain IndependenceDay JamesMadison John Adams JohnAdams JohnQuincyAdams July 4th July4th Michele Bachmann MicheleBachmann Mitt Romney MittRomney Newt Gingrich NewtGingrich NPR PaulBroun Recommended ReligiousTest Rick Perry RickPerry RickSantorum Ron Paul RonPaul Sarah Palin SarahPalin SeparationofChurchandState Social Security SocialSecurity ThomasJefferson _991288 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:26:01 +0000 Bachmann's Minions Edit Wikipedia https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/6/28/989511/-Bachmann-s-Minions-Edit-Wikipedia I guess it's not just the women themselves who are identical twins; looks like their supporters might as well be separated at birth as well. <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/02/981563/-UPDATE-x2:-Oh-Dear-Lord-Palin-mangles-Paul-Revere">Remember Sarah Palin's little Paul Revere gaffe a couple of weeks ago?</a> And remember how her brain-dead supporters decided that the best way to "correct" the situation was to simply <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20069360-10391715.html">edit the Wikipedia entry for Paul Revere</a> in order to "make" Palin's mangled telling of his ride "correct"? <a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/06/28/michelle-bachmann-supporters-alter-wikipedia-to-make-john-quincy-adams-a-founding-father/">Well, guess what?</a> rss@dailykos.com (Brainwrap) 1984 JohnQuincyAdams memoryhole Michele Bachmann MicheleBachmann PaulRevere Recommended Sarah Palin SarahPalin Wikipedia _989511 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:53:01 +0000 Michele Bachmann Flunks History Exam on GMA, Defends Her Failing Grade https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/6/28/989377/-Michele-Bachmann-Flunks-History-Exam-on-GMA-Defends-Her-Failing-Grade Good Lord. My brain hurts, not only from Bachmann's ignorance, but from having to be subjected to politicians intent on making U.S. history who have no actual understanding of it. This from <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57907.html">Politico</a>: <blockquote>Michele Bachmann got into another history-related tussle on ABC's "Good Morning America" today, standing by a statement she made praising the founding fathers for having "worked tirelessly to end slavery." ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Bachmann to defend that comment, given the fact that the U.S. founders helped enshrine slavery in the Constitution and allowed it to continue as an institution until the Civil War. </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (David Harris Gershon) GoodMorningAmerica Idiocy ignoranceofamericanhistory JohnQuincyAdams Michele Bachmann MicheleBachmann Slavery _989377 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:42:59 +0000 UPDATE: At least 8 Presidents WEREN'T BORN IN THE UNITED STATES!! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/4/29/971431/-UPDATE-At-least-8-Presidents-WEREN-T-BORN-IN-THE-UNITED-STATES So, the latest idiocy I'm hearing from the goalpost-moving birther morons is that, now that it's been established (for the 3,000th time) that Obama was, indeed, born in Hawaii, that somehow he still isn't eligible because his father wasn't born in the U.S. Well, it occurred to me that the same can be said of several other Presidents--namely, the first batch of them, none of whose parents were U.S. Citizens when their son was born, seeing how there was no United States of America when they were born. But then I realized the chilling, and no doubt history-changing truth: The same is true OF THOSE SAME PRESIDENTS! rss@dailykos.com (Brainwrap) AndrewJackson Arnold!! Barack Obama BarackObama Birthers GeorgeWashington JamesMadison JamesMonroe John Adams JohnAdams JohnQuincyAdams MartinVanBuren Snark ThomasJefferson WilliamHenryHarrison ZacharyTaylor _971431 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:08:02 +0000 The Care, Feeding, and Reproduction of the American Election, part 12 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/4/22/969250/-The-Care-Feeding-and-Reproduction-of-the-American-Election-part-12 This is a surprisingly short section at the moment, given the subject. rss@dailykos.com (Ponder Stibbons) Al Franken AlFranken AndrewJackson AndrewJohnson BenjaminHarrison California CalvinCoolidge Congress DwightEisenhower Elections FranklinRoosevelt GeorgeWashington GroverCleveland JamesCox JohnQuincyAdams JohnTyler Mexican-AmericanWar New York NewYork Norm Coleman NormColeman Ohio PaulWellstone Presidency RichardNixon RobertKennedy RutherfordHayes SecretService ThomasMarshall UlyssesGrant WalterMondale WarrenHarding WHIG WilliamHenryHarrison WilliamTaft WoodrowWilson WorldWar2 ZacharyTaylor _969250 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:13:43 +0000 The Care, Feeding, and Reproduction of the American Election https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/4/18/968110/-The-Care-Feeding-and-Reproduction-of-the-American-Election The Vice Presidency! This section's a bit slim, but just enough for a posting, I think. rss@dailykos.com (Ponder Stibbons) Alabama AndrewJackson Arizona BarryGoldwater CokieStevenson Elections FDR GeorgeClinton Georgia HarryTruman HenryWallace HubertHumphrey JamesMadison JFK John C. Calhoun JohnCCalhoun JohnConnally JohnNanceGarner JohnQuincyAdams JohnTower Louisiana LyndonJohnson MarkTwain Maryland Mississippi ProgressiveParty SamRayburn Senate SouthCarolina SpiroAgnew Texas TheodoreRoosevelt ThomasJefferson Vice President VicePresident WalterMiller WilliamMcKinley _968110 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:19:20 +0000 The New U.S. Emigration Policy. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/8/918853/-The-New-U-S-Emigration-Policy Warning:  This is another (quite hurried) semi-Historio-rant-screed by the long time lurker Aurelius.  Proceed at your own risk. Unbelieveable !  Just when Pub. Verg. Aurelius was about to go back to another multi-year extended period of lurking at Dkos, we get another meta-spat.  One diarist posts timely expatriate and emigration information for those in the community and the country, who are considering it.  The response by commentors and response diarists is swift.  "We must stay and fight", they say.  We then turn the circular firing squad on ourselves.   rss@dailykos.com (Publius Vergilius Aurelius) EMK FDR HabitatforHumanity HenryDavidThoreau JCWP JFK JimmyCarter JohnQuincyAdams MagnaCarta RFK SirEdwardCoke SirFrancisBacon StephenLangton Steve King SteveKing ThomasJefferson W.E.B. DuBois W.E.BDuBois WmBlackstone _918853 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:46:36 +0000 Replacing Stevens... https://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/12/856576/-Replacing-Stevens Things were a lot simpler back in the old days, when President Wilson could put a man on the Supreme Court in order to get rid of him. More below.... rss@dailykos.com (notwisconsin) Barack Obama BarackObama HarrietMeirs JohnQuincyAdams Supreme Court SupremeCourt _856576 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:34:01 +0000 Barack Obama and John Quincy Adams https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/8/790830/-Barack-Obama-and-John-Quincy-Adams Which President spoke seven languages and was later called Old Man Eloquent? Like Obama, President JQ Adams was opposed by violent men who put private property above all else Obama resembles John Quincy Adams; similarly intellectual and a better speaker, more charismatic. Our 6th President and hero of the movie Amistad was a man of principle, but his efforts on behalf of slaves, Indians and public education were thwarted by the macho culture of 19th century white America, a culture that remains very strong today. The House of Representatives decided the 1824 Presidential election since no candidate won a majority of electoral votes. They chose Adams as president, although General Andrew Jackson, the macho Indian killer on our $20 bill, had more popular and electoral votes. Henry Clay, another Presidential candidate and speaker of the House, helped JQ into the White House, preferring him to the unruly Jackson. JQ tried to govern by consensus- this had worked for his predecessor James Monroe. rss@dailykos.com (maracucho) AndrewJackson Indianremoval JohnQuincyAdams Secession slaveownerPresidents Slavery _790830 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:58:02 +0000 Of Rufus King and Mitt Romney https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/7/728858/-Of-Rufus-King-and-Mitt-Romney In 1816, James Monroe defeated Rufus King, the last Federalist party candidate for President, and ushered in the Era of Good Feelings. rss@dailykos.com (JFCooper) EraofGoodFeelings JamesMonroe JohnQuincyAdams Media Mitt Romney MittRomney Obama RufusKing _728858 Thu, 07 May 2009 18:10:59 +0000 The Inaugural Address, Part 1 (Updated) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/4/676916/-The-Inaugural-Address-Part-1-Updated This diary series is an examination of presidential inaugural addresses. Because of the broad scope of the diary, I will publish it in five parts: 1) Beginnings and Antebellum, 2) Lincoln and Reconstruction, 3) Progressivism to Depression and FDR, 4) Cold War and Conservatism, and 5) Summary and Speculation. I hope you will read them all. I confess I have an unabashed enthusiasm for President-Elect Barack Obama's oratorical powers. I wrote about them in my diary a few weeks ago called <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/5/17156/4149/731/669482">Speechifying: Analyzing Obama's Oratory</a>. (I refer you to that diary for links to any speeches by Obama that I may reference here.) Accordingly, I will speculate upon Obama's upcoming inaugural address in Part 5. Bartleby.com has compiled all of the inaugural addresses at <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/124/">this link</a>. Bartleby also includes an introduction for each address. Unless otherwise linked, Bartleby is my source for all inaugural addresses cited. I do not apologize for the length of this diary. The subject is large and demands space. However, I do apologize in advance for my limited skills as a writer. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy it. rss@dailykos.com (Dragon5616) AndrewJackson Barack Obama BarackObama FranklinPierce GeorgeWashington InauguralAddress Inauguration JamesBuchanan JamesKPolk JamesMadison JamesMonroe John Adams JohnAdams JohnQuincyAdams MartinVanBuren presidents Rescued Teaching ThomasJefferson WilliamHenryHarrison ZacharyTaylor _676916 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:44:25 +0000 John Q. and George W.; Joseph Wheelan on John Quincy Adams, and what his life shows us today. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/15/552012/-John-Q-and-George-W-Joseph-Wheelan-on-John-Quincy-Adams-and-what-his-life-shows-us-today In January of this year, a new book by historian Joseph Wheelan, Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress, was released.  As one might surmise from the title, it focusses on the post-presidential life of America's sixth president, which, apart from two years from 1829 to 1931, was spent in the House of Representatives, ending with Adams' death in 1847 (in the Speaker's chambers, even).  Adams was, of course, the son of the more famous John Adams, the second president.  Both served only one term (and both declined to attend the inaugurations of their successors, the only men to do so).  The younger Adams is often skipped over in US history, serving mainly as a footnote to his father's career. Living as we do under the presidency of George Walker Bush, the son of George Herbert Walker Bush (one imagines that even Pops is reconsidering whether voting for junior was a good idea), this is perhaps an ideal time to look back on the career of America's other son of a president to hold that office (Benjamin Harrison will have to wait for another grandson to show up for his time in the spotlight).   rss@dailykos.com (colonelgreen) George W. Bush GeorgeWBush JohnQuincyAdams josephwheelan Politics _552012 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:51:31 +0000 We Need an Adams Memorial in Washington https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/1/501125/-We-Need-an-Adams-Memorial-in-Washington HBO's 7-part epic, "John Adams", concluded on April 20th.  After watching it in its entirety, I am now thoroughly convinced that John Adams - and his wife, Abigail, and son John Quincy Adams - deserve a memorial in Washington, DC, on the National Mall. rss@dailykos.com (Pragmaticus) AbigailAdams John Adams JohnAdams JohnQuincyAdams Memorial MonroeDoctrine Monument NationalMall President SecretaryofState Washington _501125 Thu, 01 May 2008 19:29:12 +0000 Debate the War - Part 2 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/10/453671/-Debate-the-War-Part-2 The response to yesterday’s post,<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/9/124043/1793/227/453349">"Debate the War,"</a> was sobering. Am I whistling in the dark hoping for a serious debate on the war in Iraq? I say, "Is there a John Quincy Adams in the House (or Senate)?" The sobering part was a comment from Snud with a link to an article by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stones, titled <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18349197/the_chicken_doves">"The Chicken Doves"</a>.  The first paragraph makes clear where he is going: <blockquote> Quietly, while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been inspiring Democrats everywhere with their rolling bitchfest, congressional superduo Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have completed one of the most awesome political collapses since Neville Chamberlain. At long last, the Democratic leaders of Congress have publicly surrendered on the Iraq War, just one year after being swept into power with a firm mandate to end it. </blockquote> rss@dailykos.com (Milos Janus Outlook) Barack Obama BarackObama Hillary Clinton HillaryClinton Iraq War IraqWar JohnQuincyAdams Slavery _453671 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:18:31 +0000 President Whose Dad was President Curtails Executive Power https://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/10/420440/-President-Whose-Dad-was-President-Curtails-Executive-Power No, not him. The Bush Administration's contributions to history can be summed up nicely with the Dick Cheney quote to Senator Leahy on the floor of the US Senate: <blockquote> "Go fuck yourself." </blockquote> I mean the other President who's Dad was President, John Quincy Adams. Movie fans will remember the role in the mostly historically accurate Spielberg movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/">Amistad</a>, in which Anthony Hopkins again makes you forget that he's Anthony Hopkins. After his presidency, Adams served in the US House of Representatives and was known as a friend of the Abolitionists. In one of his greatest scenes, Hopkins captures the intensity and genius of <a href="http://www.historycentral.com/amistad/amistad.html">former president Adams when he argued</a> for the defendants in the case of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_%281841%29">United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad</a>. rss@dailykos.com (supak) AmericanHistory ChecksAndBalances JohnQuincyAdams Rescued Slavery UnitaryExecutive War _420440 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:08:57 +0000 Edwards, Gore, and Losing Vice Presidential Candidates (w/Poll) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/28/285044/-Edwards-Gore-and-Losing-Vice-Presidential-Candidates-w-Poll I don't mean to rain on Senator John Edwards' announcement to run for the presidency in 2008.  He is an honorable and decent man.  And I respect and admire his many political skills.  As for his signature issue - poverty - nothing should be more urgent given the shame and disgrace we witnessed collectively as a nation last year during Hurricane Katrina.  That message of inclusiveness certainly <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116725461738460888-DKBN5q33LHyc29eGAxKupKab_YE_20070126.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top">resonates with many people  </a>. <blockquote> Those cheering on Mr. Edwards's antipoverty crusade include party strategist Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's campaign manager in his 2000 presidency bid.  Recalling Mr. Edwards's past emphasis on the "Two Americas" theme, she says: "In 2004, that message went largely unheard.  To his credit, he kept at it.  And Katrina demonstrated the validity of that message." </blockquote> But, what does history tell us about his chances of securing the nomination and winning the presidency in 2008? rss@dailykos.com (JekyllnHyde) 2008 elections 2008elections AlGore AndrewJackson BenjaminHarrison George W. Bush GeorgeWBush GroverCleveland John Edwards JohnEdwards JohnQuincyAdams President Primaries Rutherford B. Hayes RutherfordBHayes SamuelTilden Vice President VicePresident _285044 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:32:45 +0000 And Now, a Word from John Quincy Adams https://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/17/272161/-And-Now-a-Word-from-John-Quincy-Adams We have, as you know, had two presidents of the United States that were sons of previous presidents. Today's commander in chief has summoned America and mobilized her for a vast and indefinite war sprawling across all the nations of the earth.  He has called us forth with his "Freedom Agenda", to fight the "evil-doers" of the "Axis of Evil".  As the Unitary Executive he has found it his calling, and therefore ours, to plant "democracy" at gunpoint in the far corners of the earth, and says it promises us a brighter future. And now a word from John Quincy Adams. rss@dailykos.com (ActivistGuy) ForeignPolicy JohnQuincyAdams Liberty Patriotism _272161 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:45:26 +0000 Blogger Tags, Anonymity, American as Apple pie. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/11/217751/-Blogger-Tags-Anonymity-American-as-Apple-pie       I've been reading the dairies about Armando's outing, not a nice thing.  There is also the meme that is constantly floated that "those anonymous bloggers are always hiding behind their screen names".   And, that by hiding behind these names they are somehow invalid, their views the stuff of asylums.   What the attackers are doing, the outers, the critics are engaging in -- is nothing less than an assault on the grand tradition of American discourse.       Alexander Hamilton, considered the first of the conservatives, and founding father, is looked upon by the right wing as we look on Jefferson.   His Screen Name was Publius. rss@dailykos.com (Irishkorean) AlexanderHamilton Anonymity ArmandoLlorens BenjaminFranklin CatoInstitute GeorgeClinton georgekennan History Integrity JamesMadison JohnJay JohnQuincyAdams Meta Pseudonyms SamuelBryan _217751 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:24:55 +0000