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Politics

Jackass Presidential Candidate

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Would you vote for president a candidate that uses foul language, says he’s against the big banks, and claims that the system is rigged against him?  Would you vote for such a brash, jackass of a candidate?

No? Well pull out your wallet and take a look at a $20 bill. Who do you see?

The seventh President of The United State, Andrew Jackson was all of the above.

When Jackson ran for President in 1824 he narrowly won the popular vote and the Electoral College  but in the Electoral College none of the candidates had a majority. The decision went to the House of Representatives who chose John Quincy Adams as the sixth President. Jackson and his supporters decried that the fix was in and it was rigged against him!  The Speaker of The House was Henry Clay, one of the other candidates for President.  Clay advocated for Adams.  After Adams was chosen, he appointed Clay as, wait for it, … Secretary of State!  This tit-for-tat was decried at the time as a “corrupt bargain”.

Jackson formed his own political party and won a landslide victory the next election cycle.

Jackson campaigned as a defender of the people when he shut down centralized banking.

Andrew Jackson was also known for saying brash things and peppering his speech with foul language.

When Andrew Jackson ran in 1828 under his newly formed political party many of his opponents openly called him a “Jackass“!

The party that he formed was the Democratic Party and the Jackass became and remains their symbol.

Philosophy, Politics

I Guess I’m Sexist

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President Obama was chastising men in his speech yesterday. He said that men need to get over their male dominance and bias, and vote for Hillybob. He opined, “I want every man out there who’s voting to kinda look inside yourself and ask yourself, if you’re having problems with this stuff, how much of it is that we’re just not used to it?”

Michael Moore, the communist film maker echoed a similar opinion, He said men need to give up the 10,000 years of control and let a woman lead.

“Just not used to it”?  10,000 years of only men running countries? Ummm, maybe I’m not much of a historian, but isn’t Angela Merkel running Germany? Wasn’t Margaret Thatcher the Prime Minister of The United Kingdom? Didn’t Golda Meir do a couple of piddly tasks in Israel?

Oh and what about in the 1400s, wasn’t there a young woman named Joan of Arc who led the French Army to victory over the invading English?

As the ‘Most Enlightened Man In The World’, doesn’t President Obama recognize the leadership of women throughout history?  Why is that not considered sexist?  Has he never thought, folks don’t want to vote for Hillybob because of what she’s done (and not done) and what she stands for, and not the fact that she has ovaries?

I guess we Neanderthals would never let the RIGHT woman lead a country.  Now back to my beer and scratching my crotch.  What channel is NASCAR on?

Business, Politics

An Immigrant’s View Of The Presidential Election

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I had my hair cut at a barbershop owned and run by “Jane” (not her real name), a Vietnamese woman. During my haircut we got on the subject of the Presidential Election. Jane said that she is voting for “Trump“.

She told me that she would not vote for Hilary. When I asked her why that was, she said that, “Clinton just wants to get more money.  She’s in it for herself.”

Jane is an immigrant and refugee. She told me in her community a lot of people say to vote for “Clinton“. She said that we need a change.

Jane said that under “Obama” her business has suffered. She said that she used to have five people working for her cutting hair,  Now she works the business alone because, she said, that people don’t have the money for a $10 haircut.  She feels that “Clinton” wants the country stay on the same path that hurt her business and only wants to be president to “get money“.

Jane said that she now has medical coverage under Obamacare but here is what I found interesting. She said having Obamacare doesn’t matter in her choice for President. I believe her words were, “I have Obamacare.  I don’t care.  We need to think about OUR country“.

This is from someone who fled a communist takeover of her birth country, came to The United States, started a business, and most importantly, CHOSE to become a citizen, adopting this country as HER country.

There is a lot of wisdom in the phrase, “We need to think about our country“.