{"id":4155,"date":"2012-01-18T12:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2012-01-18T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:00:18","slug":"andrew-jackson-newt-and-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4155","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Jackson, Newt and Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newt would devastate Barack Obama <\/strong>if they are ever in a forum where knowledge of history<\/strong> is a factor.\u00a0\u00a0 Barack Obama missed learning all that American History we learned as children – to the extent he learned things in Hawaii, undoubtedly he was taught by Hawaiin teachers who resent being part of the United States.<\/p>\n

I didn’t watch it, but I’ve heard a few clips of Newt getting standing ovations in South Carolina<\/strong> over the weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 He particularly stuck it to Ron Paul and his isolation by bringing up Andrew Jackson<\/strong> and how having been disfigured by a British Soldier at the age of 13, he had no problem fighting against the British in the war of 1812.\u00a0\u00a0 I suggested that he would bring up a historical Southern person to play on the regional sentiments of people in the South against those Yankees like Romney.<\/p>\n

That having been said, Newt got away with a whopper<\/strong>, knowing that nobody in the room knows history<\/span> – especially Ron Paul and people that work in TV.<\/p>\n

New Orleans<\/strong> became part of the United States in 1803<\/strong> as part of the Louisiana Purchase<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 During the War of 1812, the British seized New Orleans<\/strong> with the hope of cutting off river traffic in the Mississippi River and disrupting commerce and preventing the United States from using the river to move troops and supplies.\u00a0 Andrew Jackson led the troops that just devastated the British and regained control of the city (which happened actually after the war was officially over, but it took a long time for the order that the war was over to get from Washington DC to New Orleans).<\/p>\n

Ron Paul would have had no problem with the US Military fighting the British at New Orleans<\/strong> – that’s exactly the kind of thing Paul sees as the right role – the British had invaded US sovereign territory<\/span> and it was the Federal Government’s obligation to expel the invaders.<\/p>\n

If I can go so far as to put ideas into Ron Paul’s mouth, Ron Paul would have pointed out that the reason the United States got into the War of 1812<\/strong> to begin with was the United States invading\u00a0 Canada<\/strong><\/a> (then called British North America) and getting involved in taking sides (again) in the wars between England and France.<\/p>\n

If you were to ask “Which president would Ron Paul be most like<\/strong>?”, Andrew Jackson is the obvious choice.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 Andrew Jackson was a real outsider<\/span>.\u00a0 he was a “rube” from Tennessee who didn’t know how much he didn’t know.\u00a0\u00a0 One of his priorities was to dissolve the Second Bank of the United States<\/a><\/strong>, the Federal Reserve bank of its time.<\/p>\n

Jackson was a Democrat in the literal sense – he was an egalitarian<\/strong> who saw Government as a tool of rich people<\/span> to control the country and use its power to engorge their own profit.\u00a0 He wanted government to serve the common people, not the big industrialists and bankers of the NorthEast.<\/p>\n

Jacksonian Democracy<\/strong> would ultimately break apart the Democratic-Republican party (the Anti-Federalists) into the Democratic Party and the Whig Party (which would evolve into the Republican party), aligning the people of the South against the powerful economic interests of the NorthEast bankers and factory owners – laying the foundation for the Civil War.\u00a0 The fight over tariffs under Jackson began to build up the anti Federal sentiment.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ushistory.org\/us\/23f.asp
\nhttp:\/\/www.presidentprofiles.com\/Washington-Johnson\/Andrew-Jackson-Nullification.html<\/p>\n

Being so anti-establishment, Jackson quickly found that both parties did not want to follow his lead<\/span>, making him ineffective as President, as surely Ron Paul would face if he is elected.<\/p>\n

Much of what people dwell on about Jackson is his dislike of Native Americans and pushing them out to Oklahoma and fighting to “liberate” Florida from Spain.\u00a0\u00a0 In today’s PC world where Native Americans are revered as special spiritual people who are more in touch with God than other peoples, the actual history gets overlooked.\u00a0\u00a0 Jackson’s opinions about the Native Americans was based on his experiences with them – in his youth growing up in Tennessee and South Carolina, and the English and Spain had been cultivating the support of the Indian tribes to rebel against the United States and destabilize the country while England was trying to destroy the United States.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/01_39\/b3750017.htm<\/p>\n

Even though a number of tribes had fought with the United States in the War of 1812, ultimately he wanted them all moved out to Oklahoma against their will.<\/p>\n

[And yes, the world could survive without Wikipedia]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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