Always good to have some historical perspective. From Dick Polman up in Philadelphia:
The Founding Fathers actually wrote the book on how to brawl in
the streets. In the words of historian Edward Larson, “They could write like
angels and scheme like demons.” Consider the campaign of 1800 — when, for the
first time, two political parties skirmished for presidential power.
Thomas Jefferson looks
noble on the nickel in your pocket, but back in the day, he hired hatchet men
to do his dirty work. As the challenger in 1800, his goal was to topple the
incumbent. His critique of President John Adams included the accusation that he
was “a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and
firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
... Adams also did his
business through surrogates. Jefferson was described as “a mean-spirited,
low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia
mulatto father … raised wholly on hoe-cake (made of coarse-ground Southern
corn), bacon, and hominy, with an occasional change of fricasseed bullfrog. …”
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