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| Jun 11th, 2004 11:43 AM | |||
| Cosmo Electrolux | I think you may be right, Sam...I'll have to dig up my Jackson Bio when I get home and see.... | ||
| Jun 11th, 2004 11:16 AM | |||
| sspadowsky | I thought that Jackson was actually wounded in a duel, very seriously, and survived. I had an American History teacher who told us that Jackson's campaign people used it as one of those "proof that God wants him to be President" things, or something like that. | ||
| Jun 11th, 2004 10:40 AM | |||
| Jeanette X |
The assassin had two derringer guns. The first one misfired at point blank range, and Jackson became enraged, and just as he was about to beat the crap out of him, the assassin whiped out the second gun and fired again. The second gun also misfired. Then Jackson started beating him over the head with his cane, knocking him to the ground. After the attack, Vice President Martin Van Buren began carrying guns with him whenever he went to the Senate. On an interesting side note, the odds of both guns misfiring was calculated by later historians to be one out of 125,000. Reagan didn't manage to dodge in time. He was shot in the chest. See for yourself: http://www.townhall.com/hall_of_fame/reagan/shot1.mov |
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| Jun 10th, 2004 03:24 PM | |||
| Cosmo Electrolux |
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| Jun 10th, 2004 02:20 PM | |||
| ScruU2wice |
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| Jun 10th, 2004 01:52 PM | |||
| Cosmo Electrolux | fuck them all...put some chick with a hot ass on the $10..... | ||
| Jun 10th, 2004 12:48 PM | |||
| Rez |
fuck this. hamilton's my favorite out of all the bastards on our money. THIS IS THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING WHAT YOU HOLD IN YOUR GRUBBY GODDAMN HANDS. THIS IS THE MAN WHO HELPED WRITE THE FUCKING FEDERALIST PAPERS, WITHOUT WHICH WE WOULD NOT BE A COUNTRY, FOR NEW YORK WERE STUBBORN FUCKS. FUCK ANDREW JACKSON AND HIS "BADASSERY" |
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| Jun 10th, 2004 12:44 PM | |||
| KevinTheOmnivore | Andrew Jackson was also a significant political figure in the shaping of our party system. Hamilton wasn't even American born, nor was he ever president (obviously due to the latter former fact). I'd have no problem replacing him with Reagan..... | ||
| Jun 10th, 2004 08:34 AM | |||
| Cosmo Electrolux |
didn't he beat the shit out of a potential assassin with his cane? Reagan couldn't have done that...big fucking wuss 
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| Jun 10th, 2004 08:10 AM | |||
| Sethomas | Asshole or not, it's surreal how badass Jackson was. | ||
| Jun 10th, 2004 08:05 AM | |||
| Cosmo Electrolux |
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| Jun 10th, 2004 07:52 AM | |||
| Sethomas | But of Canadians among United Arab Emirates, he's not all that special. :/ | ||
| Jun 10th, 2004 07:43 AM | |||
| Zebra 3 |
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| Jun 10th, 2004 12:07 AM | |||
| Jeanette X | Well, Andrew Jackson was responsible for the Trail of Tears, so I wouldn't mind seeing him removed from the $20. | ||
| Jun 9th, 2004 11:20 PM | |||
| AChimp |
When Trudeau died a few years ago, lots of people wanted to put him on our money. The $20, if I remember correctly, because a lot of people felt that the Queen was on enough of our currency and we were in the process of redesigning it already. After about a week, though, everyone stopped caring and we realized that our paper money is already covered in enough old wrinkly guys. We ended up renaming some mountain after him instead. Or a lake up north. I don't remember, because in the end, it didn't matter. 
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| Jun 9th, 2004 11:12 PM | |||
| Emu | Let's just replace all of the pictures on the dollar bills with pornography. | ||
| Jun 9th, 2004 10:39 PM | |||
| ScruU2wice |
Reagan the new face of the $10 bill? http://money.cnn.com/2004/06/08/news...agan_hamilton/ What a horrible idea... This is just another example of how impatient our society is. We can't even bare to wait a few years after Reagans death to start thinking about memorializing him. He wasn't an amazingly great president, but apparently he was good enough to boot of someone like hamilton or jackson...
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