Comments on: 5 Nastiest U.S. Presidential Elections in History

By: syoppinby

syoppinby — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:16:08 +0000

Droppigin,

Absolutely correct on Lincoln; but speaking of political hacks, how’s the hopity changity thing workin out for you? All the Goldman Sachs guys and lobbyists in the cabinet, bailouts for anyone (as long as they are fortune 100), financial reforms that the financiers wrote and gives immunity to the SEC?

Corruption we can believe in.

By: Droppingin

Droppingin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:02:48 +0000

Lincoln’s second election was one of the sneakiest. He manipulated the laws to bend the vote in his favor, grossly.

He also was a typical bigot of the times. Yes, he abhorred slavery but thought the blacks were inferior to whites and did think it best if they left the US. He supported re-location and in fact help setup a black colony on island in S. Carolina. It was ill conceived, no support after the fact, and was a miserable failure.

I thought it was a sham that Obama had a celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. I guess he does not know his history or simply used it knowing that 99% of the US believe in the myth. BTW, I voted for Obama.

Lincoln kept the country together but the war he unwisely nudged forward at Sumpter. He had people jailed without trial or charges, suspended habeas corpus, and generally walked all over the constitution.

So sorry Lincoln fans, he was just another political hack.

By: dennis

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By: Cagemonkey

Cagemonkey — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:26:31 +0000

What year was it when the one guy slapped the other guy in the middle of the debate? I don’t remember their names, but the one guy walked across the stage and slapped the other guy. I heard he keyed his car another time.

By: teqjack

teqjack — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:34:11 +0000

I learned in school that in response to –
“Ma! Ma! Where’s pa?”
his supporters would respond –
“Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!”

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:29:07 +0000

1828! Don’t forget, that Jackson’s wife Rachel died 2 weeks after the election due to “unknown reasons”. Jackson forever blamed her death on Adams and all the stress caused by the stories told about her.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:49:15 +0000

Whichever 2008 US presidential candidates dresses up like Stephen Douglas will win my vote!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:40:14 +0000

1800: “You can imagine that things were a little tense in the White House in the months leading up to the election.”

Jefferson didn’t live there until 1801.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_house

By: Emily Littella

Emily Littella — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:49:11 +0000

Oh! Presidential Elections… never mind.

By: Jerse

Jerse — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:14:38 +0000

These dirty campaigns were mentioned on NPR today – I wonder if this article influenced the talk!

By: MadMolecule

MadMolecule — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:55:49 +0000

No Hayes vs. Tilden?

By: Tempscire

Tempscire — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:04:26 +0000

Hey, President Jackson, why the long face?

No, really, did he have a face like a Kerry caricature and the dollar bill portrait is meant to be more flattering? He does look more dashing on it.

By: Camille

Camille — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:58:35 +0000

Just last week my hairdresser was complaining about the nastiness in politics today (a conversation we’ve had several times). I keep telling her things used to be a lot worse, but she never seems to believe me. I’m going to print this out for her since I know she’ll get a kick out of it.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:36:42 +0000

DJ’s comment is excellent. Kudos!

By: ken

ken — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:56:43 +0000

I’d have to vote for the 1828 election — the opposition called Jackson’s wife a whore, and so on. Even today’s negative campaigns don’t go that far — “Joe Smith voted against a bill that would have provided free lunches to poor children. Also, his wife banged a ton of guys in college.”

As for the 1800 election, I mean, that paragraph proves that the “founding fathers” agreed that they didn’t like the King of England, but not much else. It weakens the argument those who today invoke the founding fathers almost like they shared one mind: “The founding fathers would support/oppose George W. Bush.”

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:25:57 +0000

I bet the Federalists would be so very upset to know that Jefferson was immortalized in 1936 as one of America’s great presidents on Mount Rushmore.

Probably about as upset as Jefferson would be to find out that his face is gracing a federal reserve note.

By: Allen

Allen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:59:18 +0000

Haha, I was scrolling through the post, and I read “… Lincoln vs Douglas, Cleveland vs Blaine, Hoover vs Smith, Puppy vs Robot” — funny post title sequence Puppy vs Robot – that’s a presidential race I want to see!