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, 08:19, August 16, 2015The Jefferson-Jackson dinners
If comparing the Republican Congressional Caucus to Iranian mobs chanting “death to America” isn’t Obama’s scummiest move yet, it’s got be in the top ten.[http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/unreal-how-utterly-offensive-barack-obama-compares-republican-caucus-to-iranian-hardliners-video/] First of all, the “point” he was making about the Iranian government is moronic. No, Mr. President, totalitarian governments do not have hardline and moderate factions. They have dictators, and the dictator makes the decisions. Orwell explained how this works in ''1984''. The mobs are doing their “two minutes hate.” They are not an expression of factional rivalry. The regime needs enemies to survive, which is why these deals never work. Obama knows nothing about how the Iranian government works and cares less. Making the Republican/Iranian hardliner comparison is something he has been jonesing to do for months. Yes, nuclear war and the lives of millions are in the balance. But at least we have a chief executive who understands the need to focus on what’s important: Firing cheap shots at the Republicans. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 09:04, 6 August 2015 (EDT)
If comparing the Republican Congressional Caucus to Iranian mobs chanting “death to America” isn’t Obama’s scummiest move yet, it’s got be in the top ten.[http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/unreal-how-utterly-offensive-barack-obama-compares-republican-caucus-to-iranian-hardliners-video/] First of all, the “point” he was making about the Iranian government is moronic. No, Mr. President, totalitarian governments do not have hardline and moderate factions. They have dictators, and the dictator makes the decisions. Orwell explained how this works in ''1984''. The mobs are doing their “two minutes hate.” They are not an expression of factional rivalry. The regime needs enemies to survive, which is why these deals never work. Obama knows nothing about how the Iranian government works and cares less. Making the Republican/Iranian hardliner comparison is something he has been jonesing to do for months. Yes, nuclear war and the lives of millions are in the balance. But at least we have a chief executive who understands the need to focus on what’s important: Firing cheap shots at the Republicans. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 09:04, 6 August 2015 (EDT)
==The Jefferson-Jackson Dinners==
The Democrats are dropping the Jefferson-Jackson dinners they’ve held since 1945, to be replaced by dinners honoring Truman and "Leadership Blue."[http://article.wn.com/view/2015/07/24/out_jeffersonjackson_dinners_in_harry_truman_and_8216leaders_s/] What happens when they find out about Hiroshima, Korea, and the Cold War?
These dinners have an interesting motivation and history. When FDR was elected in 1932, the Democrats didn’t have any discernable ideology. One of our finest conservative presidents, Grover Cleveland, was a Democrat. In fact, the party had run a conservative for president as recently as 1924. The New Deal originated as a set of ''ad hoc'' emergency measures. When they seemed to work, FDR came up with the ideology of “liberalism” to justify them. Writers were commissioned to explain the new ideology to Americans. In fact, America had always been a liberal nation, or so these writers claimed. Why even Jefferson and Jackson were liberals! This is the origin of the Jefferson-Jackson iconography and the rationale for these dinners. It was always a silly argument. Jefferson’s signature policy was minimal federal government. Jackson was a gold bug who spent much of his political energy opposing paper money. (Roosevelt took us off the gold standard.) Modern historians consider Jackson to be the founder of the Democratic Party, not Jefferson. Nowadays Jackson is best known for mistreating Indians. (Ah, such a “liberal” he was.) [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 04:19, 16 August 2015 (EDT)