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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (38420)	2/25/2005 6:30:17 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

"In the campaign that followed, the Federalists depicted Jefferson as a godless nonbeliever and a radical revolutionary; he was often called a Jacobin, after the most radical faction in France during the French Revolution. His election, it was charged, would bring about a reign of terror in the nation. The Republicans cast Adams as a monarchist and the Federalist Party as an enemy of republicanism, including the greater egalitarianism promised by the American Revolution. The level of personal attack by both parties knew no bounds. At one point, Adams was accused of plotting to have his son marry one of the daughters of King George III and thus establish a dynasty to unite Britain and the United States. The plot had been stopped, according to the story, only by the intervention of George Washington, who had dressed in his old Revolutionary War uniform to confront Adams with sword in hand. Jefferson, meanwhile, was accused of vivisection and of conducting bizarre ritualistic rites at Monticello, his home in Virginia. One of Adams's greatest foes in this election was Alexander Hamilton, a member of his own party. In October, Hamilton published a pamphlet in which he argued that Adams should not be reelected. He charged that the President was emotionally unstable, given to impulsive and irrational decisions, unable to coexist with his closest advisers, and generally unfit to be President. It is unlikely, however, that Hamilton's attack cost Adams any electoral votes." americanpresident.org ============ "I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit." --Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814. ME 14:46 "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day." --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224 "As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers." --Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806. ME 11:118 "Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819. ME 15:179 ============== A few lessons in things like AC and driving cars and these guys would be perfectly at home in the political climate of today.

To: JBTFD who wrote (38420)	2/25/2005 9:11:51 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

If you really feel like that you must be very popular. You go around criticizing your friends in the most incisive and public method you can think of. Let me guess, you tried to date your "best friend"'s girlfriend. If you would like to clarify your comment feel free, but that is they type of person you have portrayed yourself to be in the two posts you have made to me. You can believe whatever you want, just don't expect everyone else to accept it blindly. (like this administration apparently expects) That is an arrogant elitist comment. No other response is appropriate. It appears to me you would like to introduce intellectual tyranny as American. And any dissent as un-American. Well that is not gonna fly as freedom of conscience is at the essence of American liberties. "You appear to be shooting from the hip." Freedom of conscience is at the essence of American liberties. If you think that is shooting from the hip so be it,. Actually I found it to be off topic and insulting.