Obama: "All right, guys. RAGING KEGGER at the White House!"

[Writer]

[gateley]

1. They've certainly earned it -- both sides. nt

[bluestateguy]

2. Like Andrew Jackson's inauguration in 1829

http://alcademics.typepad.com/.a/6a00e553b3da208834010536db5ecf970b-500wi

[Chulanowa]

3. When I think Jackson, I think government cheese

[mikekohr]

5. I think of the 4,000 Cherokee that starved and froze to death on the Trail of Tears

from website "International Brotherhood Days:" http://www.brotherhooddays.com



ANDREW JACKSON: As a general, he lead an army against the Creek people. Defeating the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, he ordered his soldiers to cut off the noses of the 557 dead Creek warriors to make easier the tallying of the dead. After removal of the noses of the Creek warriors, Jackson's troops skinned the bodies of the dead. The skins were tanned and made into trinkets, and souvenirs such as bridle reins. 6).

Defying the Supreme Court, as President, he forced the removal of the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. Nearly one in four, or over 4000 Cherokee perished on this death march. 31). 1). 12). 11).

The Choctaw fared better. Only one in seven perished, or approximately 2500 men, women and children. To add insult to injury the Choctaw were forced to pay the cost of, $5,097,367.50 for their own removal. Their land in Mississippi was sold for $8,095,614.89. The balance, $2,998,000.00, was kept by the US government. 71).

Jackson felt that conditions of the Cherokee removal, the "Trail of Tears," was so desirable that he noted, "How many thousands of our own people would gladly embrace the opportunity of removing to the West on such conditions?" 64). Let the record show that no U.S. citizen took Jackson up on his offer. http://www.brotherhooddays.com/HEROES.html#ANDREW JACKSON

mike kohr

[Chulanowa]

6. Well, I was trying to keep in the spirit of things

I had ancestors sitting at Dancing Rabbit Creek when that crazy motherfucker threatened us all with annihilation at the hands of the army if we didn't pack off to "Indian Territory"

But for the moment, I was trying to focus more on the "crazy motherfucker" in the Animal House vein, rather than the charnel house vein.

[dmr]

4. Seriously!

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