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Mon May-05-08 12:36 PM
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Why does our party still honor Jefferson-Jackson day with dinners, etc.? |
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I don't particularly like either of those presidents or what they stood for. They were racist and approved of genocide. Why are we still holding Jefferson-Jackson dinners? :shrug:
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Mon May-05-08 12:40 PM
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Shall we do away with honoring our founding fathers too?
Anyway, that's not their defining qualities.
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Mon May-05-08 12:45 PM
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2. Response to Republican Lincoln Day Dinners...although, most |
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of the current GOP wouldn't recognize Lincoln's platform as having any relation to their own.
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ashling
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Mon May-05-08 01:19 PM
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5. Been around longer than that |
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in fact, they used to have Jefferson Day Dinners during Jackson's presidency.
However, perhaps you should put something into a resolution and have it presented at the convention or at least at your county level executive committee.
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Mon May-05-08 01:24 PM
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6. Thanks, Ashling...I was offering conjecture rather than history. I didn't know it predated Lincoln |
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Mon May-05-08 01:06 PM
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3. The DFL changed it to Hubert Humphrey Day not long after HHH died |
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On the bright side a dinner named after Jefferson & Jackson, for all their many faults, is preferable to the Prescott Bush Dinner that the Connecticut Republican's hold every year. I can't quite get over naming a party's annual dinner after a man who committed treason first by plotting to overthrow the government and then by trading with the enemy.
True, Jefferson did commit treason, but it's not like the Conservative Party in Great Britain is naming any dinners after him. By U.S. standards Jefferson is a patriot - Prescott can only be called patriot if you happen to loyal to the 3rd Reich.
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Mon May-05-08 01:18 PM
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I enjoyed the dinners. Thomas Jefferson is my favorite President. He's also the founding father of our party and country.
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ashling
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Mon May-05-08 01:25 PM
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7. How about a Peace Dinner |
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I think our party could get together around that concept
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Tue May-06-08 02:27 AM
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8. Jefferson argued strongly for the separation of Church and State. |
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That is a legacy we should be grateful for.
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Tue May-06-08 03:09 AM
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9. Both have good reasons |
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Jefferson because, as much as he was a man of his time, was also in many respects far ahead of his own time.
Jackson gets it because he's the stubborn cuss who founded the party just as much as Lincoln was the first Republican president.
Still, would like if we had the FDR Dinner or something like that on equal standing.
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