For the Democrats.. this will make you smile and so proud

[Peacetrain]

I have this on my refrigerator.. I just love it

Edit to add... I so hope we put a woman in this line-up next round..

[wyldwolf]

1. DINOS

[Peacetrain]

2. ROFL!

[IronLionZion]

29. Purge those DINOs, all of them!

[steve2470]

3. k&r nt

[BKH70041]

4. Where's Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, ...

... Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Cleveland?

And they should all be playing shuffleboard. More room, you know.

[Peacetrain]

6. Well you would have to ask the artist that..

[bigwillq]

5. Cool pic (nt)

[Peacetrain]

7. I love it..

I think I first saw it here in DU.. about 5 years ago.. or longer..

[RedSpartan]

17. The original one without Obama is on the wall in the background.

[Douglas Carpenter]

8. when the role is called up yonder..

[Peacetrain]

9. Yep...

When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there.. and one proud old Democrat.. let me tell ya

[world wide wally]

10. Why can't I picture the Republican version of this with Hoover, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II?

I didn't want to embarrass Eisenhower.

[Douglas Carpenter]

11. knr - although I have some reservations about everyone around that table - it is a great picture

[Odin2005]

12. Fuck Jackson, he was a monster. And Wilson was a racist POS.

[First Speaker]

14. And Jefferson--who isn't pictured--was a slaveholder...

...and Truman incinerated over 100,000 people, LBJ destroyed Vietnam, Clinton and JFK were philanderers, Obama killed a lot of people with drones, FDR ordered the firebombing of Dresden, and on and on and on...history is a tragedy, not a melodrama.

[onethatcares]

15. ok, I'll grant you that

but a picture of the repubican heros would show nixon/bush I, reagan, bush II fucking the American people in the ass while laughing all the way to the bank.

[Odin2005]

16. But they did a lot of good things, too.

Not Jackson. He "ethnically cleansed" Native Americans and caused America's first economic depression.

[mimi85]

22. JFK wasn't exactly a saint.

But let's move on. They're all human and lived within their time. Time for us to let shit go. Yep, a woman would be great - as long as it's not HRC.

[Peacetrain]

46. Anything you like about any Democratic Presidents.. or just here to say

how BAD the Democrats are?? makes me want to go hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[msanthrope]

13. Purge candidates, all of 'em. nt

[Peacetrain]

21. ;)

Their work is cut out for them.. but they are giving it that old college try

[harris8]

18. I love it! Here's where to buy the full-size print:

Callin' the Red, by Andy Thomas

http://ashleyart.com/callin-the-red-by-andy-thomas-giclee-canvas-20-x-30/


On edit: oh yuck, he really did do one of Lincoln plus the Axis of Evil: "Callin' the Blue" (not bothering to post a link, for obvious reasons)

[Iliyah]

19. Nice picture tho

thanks, I want one!

[YOHABLO]

20. I would switch a few out: get rid of Jackson and Wilson. Maybe add Jefferson

[Algernon Moncrieff]

23. Andy Thomas. He's a very talented Western artist

...yes, there is a Republican analog to that painting. He also has pictures of Dem and Republican presidents playing poker. This work is another one every Dem should have:

[Peacetrain]

26. Thank you.. that is a great picture

He is a talented artist.. his ability to catch life in the facial expressions of his painting are amazing..

[Algernon Moncrieff]

30. That work is called "Change"

Part of the fun is picking out the audience members -- all of whom had a small or large role in history in making it ossible for an African American to become President. Sometimes, we lose sight of how amazing that is in historical context.

Non-political work by Thomas

[Peacetrain]

32. Look at those awesome expressions

If there is such a thing as re-incarnation.. I want to come back as someone who could do something like that.. a painting of such expression..

Yep you are so right.. it was monumental.. the change heard round the world.. for sure

[Duval]

27. Thanks for

the link.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

28. OK, I get it

The work is called "Change"

http://andythomas.com/search.aspx?find=change&log=false&category=1


Google "Andy Thomas Change" and many other fine art stores have it.

[1monster]

24. Is that Jackson in the foreground?

"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

Not someone I'd be proud to claim as a Democrat. Today, he'd probably be Tea Party.

[sabrina 1]

25. I hope that woman is someone like Barbara Lee ... a true Democrat and courageous enough

to stand alone when necessary, to cast the right vote.

[C Moon]

31. Love this!

[Donald Ian Rankin]

33. Note the absence of anyone pre 1912.

The modern Democratic party is in many ways the ideological heir of the Republican party, and vice versa.

[Voice for Peace]

34. making a guess.. this painting is illustrating all those presidents vs Jackson?

because he was a racist?

[Peacetrain]

37. Part of it I am sure.. or it could just be a history of Presidents..

Our party is the oldest political party .. and how far we have moved along the political spectrum is one of the reasons I am so proud to be a Democrat.. we grow.. its an amazing thing to be part of that process even on the local level of moving a party towards its better angels as it were..

[surrealAmerican]

35. Jackson, really?

It's kind of hard to imagine any of the twentieth or twenty-first century Democrats getting along with him - or vice-versa. The party has changed a lot over the years.

[tavernier]

36. Ask me about my Latvian family

who still see FDR as the devil who gave away the Baltics to Stalin at Yalta. I am the dark democrat of the family, because that sin will never be erased in those countries.

[Peacetrain]

38. Each politician is a product of his era.. and they all make huge mistakes..

these are human beings who have to work within the framework of their time period, how they were raised etc.. the thing that always makes me so proud, is how we keep moving forward..there are angels and demons in the party historically.. but with FDR forward, they really started to move in a completely different direction.. and they still did huge screw-ups when you look back through the prism of time.. and it is sad to see how the republicans have gone backwards instead of moving forwards..

[whathehell]

44. Heard the same thing from a friend of Estonian descent..

[Cha]

39. Mahalo Peacetrain.. we have an Amazing Amount to be proud of.. The Gloaters and those whining

because they didn't have a reason to vote.. can continue to gloat and whine while the rest of carry the burden of our Democracy.

Here's something to make you feel good.. turnabout!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110226515

Sorry about Iowa

[Peacetrain]

47. Cha you would not believe what I just read on this thread

further up.. someone actually is pissing and moaning about each and every Democratic President (sad sad sad)..

The Republicans did a better job at getting the early voters in than we did , and that was before all the infor on how bad Ernst was for Social Security etc was playing in Braleys commericals..it was just a tough old go for Democrats everywhere.. but you know it was only a matter of time before they would jump on the early turnout bandwagon also.. so nothing is a cut in stone formula.. the next canidate will have to figure out their way in the system..

I feel so sorry for people who sit on a board called Democratic Underground and then refuse to get involved in the system .. and spend the rest of their time in a continual state of BITCH BITCH BITCH..

Yeah that works..

[Douglas Carpenter]

40. kick because this is just too good

[Douglas Carpenter]

41. If only George McGovern had been there

He would have lead America and the world into a more compassionate future. We would be living in country more socially just at home and more at peace with the world.

[Peacetrain]

48. I live on that Ia SD border.. and George McGovern

was such a wonderful wonderful man..

[Jamaal510]

42. K&R

[Skittles]

43. good old boy's club

[treestar]

45. Very cool

Jimmy Carter has his sweater on!

[Peacetrain]

49. I remember when he was turning down the thermostat at the White House..