Boo hoo hoo. I'm being mistreated.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

I've rerun this a bunch of times. Here we go again.

Jefferson was fortunate enough to live in a time of complete civility in politics, so unlike today.

Well, maybe not.

Let me know when it gets to this level.

Here's a message for everyone who feel politics used to be more civil in the good old days. No, it wasn't. I post this picture every time someone at DU says that politics has hit a new low.

Jefferson was one of the most detested presidents ever. People just loathed him.

He was fortunate enough to live in a time of complete civility in politics, so unlike today.

Thomas Jefferson - The West

The prairie dog sickened at the sting of the hornet or a diplomatic puppet exhibiting his deceptions

James Akin's earliest-known signed cartoon, "The Prairie Dog" is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804. Jefferson, as a scrawny dog, is stung by a hornet with Napoleon's head into coughing up "Two Millions" in gold coins, (the secret appropriation Jefferson sought from Congress for the purchase). On the right dances a man (possibly a French diplomat) with orders from French minister Talleyrand in his pocket and maps of East Florida and West Florida in his hand. He says, "A gull for the People."

It's No Laughing Matter - Analyzing Political Cartoons

[Thomas Hurt]

1. What little I have read on the kind of thing...

No President has been spared being accused of all sorts of immoral and criminals acts, with the possible exception of Washington.

[hlthe2b]

2. Good post. I bemoan our lack of knowledge of history, interest in researching the past, and

thus the inability to provide context nor fail to learn from past mistakes.

(as my sigline makes clear, this is very important to me)

[saidsimplesimon]

4. American History,

in books and documents written by our Revolutionary leaders, is diluted beyond recognition in some public and private school text books. My comment states my agreement that history is very important.

[Cartoonist]

3. He must have gone apoplectic over the Louisiana Purchase

I had to shake my head then put it in my palm after hearing some wingnut, living in Alaska, complain about government spending.

[TygrBright]

5. Good reminder. Also, for anyone who thinks we live in an unprecedented era of election cheating...

...I recommend you study some of the history of electoral fraud, corruption and violence.

Google:

Bleeding Kansas election
Pineapple Primary
Pendergast Bloody Tuesday
Wasco County election poisoning
Bloody Monday Louisville
Broderick's vigilantes
Organized crime and the 1960 Election (Hoffa vs Giancana)
"The Vote That Failed"

...and of course "Tammany Hall", "Chicago Machine", "Huey P. Long" and so many, many more.

Technology is just providing new ways for American would-be power brokers to pursue a long tradition of electoral chicanery.

wearily,
Bright

[Adsos Letter]

6. The election of 1800

One of the nastier elections in our history. Jefferson was openly accused of being the Antichrist, among other things.
Great book on the subject:

A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign.

(Sorry, can’t post the link from my phone)