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This is not the craziest US presidential election

04 Monday Jan 2021

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Some history to put the current US presidential election into perspective. Short take, things were much worse a couple of times in history.

For nearly two decades in the middle of the 19th century, Americans had spectacularly failed to settle any presidential election without resorting to military force. In 1860, the South seceded rather than accept the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. In 1864, 1868, and 1872, as C. Vann Woodward observes in his classic study, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction, “the election had turned in the last analysis on the employment of military force, or the threat of it … In the phraseology of the seventies, the question was, had American politics become permanently ‘Mexicanized’ since 1860?”

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/when-american-democracy-was-worse/

And in 1800, Thomas Jefferson, who was then vice president and therefore in charge of electoral vote counting, won the presidential election with his treatment of (yes this is true) Georgia’s electoral votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1800_United_States_presidential_election#cite_note-Jefferson_counts-15 and https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/03/how-jefferson-counted-himself-in/302888/

Feel any better now? 🙂

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Largest Obama Rally – Berlin, Germany

26 Saturday Jul 2008

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama-berlin_dorning_25jul25,0,350961.story

In Berlin, a call to renew bonds — chicagotribune.com via kwout

Obama drew his largest crowd ever – larger by 300% – in Berlin, Germany. Didn’t the grandparents of these folks elect Adolf Hitler in 1930 ?

Of course Germans don’t get a vote in our election. And perhaps the Germans’ taste in leaders has improved. But in my mind I hear the theme from the old Twilight Zone television show …

Obama Discovers America – His Country

10 Thursday Jul 2008

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/us/politics/10obama.html?em&ex=1215835200&en=2143e94a6212149d&ei=5087%0A

Obama Is Going Places He Has Never Seen Before – NYTimes.com via kwout

Food for thought: Obama is a tourist in his own country. Seems he knows as little about us as we know about him. Funny. Or scary if this guys gets elected.

Next President and Supreme Court

21 Saturday Jun 2008

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/06/21/20080621mccain-court0621.html

Next president could reshape Supreme Court via kwout

Nightmare: Supreme Court Justice Hillary Clinton. Think about that for a moment, but not right after eating.

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