Oh… and I keep forgetting to blog this…

Here’s today’s history thought. I’ve been working on some projects in American History, and as I was going through material on the Andrew Jackson era and the election of 1828, I couldn’t help but be reminded of–you guessed it–Bush. The author writes:

“Charges by Adams’s supporters that Jackson was an illiterate backwoodsman added to Jackson’s popular appeal by making him seem like an ordinary citizen. Jackson’s supporters portrayed the clash as one between the democracy of the country, on the one hand, and a lordly purse-proud aristocracy on the other. Jackson, they said, was the common man incarnate, his mind unclouded by learning, his morals simple and true, his will fierce and resolute. In contrast, Jackson’s men represented Adams as an aristocrat, a dry scholar whose learning obscured the truth, a man who could write but not fight. Much of this, of course, was wild exaggeration. Jackson was a wealthy planter, not a simple frontiersman. But it was what people wanted to hear.”

I wonder if the author consciously wrote it that way to draw that parallel.

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