{"id":14814,"date":"2015-08-06T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14814"},"modified":"2015-08-06T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:27:43","slug":"so-we-dont-get-to-dress-up-as-jefferson-or-jackson-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/08\/06\/so-we-dont-get-to-dress-up-as-jefferson-or-jackson-any-more\/","title":{"rendered":"so… we don’t get to dress up as Jefferson or Jackson any more?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jefferson – Jackson dinners are disappearing from the Democratic arsenal of fund-raising<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (It’s worth noting that in some past epoch, the Jefferson – Jackson dinners in southern states were frequently paired with a third name — that of a bigtime political governor heavy-weight with huge stature in state politics of … er… keeping segregation alive and running.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I see that Mississippi gets them now paired with Fanny Lou Hamer<\/a> — parties evolve.)<\/p>\n

Interesting argument on keeping the names Jefferson and Jackson as, despite everything, historical figures worth preserving who<\/a>… after all… did found the political party in two parts.\u00c2\u00a0 (Though, on that equation, it really should be the Van Buren Dinner.)<\/p>\n

I’m having trouble finding it, and I am pretty sure I noted it on my blog when it happened, and it was not headline news by any stretch but once upon a time (I may be the only person anywhere who thought it worth noting) — I caught Barack Obama calling Andrew Jackson one of our nation’s “great presidents”.\u00c2\u00a0 Depends on criteria, as always — some call him one of the worst for, you know, Trail of Tears…<\/p>\n

The big problem might lie in the Republican Party making some deal on the dumping of Jefferson, who… you know, after all, is quite popular, and was a “Republican” as against the “Federalist” (before Van Buren and Jackson came and turned their wares to a Demcoratic Party).\u00c2\u00a0 Though, here, I spotted a Natinal Review article claiming that the idea to nix Hamilton for a portrait on our currency in favor of a “woman to be named” is in a grand Democratic Party tradition, so they’re still straddling Jefferson to the Democrats after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jefferson – Jackson dinners are disappearing from the Democratic arsenal of fund-raising.\u00c2\u00a0 (It’s worth noting that in some past epoch, the Jefferson – Jackson dinners in southern states were frequently paired with a third name — that of a bigtime political governor heavy-weight with huge stature in state politics of … er… keeping segregation alive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14815,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814\/revisions\/14815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}