Andrew Jackson, Buchananite hero

Pat defends the man and his presidency.

Was Jackson responsible for the Cherokees’ “Trail of Tears”? 

Yes. 

And Harry Truman did Hiroshima, and Winston Churchill did Dresden.

Great men are rarely good men.

Quite so.

Think of Stalin, Mao, and even Hitler.

Should those three be on the currency, do you think, of today's Russia, China, and Germany?

As to Stalin and Hitler, Pat might actually see that as appropriate.

Hitler completed the dream of German national unification.

Stalin saved Russia from Hitler and, to be fair, under his leadership Russia won World War Two.

Not sure about Mao.

He is anyway not happy.

Added up, while dishonoring Andrew Jackson, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is putting on the U.S. currency six women—three white, three African-American—and [Martin Luther] King. 

No Catholics, no conservatives, no Hispanics, no white males were apparently even considered.

This is affirmative action raised to fanaticism, a celebration of President Obama’s views and values, and a recasting of our currency to make Obama’s constituents happy at the expense of America’s greatest heroes and historic truth.

Leftist role models for American kids now take precedence over the history of our Republic in those we honor.

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In the dystopian novel, 1984, Winston Smith labors in the Ministry of Truth, dropping down the “memory hole” stories that must be rewritten to re-indoctrinate the party and proles in the new history, as determined by Big Brother. 

Jack Lew would have fit right in there.

He worships aspects and parts of the past that we do not.

Major figures of the American past that he wants to celebrate we cannot.

Our America is not his and we and he neither praise nor blame the same things in or about America today.

We do not venerate the same past.

Nor do we hope for the same future.