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Re: Barack Obama the BIGOT
« Reply #25 on: August 06, 2012, 10:19:39 PM »
Jackson hated Indians the most.  He hated them so much he fought un-ordered battles against them that created hilarious diplomacy stuff for JQA. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson#First_Seminole_War 

I think that wiki article is a little too hard on Monroe and a little too easy on Jackson.  There are different interpretations, but I generally choose to believe the credible side that is the funniest.  And that story is one of the funniest. 

Jackson invades Spanish territory and burns peoples' houses.  Spain is all "wtf?" JQA is like "Sry Spain, your fault."
yeah after reading on the subject its almost like the US got Spain to apologize for letting the US attack them.
THAT'S WHAT MAKES IT SO FUNNY!

I like to think that JQA was just like "wtf, Jackson?  What are you doing."  But in order to save face, JQA, being the foreign relations genius he was, took a gamble and it worked.
I can only imagine JQA telling the story later on and people reacting like this
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