Why does President Obama hate President Rutherford B. Hayes so, so much? Our Kenyan Overlord slammed the beloved Ohio beardocrat today for supposedly dismissing the hot new invention of his time, the telephone. That idiot hated the telephone like the dickens, Obama said, maybe. But what if Obama is wrong? What if Rutherford B. Hayes loved telephones? What if this
My Daddy taught me to shave with a straight razor. It's impossible to not cut yourself all up.
The biggest, problem, however, is learning how to sharpen the damn thing. If you think sharpening a knife in Boy Scouts was tough, try a razor. It's just too hard. So, folks just gave up and didn't do it.
I completely agree with you that keeping the peace in the South - and keeping the Black folks from being reinslaved - was very important. No doubt they needed to be protected.
I was addressing thie issue of reconcilitation.
Like Mr. Miyagi said - "Balance."
Reconstruction was a horrible mess. Grinding the South wasn't "with malice towards none, and with charity for all."
The mid-19th century was rampant, unregulated capitalism. Contractors sold the army wooden hams and paper shoes and "gunpowder" that was nothing but charcoal.
Scalawags and carpetbaggers saw a quick buck, and plundered the South. Remember, Reconstruction went on almost three times as long as the Civil War, with miserable graft, corruption, and massive theft.
A Marshall Plan to actually rebuild the South would have made a huge difference. And the Panic of 1873 certainly didn't help.
Once the North made the War about freeing the slaves, it was inevitable the Black folks would be blamed for the loss once the War was over. Former slaves needed protection, education, and the opportunity they deserved. You are so right - it was a terrible waste, and we all would be so much better off today if Lincoln had lived and Reconstruction had actually reconstructed something.
Perhaps the North won the War. No question our Nation lost the peace.
There is an entire chapter in John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s "Profiles in Courage" about Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar and his single vote to support the decision of the Electoral Commission.
They don't make 'em like they used to!
Over the next few years, as his dinner was interrupted almost every night by solicitation calls from fake cancer charities and bogus law enforcement organizations, President Hayes' enthusiasm for the telephone waned a wee bit.
My Daddy taught me to shave with a straight razor. It's impossible to not cut yourself all up.
The biggest, problem, however, is learning how to sharpen the damn thing. If you think sharpening a knife in Boy Scouts was tough, try a razor. It's just too hard. So, folks just gave up and didn't do it.
Apparently Harrison was quite the drinker.
Hard cider and all that.
Nope. Baconzgood's post about the first time the phone rang in 60 years is money in the bank.
glamourdammerung:
I completely agree with you that keeping the peace in the South - and keeping the Black folks from being reinslaved - was very important. No doubt they needed to be protected.
I was addressing thie issue of reconcilitation.
Like Mr. Miyagi said - "Balance."
Smitros:
I wasn't until I read richmx2's comment, below, that I got yours.
Reconstruction was a horrible mess. Grinding the South wasn't "with malice towards none, and with charity for all."
The mid-19th century was rampant, unregulated capitalism. Contractors sold the army wooden hams and paper shoes and "gunpowder" that was nothing but charcoal.
Scalawags and carpetbaggers saw a quick buck, and plundered the South. Remember, Reconstruction went on almost three times as long as the Civil War, with miserable graft, corruption, and massive theft.
A Marshall Plan to actually rebuild the South would have made a huge difference. And the Panic of 1873 certainly didn't help.
Once the North made the War about freeing the slaves, it was inevitable the Black folks would be blamed for the loss once the War was over. Former slaves needed protection, education, and the opportunity they deserved. You are so right - it was a terrible waste, and we all would be so much better off today if Lincoln had lived and Reconstruction had actually reconstructed something.
Perhaps the North won the War. No question our Nation lost the peace.
we can still make fun of millard fillmore though right?
Schmannity:
There is an entire chapter in John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s "Profiles in Courage" about Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar and his single vote to support the decision of the Electoral Commission.
They don't make 'em like they used to!
Over the next few years, as his dinner was interrupted almost every night by solicitation calls from fake cancer charities and bogus law enforcement organizations, President Hayes' enthusiasm for the telephone waned a wee bit.
Bzg:
Nothing like going straight to an impartial source. Just what the Hell did they think the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center would say?
What's next? Call the George W. Bush Presidential Library and ask if the Iraq War was a bigass mistake?
Unless it's to ask "Is your refrigerator running?"
edgydrifter:
Shaving back in the day was a bitch. Why do you think so many of those Civil War dudes had beards?
It took King Gillette to invent the safety razor and give America a clean face.
Another great one from Ohio, the self-proclaimed "Cradle of Presidents."
The problem is that, unlike Virginia, the ones from Ohio didn't actually turn out very well.
Not that California has anything to brag about, of course.
FTW!!! That one cracked me up!
Was it the same one old Rutherford himself used?
LH:
Somebody beat me to the Prince Albert wheeze and I used the refrigerator gag above, so I got nothin'.