{"id":24535,"date":"2014-09-29T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24535"},"modified":"2014-09-28T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T14:23:03","slug":"qotd-presidential-elections-and-personal-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/29\/qotd-presidential-elections-and-personal-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Presidential elections and personal attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the hotly contested election of 1828, supporters of John Quincy Adams called Andrew Jackson a \u201cslave-trading, gambling, brawling murderer.\u201d Mac McClelland, Ten Most Awesome<br \/>\nPresidential Mudslinging Moves Ever, <em>Mother Jones<\/em>, (October 31, 2008).<sup>11<\/sup><br \/>\nJackson\u2019s supporters responded by accusing Adams of having premarital sex with his wife and playing the role of a pimp in securing a prostitute for Czar Alexander I. <em>Id<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>During Thomas Jefferson\u2019s presidency, James T. Callender, a pamphleteer and \u201cscandalmonger,\u201d<br \/>\nalleged that Jefferson had fathered numerous children with his slave Sally Hemings.<sup>12<\/sup><br \/>\nCallender\u2019s allegations would feature prominently in the election of 1804, but it wasn\u2019t until<br \/>\nnearly two centuries later that the allegations were substantially confirmed.<sup>13<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>More recently, we\u2019ve had discussions of draft-dodging, Swift Boats, and lying about birthplaces<sup>14<\/sup> &mdash; not to mention the assorted infidelities that are a political staple. <\/p>\n<p>11. Available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2008\/10\/ten-most-awesome-presidential-mudslinging-moves-ever\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2008\/10\/ten-most-awesome-presidential-mudslinging-moves-ever<\/a>.<br \/>\n12. Monticello.org, <em>James Callender<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/research-and-collections\/james-callender\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/research-and-collections\/james-callender<\/a>.<br \/>\n13. Monticello.org, <em>Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/plantation-and-slavery\/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/plantation-and-slavery\/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account<\/a>.<br \/>\n14. While President Obama isn\u2019t from Kenya, he is a Keynesian \u2014 so you can see where the confusion arises. <\/p>\n<p>Ilya Shapiro and P.J. O&#8217;Rourke, <a href=\"http:\/\/object.cato.org\/sites\/cato.org\/files\/pubs\/pdf\/sba-list-merits-filed-brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BRIEF OF <em>AMICI CURIAE<\/em> CATO INSTITUTE AND P.J. O\u2019ROURKE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS, <em>Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus<\/em><\/a> [PDF], 2014-02-28<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the hotly contested election of 1828, supporters of John Quincy Adams called Andrew Jackson a \u201cslave-trading, gambling, brawling murderer.\u201d Mac McClelland, Ten Most Awesome Presidential Mudslinging Moves Ever, Mother Jones, (October 31, 2008).11 Jackson\u2019s supporters responded by accusing Adams of having premarital sex with his wife and playing the role of a pimp in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,57,53,41,13],"tags":[158,413,38],"class_list":["post-24535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humour","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-scandal","tag-thomasjefferson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6nJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24538,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24535\/revisions\/24538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}