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zipher Wrote: Oct 03, 2012 9:26 PM

"Andrew Jackson had a pretty clear cut idea about America's enemies: kill them," declared Newt Gingrich to wild applause. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/17/thedcs-jamie-weinstein-newt-delivers-potentially-game-changing-performance/#ixzz1jhen0MUl

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zipher Wrote: Oct 03, 2012 9:27 PM

"The killing, enslavement, and land theft had begun with the arrival of the Europeans. But it may have reached its nadir when it became federal policy under President (Andrew) Jackson."

"In one of the saddest episodes of our brief history, men, women, and children were taken from their land, herded into makeshift forts with minimal facilities and food, then forced to march a thousand miles. The Cherokee were forcibly marched in early fall and arrived in Oklahoma during the brutal winter of 1838-39. About 4000 Cherokee died as a result of the removal."

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Kuwull Wrote: Oct 03, 2012 11:22 PM

So go live somewhere phuquing else.

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Michael3116 Wrote: Oct 05, 2012 7:21 PM

You don't know much about world history do you. This isn't the only nation to carry out such practices in fact that brutal march happened at all was because the US didn't unlike every other nation on earth slaughter the vanquished out of hand. Had the practices that were common in the rest of the world at the time occurred it wouldn't have been 4000 Cherokee that died it would have been all Cherokee under government control. Don't view actions through narrow vision look at the rest of the world and see that our nation was changing not just ourselves but the rest of the world in the process.

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Rubio: Obama's 2008 Promises Almost Laughable

DENVER- During a pre-debate conference call Wednesday, Florida Senator Marco Rubio told bloggers President Obama's policies have been devastating to the middle class and slammed "laughable" promises Obama made in 2008 standing before Greek columns in Denver.

“You read some of those promises now and they’re almost laughable,” Rubio said. "How about on taxes, he's proposing a middle class tax increase, his budget proves it."

Banking off of Joe Biden's comments yesterday about the middle class being buried in the past four years, Rubio said we will see an argument tonight from Mitt Romney about how big government...

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