Our amazing Founding Fathers

[Richard]

For all my life I have been in awe of the prescience of the Founding Fathers of this country. Literally I thought they thought of everything.

Until today...walking out of a hardware store I finally realized that most people exist in a coma.

So perhaps the Founding Fathers got it wrong...elgibility to vote should not be based on age but on capability for cognitive thought.

 

[ScottM]

BTW I hope you are watching John Adams on HBO. AMAZING thus far!

 

[Richard]

I know, the 15th Amendment came about 100 yrs later....

 

[Richard]

BTW I hope you are watching John Adams in HBO. AMAZING thus far!

Negative. But I will look for it. I don't even know if we get HBO.

 

[James_Dean]

BTW I hope you are watching John Adams on HBO. AMAZING thus far!

I watched the first two segments last night. Why can't we have leaders like that anymore? Just one.

James Dean

 

[ScottM]

I watched the first two segments last night. Why can't we have leaders like that anymore? Just one.

James Dean

I think we have a once in a generation leader running for office right now.

 

[gprellwitz]

I don't get HBO, but I read the McCullough book upon which it's based (http://www.amazon.com/John-Adams-Da...bs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205807601&sr=8-2). That and his 1776 are both very good!

 

[KennyFlys]

I think we have a once in a generation leader running for office right now.

Who? I'm at a disadvantage with my current schedule... I've not seen a TV beside the one in the FBO in over a week!

 

[mikea]

BTW I hope you are watching John Adams on HBO. AMAZING thus far!

Yeah. It's good. "John Adams" delayed me cancelling HBO after "The Wire" ended.

One take has Jefferson being the be all and end all, while this one has him as a wallflower....Listening to Jefferson on slavery knowing he had children with his slave.

I vowed to read up some more.

 

[Gerhardt]

I've read the book a couple of times. Watched the show when it came out, sitting on the edge of my chair. Watching it again for the first time in ten years and would rank the show as one of the best ever made.

 

[kayoh190]

Holy thread necro!

 

[MooneyDriver78]

11 1/2 years old, is that a record?


Tom

 

[Gerhardt]

Man, now I feel bad. Didn't see the need to start a new thread, but man, the show is good.

 

[kayoh190]

Man, now I feel bad. Didn't see the need to start a new thread, but man, the show is good.

No biggie - it IS a good show!

 

[Unit74]

I reported the OP for a violation of the rules...... Even though there wernt' any rulz when he posted that.

 

[SkyDog58]

I reported the OP for a violation of the rules...... Even though there wernt' any rulz when he posted that.

Oh, I'm sure there were rules back then. They were probably just applied differently.

 

[Palmpilot]

Oh, I'm sure there were rules back then. They were probably just applied differently.

When this thread was started, there was section for political and religious discussions (aka "Spin Zone") which was nuked a few years ago. Not sure why this thread didn't get moved there, but maybe it was because it didn't amount to much.

 

[EdFred]

Anyone know what happened to Richard?

 

[RyanB]

Anyone know what happened to Richard?

I would also like to know...

@ScottM too.

 

[Palmpilot]

Anyone know what happened to Richard?

It says he was last seen in 2015. Maybe he was one of the ones who left when the Spin Zone was eliminated.