tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313397.post116068314740800938..comments2023-10-31T05:50:45.478-07:00Comments on Reality Frame: Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Neo-conGlenn A. Primmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14759512203394453159noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313397.post-1163125169325377392006-11-09T18:19:00.000-08:002006-11-09T18:19:00.000-08:00Alex is a darling of the neo-cons, by their own ad...Alex is a darling of the neo-cons, by their own admission. For a critical view, see <A HREF="http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo64.html" REL="nofollow">here.</A><BR/><BR/>The modern Federalist Society (a neoconservative hotbed of ultranationalist intrigue and of which Judge Roberts is a past member) takes its name from Hamilton's Federalist Papers, of course.<BR/><BR/>They were all Glenn A. Primmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14759512203394453159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313397.post-1163106344756679642006-11-09T13:05:00.000-08:002006-11-09T13:05:00.000-08:00Jefferson was an "eqalitarian"???LOL! Maybe on pap...Jefferson was an "eqalitarian"???LOL! Maybe on paper he was but in actuality he was the biggest elitist patrician there was. Need I remind that TJ bought and sold slaves while Hamilton wanted the instition abolished.<BR/><BR/>Hamilton was far from being an empire builder. He mused attacking S. Florida when it looked as if war with France was imminent(Spain was then in alliance with France) and heRedoubt10https://www.blogger.com/profile/12282362749212355599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313397.post-1163040496749901372006-11-08T18:48:00.000-08:002006-11-08T18:48:00.000-08:00To call Hamilton a nationalist is to misapprehend ...To call Hamilton a nationalist is to misapprehend how the people of the time understood countries and empire.<BR/><BR/>Nations as such did not exist, nor were they contemplated. The colonial Americans were not attempting to build a "nation' so much as they were trying to separate themselves from arbitrary power as represented by the British monarchy. In terms of how they thought of themselves, Glenn A. Primmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14759512203394453159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313397.post-1162815447369771312006-11-06T04:17:00.000-08:002006-11-06T04:17:00.000-08:00You forget that Hamilton ghosted Geo. Washington's...You forget that Hamilton ghosted Geo. Washington's 'Farewell Address" - hardly a neocon tract. Hamilton was a nationalist, and not a precurser for this empire/ neo-imperialist wave today.<BR/><BR/>Look to the liberals favorite two-Presidents, Jefferson and Wilson as they Founding Fathers of neoconservative/ libertarianism - not Hamilton.Redoubt10https://www.blogger.com/profile/12282362749212355599noreply@blogger.com